Cisco Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cisco
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 75 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -17
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 73 34 28
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.75% 2.15% 1.34%
As % of the Vendors category 9.43% 4.22% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 58 14 15
10th Percentile - £35,105 £49,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,800 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.15% +12.50% +17.68%
75th Percentile £66,875 £90,000 -
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £46,600 £32,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +43.38% -43.48% +27.78%

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 774 806 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.54% 51.08% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 491 303 334
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £34,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,504
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.90% -0.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,269 £89,000 £81,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £36,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +30.14% -23.16% -5.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Cisco job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cisco
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in West Yorkshire

Cisco
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Leeds -22 52 £45,000 -47.06% 23
Bradford +4 9 £75,000 +87.97% 2
Wakefield - 8 £65,000 - 5
Huddersfield - 4 £46,600 - 1
Cisco
Yorkshire

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.07%) SharePoint
2 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) Azure
2 15 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.07%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.96%) Mimecast
5 3 (4.11%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.11%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) AWS
6 2 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.37%) IaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) WAN
2 18 (24.66%) Firewall
3 17 (23.29%) LAN
4 10 (13.70%) SD-WAN
4 10 (13.70%) Wireless
5 8 (10.96%) Network Security
6 6 (8.22%) DNS
7 5 (6.85%) BGP
7 5 (6.85%) DHCP
7 5 (6.85%) OSPF
7 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (4.11%) MPLS
8 3 (4.11%) NAS
8 3 (4.11%) SAN
8 3 (4.11%) VXLAN
9 2 (2.74%) CTI
9 2 (2.74%) VLAN
9 2 (2.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
General
1 27 (36.99%) Organisational Skills
2 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Finance
5 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Law
5 1 (1.37%) Legal
5 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Technical Manager
2 13 (17.81%) Network Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Architect
4 8 (10.96%) Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) Network Consultant
5 7 (9.59%) Network Architect
6 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) IT Support
8 4 (5.48%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.88%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.74%) IVR
5 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.18%) Windows
1 14 (19.18%) Windows Server
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (5.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.37%) Linux
4 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) CRM
2 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (12.33%) User Experience
5 8 (10.96%) Network Design
6 7 (9.59%) Service Delivery
7 6 (8.22%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (8.22%) Migration
8 5 (6.85%) High Availability
8 5 (6.85%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.85%) Information Security
8 5 (6.85%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
9 4 (5.48%) Coaching
9 4 (5.48%) Email Management
9 4 (5.48%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.48%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.48%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.48%) SQL
3 3 (4.11%) Python
4 2 (2.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (15.07%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.96%) CCNA
3 8 (10.96%) Network+ Certification
4 7 (9.59%) CCNP
5 4 (5.48%) CCIE
5 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (20.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.48%) VxRail
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (4.11%) Puppet
3 3 (4.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (36.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.44%) Meraki
3 11 (15.07%) VMware
4 8 (10.96%) ForeScout
4 8 (10.96%) Fortinet
5 7 (9.59%) Juniper
6 5 (6.85%) iManage
7 4 (5.48%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.11%) Commvault
8 3 (4.11%) Dell
8 3 (4.11%) Google
8 3 (4.11%) HP
8 3 (4.11%) Tenable
8 3 (4.11%) Veeam
8 3 (4.11%) Zerto
9 2 (2.74%) Aruba
9 2 (2.74%) Avaya
9 2 (2.74%) Genesys
9 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds