Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £51,300 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 862 1001
Rank change year-on-year +49 +139 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 81 123 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 76 100 156
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,950 £31,413
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £80,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.27% -6.67% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer.

Salary trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 74 £50,000 -9.09% 11
UK excluding London +16 45 £42,500 -13.27% 8
Work from Home +90 30 £55,000 -4.35% 6
London +130 29 £75,000 +7.14% 3
West Midlands +49 19 £49,000 +23.27%
North of England +47 19 £40,000 -32.20% 4
Midlands +18 19 £49,000 +8.96%
North West +17 14 £40,000 -32.20% 2
Yorkshire +81 5 £35,000 -49.09% 2
South East +10 5 £55,000 +20.22% 3
East of England +29 1 £50,000 -4.76%
South West -15 1 £54,000 +13.68% 1

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Cisco Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (51.85%) WAN
3 40 (49.38%) Cisco Certification
3 40 (49.38%) Firewall
4 33 (40.74%) LAN
5 31 (38.27%) TCP/IP
6 29 (35.80%) CCNA
7 28 (34.57%) MPLS
8 27 (33.33%) Juniper
9 25 (30.86%) BGP
10 22 (27.16%) Palo Alto
11 21 (25.93%) Finance
12 20 (24.69%) OSPF
13 19 (23.46%) Wireless
13 19 (23.46%) SD-WAN
14 18 (22.22%) DHCP
15 17 (20.99%) DevOps
16 16 (19.75%) AWS
16 16 (19.75%) Fortinet
16 16 (19.75%) JNCIA
16 16 (19.75%) Ethernet
16 16 (19.75%) CheckPoint
16 16 (19.75%) VMware
17 15 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (17.28%) Disaster Recovery
18 14 (17.28%) Internet
18 14 (17.28%) Data Centre
19 13 (16.05%) VyOS
19 13 (16.05%) Ruckus Wireless
19 13 (16.05%) Vyatta

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.75%) AWS
2 8 (9.88%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.23%) GitHub
4 1 (1.23%) IaaS
4 1 (1.23%) PaaS
4 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (51.85%) WAN
2 40 (49.38%) Firewall
3 33 (40.74%) LAN
4 31 (38.27%) TCP/IP
5 28 (34.57%) MPLS
6 25 (30.86%) BGP
7 20 (24.69%) OSPF
8 19 (23.46%) SD-WAN
8 19 (23.46%) Wireless
9 18 (22.22%) DHCP
10 16 (19.75%) Ethernet
11 15 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (17.28%) Internet
13 13 (16.05%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (16.05%) DSL
13 13 (16.05%) Network Security
14 12 (14.81%) VPN
15 11 (13.58%) Cisco ISE
16 7 (8.64%) Cisco IOS
16 7 (8.64%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) JIRA
1 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (25.93%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Law
4 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.47%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Front Office
5 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.35%) Hedge funds
3 7 (8.64%) PKI
4 4 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.47%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) VyOS
2 9 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) DevOps
2 14 (17.28%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (16.05%) Customer Service
4 11 (13.58%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (12.35%) Change Management
6 9 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (11.11%) Migration
7 8 (9.88%) Change Control
8 6 (7.41%) Network Design
9 5 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.17%) Zero Trust
10 4 (4.94%) Business Continuity
10 4 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (4.94%) ITIL
10 4 (4.94%) Load Balancing
10 4 (4.94%) Process Improvement
10 4 (4.94%) Project Management
10 4 (4.94%) Roadmaps
10 4 (4.94%) Software Deployment
10 4 (4.94%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.64%) C#
2 7 (8.64%) SQL
3 5 (6.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (49.38%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (35.80%) CCNA
3 16 (19.75%) JNCIA
4 9 (11.11%) CCNP
5 7 (8.64%) CCIE
6 3 (3.70%) JNCIP
6 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Terraform
2 8 (9.88%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (8.64%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.47%) Ansible
4 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (33.33%) Juniper
3 22 (27.16%) Palo Alto
4 16 (19.75%) CheckPoint
4 16 (19.75%) Fortinet
4 16 (19.75%) VMware
5 13 (16.05%) Nokia
5 13 (16.05%) Ruckus Wireless
5 13 (16.05%) Vyatta
6 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
7 9 (11.11%) F5
8 8 (9.88%) SolarWinds
9 7 (8.64%) Splunk
10 4 (4.94%) Meraki
10 4 (4.94%) Remedy
10 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
11 3 (3.70%) NetApp
12 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
13 1 (1.23%) Commvault