Cisco Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 24 March 2025, 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
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 125 139
Rank change year-on-year -36 +14 +44
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 319 803 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.12% 2.50% 2.54%
As % of the Vendors category 4.79% 6.10% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 264 711 924
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,375 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,625 £78,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,663 13,166 18,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 44.18% 41.00% 39.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 10,118 12,329
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,178 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,430 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £78,382
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cisco salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Cisco salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (15.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) IIS
4 2 (0.63%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.63%) WordPress
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.63%) InDesign
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.94%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 165 (51.72%) Azure
2 96 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (16.61%) AWS
4 26 (8.15%) SaaS
5 25 (7.84%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 15 (4.70%) Mimecast
8 12 (3.76%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (2.51%) IaaS
10 8 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (2.51%) PaaS
11 7 (2.19%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.88%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.88%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.57%) GCP
14 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (45.45%) Firewall
2 109 (34.17%) WAN
3 84 (26.33%) LAN
4 61 (19.12%) VPN
5 50 (15.67%) SD-WAN
6 45 (14.11%) Network Security
7 43 (13.48%) BGP
8 40 (12.54%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (11.91%) OSPF
10 36 (11.29%) MPLS
11 35 (10.97%) DNS
12 34 (10.66%) Wireless
13 29 (9.09%) DHCP
14 25 (7.84%) TCP/IP
15 24 (7.52%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (7.52%) SAN
16 23 (7.21%) WLAN
17 22 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
17 22 (6.90%) Internet
18 21 (6.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.57%) Power BI
3 4 (1.25%) DB2
3 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.31%) MySQL
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.57%) JIRA
3 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 79 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.63%) Finance
3 31 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.96%) Manufacturing
6 15 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.45%) Retail
9 9 (2.82%) Banking
10 8 (2.51%) Automotive
10 8 (2.51%) Police
11 7 (2.19%) Local Government
11 7 (2.19%) Marketing
12 6 (1.88%) Law
13 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.25%) Welsh Language
15 2 (0.63%) Multimedia
16 1 (0.31%) Advertising
16 1 (0.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 76 (23.82%) Network Engineer
2 54 (16.93%) Senior
3 42 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (12.23%) Support Engineer
5 29 (9.09%) Architect
6 27 (8.46%) Cisco Engineer
6 27 (8.46%) Lead
7 22 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support
8 19 (5.96%) Senior Network Engineer
9 16 (5.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 16 (5.02%) Network Architect
9 16 (5.02%) Project Engineer
10 15 (4.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 15 (4.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 15 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) Desktop Support
11 13 (4.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) Network Manager
11 13 (4.08%) Project Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.63%) JSON
2 2 (0.63%) LDAP
2 2 (0.63%) Middleware
2 2 (0.63%) SAML
2 2 (0.63%) YAML
3 1 (0.31%) Kafka
3 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.94%) Data Centre
2 28 (8.78%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.08%) Replication
3 13 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.76%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.88%) Clustering
9 5 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.94%) PKI
11 3 (0.94%) Podcast
11 3 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (31.35%) Windows
2 52 (16.30%) Windows Server
3 38 (11.91%) Linux
4 21 (6.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (6.27%) Windows 10
6 19 (5.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.51%) AIX
8 6 (1.88%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.94%) Unix
11 2 (0.63%) Solaris
11 2 (0.63%) SUSE
11 2 (0.63%) VMS
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (26.33%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (17.55%) ITIL
3 51 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (12.85%) Mentoring
5 36 (11.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 33 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (9.40%) Network Design
8 28 (8.78%) Service Delivery
9 25 (7.84%) Change Management
9 25 (7.84%) Network Management
9 25 (7.84%) Project Delivery
10 24 (7.52%) Project Management
11 23 (7.21%) Roadmaps
12 22 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (6.90%) Customer Service
13 21 (6.58%) Line Management
14 19 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (5.64%) Containerisation
16 17 (5.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.97%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.39%) SQL
3 8 (2.51%) Python
4 3 (0.94%) Bash
5 2 (0.63%) Java
6 1 (0.31%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 96 (30.09%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (17.87%) CCNP
3 49 (15.36%) CCNA
4 29 (9.09%) Degree
5 27 (8.46%) Security Cleared
6 17 (5.33%) CCIE
7 15 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.70%) SC Cleared
8 14 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (4.08%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.08%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.51%) IBM AIX Certification
11 7 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.88%) CISSP
12 6 (1.88%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.57%) MCSE
13 5 (1.57%) RHCA
13 5 (1.57%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.52%) SLA
2 12 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.45%) NIST
4 9 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 86 (26.96%) Active Directory
2 79 (24.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (11.60%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.96%) vSphere
5 13 (4.08%) XenApp
6 11 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.51%) Firmware
8 5 (1.57%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.63%) KVM
10 2 (0.63%) NFS
10 2 (0.63%) SRDF
10 2 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.63%) Xen
11 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.31%) Docker
11 1 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (10.34%) Ansible
2 30 (9.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (7.52%) Terraform
4 17 (5.33%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.70%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.45%) SCCM
7 6 (1.88%) Puppet
8 4 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.63%) SCOM
10 1 (0.31%) Avamar
10 1 (0.31%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.31%) NetCrunch
10 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 150 (47.02%) Microsoft
2 93 (29.15%) VMware
3 85 (26.65%) Meraki
4 49 (15.36%) Palo Alto
5 43 (13.48%) Fortinet
6 37 (11.60%) CheckPoint
7 36 (11.29%) Juniper
8 30 (9.40%) Citrix
9 26 (8.15%) Aruba
9 26 (8.15%) SolarWinds
10 23 (7.21%) Dell
11 20 (6.27%) SonicWALL
12 16 (5.02%) Red Hat
13 13 (4.08%) F5
14 12 (3.76%) HP
15 10 (3.13%) EMC
15 10 (3.13%) IBM
16 9 (2.82%) Google
17 8 (2.51%) IronPort
17 8 (2.51%) WatchGuard