IOS XR Job Trends

Cisco IOS XR
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IOS XR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 - 705
Rank change year-on-year - - +306
Permanent jobs citing IOS XR 1 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.010% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45,800
25th Percentile - - £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.48%
75th Percentile - - £58,000
90th Percentile - - £58,600
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IOS XR falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,598 7,196 7,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 13.22% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 3,736 6,246
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IOS XR relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IOS XR job vacancy trend in the UK

IOS XR
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IOS XR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IOS XR

IOS XR
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IOS XR within the UK over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
London - 1 - - 222
England - 1 - - 276
Work from Home - 1 - - 276

IOS XR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Associate Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco