Cisco Network Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 568 630
Rank change year-on-year +191 +62 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 20 24 43
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.071% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.074% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 43
10th Percentile £57,625 £41,250 £40,630
25th Percentile £58,750 £44,550 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £51,300 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% -10.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £99,500 £75,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Cisco Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cisco Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Network Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Network Engineer.

Cisco Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cisco Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 18 (90.00%) Firewall
3 14 (70.00%) BGP
3 14 (70.00%) Data Centre
4 13 (65.00%) SD-WAN
5 12 (60.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (60.00%) VPN
6 10 (50.00%) Change Management
7 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
7 9 (45.00%) LAN
7 9 (45.00%) WAN
8 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (40.00%) OSPF
8 8 (40.00%) Azure
9 7 (35.00%) CCNP
9 7 (35.00%) WLAN
9 7 (35.00%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (25.00%) Meraki
11 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
12 4 (20.00%) Ansible
12 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
12 4 (20.00%) 802.1X
12 4 (20.00%) Terraform
12 4 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (20.00%) BIG-IP

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 14 (70.00%) BGP
3 13 (65.00%) SD-WAN
4 12 (60.00%) VPN
5 9 (45.00%) LAN
5 9 (45.00%) WAN
6 8 (40.00%) OSPF
7 7 (35.00%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (35.00%) WLAN
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (20.00%) BIG-IP
9 4 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (20.00%) IPsec
9 4 (20.00%) MPLS
9 4 (20.00%) TACACS
9 4 (20.00%) Wireless
10 3 (15.00%) NetScaler
10 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (5.00%) Banking
1 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Change Management
2 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (15.00%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.00%) High Availability
5 1 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (35.00%) CCNP
3 4 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (25.00%) Meraki
5 4 (20.00%) F5
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (15.00%) Citrix
6 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (15.00%) Infoblox
6 3 (15.00%) Juniper
6 3 (15.00%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (10.00%) VMware
8 1 (5.00%) Arista
8 1 (5.00%) HP