Hybrid/Remote Cisco Network Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 423 453
Rank change year-on-year +27 +30 +274
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 9 35 41
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.057% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 32 34
10th Percentile £60,500 £47,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £94,625 £72,000
UK median annual salary £55,250 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +23.81% -

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 remote/hybrid work 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 14,947 19,187 20,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 96.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 11,981 17,134
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,768 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Network Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Network Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cisco Network Engineer job vacancies

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Network Engineer over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Cisco Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Cisco Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
3 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 6 (66.67%) Meraki
3 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
4 5 (55.56%) BGP
4 5 (55.56%) Network Security
4 5 (55.56%) OSPF
4 5 (55.56%) SD-WAN
4 5 (55.56%) WAN
5 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (44.44%) CCNP
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (44.44%) DHCP
5 4 (44.44%) DNS
5 4 (44.44%) Firmware
5 4 (44.44%) FortiGate
5 4 (44.44%) Fortinet
5 4 (44.44%) IPsec
5 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
5 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Change Control
6 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 3 (33.33%) Dell
6 3 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 5 (55.56%) BGP
3 5 (55.56%) Network Security
3 5 (55.56%) OSPF
3 5 (55.56%) SD-WAN
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
4 4 (44.44%) DHCP
4 4 (44.44%) DNS
4 4 (44.44%) IPsec
4 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (33.33%) VLAN
5 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (22.22%) MPLS
7 1 (11.11%) LAN
7 1 (11.11%) PBX
7 1 (11.11%) VoIP
7 1 (11.11%) WLAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Control
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Value Proposition
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) FortiGate
2 3 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Meraki
2 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (44.44%) Fortinet
3 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
4 3 (33.33%) Dell
4 3 (33.33%) VMware
4 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
5 2 (22.22%) F5
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) Citrix
6 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (11.11%) HP
6 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
12 hybrid/remote Cisco Network Engineer jobs