Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 826 878 1041
Rank change year-on-year +52 +163 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 71 108 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67 89 127
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £76,500 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,295 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.60% -6.67% +17.32%

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 91,941 98,122 146,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.64% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 66,457 61,295 85,769
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,123 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - +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 Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +79 71 £50,000 -9.09% 8
UK excluding London +24 42 £44,295 -9.60% 5
London +131 29 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Work from Home +97 24 £51,300 -10.78% 5
West Midlands +53 20 £49,000 +3.43%
Midlands +32 20 £49,000 -1.89%
North of England +41 15 £40,000 -20.00% 2
North West +19 14 £40,000 -31.03% 1
South East +18 5 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire +91 1 £30,250 - 1
East of England +30 1 £50,000 -4.76%
South West -3 1 £54,000 +13.68% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 2024, Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (57.75%) WAN
3 39 (54.93%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (54.93%) Firewall
4 32 (45.07%) LAN
5 30 (42.25%) TCP/IP
6 28 (39.44%) CCNA
7 25 (35.21%) Juniper
7 25 (35.21%) MPLS
8 22 (30.99%) BGP
8 22 (30.99%) Palo Alto
9 21 (29.58%) Finance
10 20 (28.17%) OSPF
10 20 (28.17%) SD-WAN
11 19 (26.76%) DHCP
11 19 (26.76%) Wireless
12 17 (23.94%) CheckPoint
13 16 (22.54%) Ethernet
13 16 (22.54%) Fortinet
13 16 (22.54%) AWS
14 15 (21.13%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (21.13%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (19.72%) Internet
15 14 (19.72%) DevOps
16 13 (18.31%) Ruckus Wireless
16 13 (18.31%) Vyatta
16 13 (18.31%) DSL
16 13 (18.31%) Nokia
16 13 (18.31%) JNCIA
16 13 (18.31%) VyOS

Cisco Network 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 (9.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) AWS
2 5 (7.04%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.41%) IaaS
4 1 (1.41%) PaaS
4 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (57.75%) WAN
2 39 (54.93%) Firewall
3 32 (45.07%) LAN
4 30 (42.25%) TCP/IP
5 25 (35.21%) MPLS
6 22 (30.99%) BGP
7 20 (28.17%) OSPF
7 20 (28.17%) SD-WAN
8 19 (26.76%) DHCP
8 19 (26.76%) Wireless
9 16 (22.54%) Ethernet
10 15 (21.13%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (21.13%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (19.72%) Internet
12 13 (18.31%) DSL
13 11 (15.49%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (15.49%) Network Security
14 10 (14.08%) VPN
15 7 (9.86%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (8.45%) DNS
General
1 21 (29.58%) Finance
2 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Law
4 2 (2.82%) Banking
4 2 (2.82%) Front Office
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 10 (14.08%) Hedge funds
3 7 (9.86%) PKI
4 4 (5.63%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) VyOS
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
2 10 (14.08%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.63%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.72%) DevOps
2 13 (18.31%) Customer Service
3 12 (16.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (15.49%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (12.68%) Change Control
5 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (11.27%) Change Management
7 7 (9.86%) Migration
8 6 (8.45%) Network Design
8 6 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.63%) Load Balancing
9 4 (5.63%) Process Improvement
9 4 (5.63%) Project Management
9 4 (5.63%) Software Deployment
9 4 (5.63%) Time Management
10 3 (4.23%) Asset Management
10 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (4.23%) Low Latency
10 3 (4.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.86%) C#
2 7 (9.86%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 39 (54.93%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (39.44%) CCNA
3 13 (18.31%) JNCIA
4 7 (9.86%) CCIE
4 7 (9.86%) CCNP
5 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Cisco CUCM
1 7 (9.86%) Stealthwatch
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (35.21%) Juniper
3 22 (30.99%) Palo Alto
4 17 (23.94%) CheckPoint
5 16 (22.54%) Fortinet
6 13 (18.31%) Nokia
6 13 (18.31%) Ruckus Wireless
6 13 (18.31%) Vyatta
7 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
8 10 (14.08%) VMware
9 7 (9.86%) F5
9 7 (9.86%) SolarWinds
9 7 (9.86%) Splunk
10 4 (5.63%) Remedy
11 2 (2.82%) Meraki