Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 826 841 1019
Rank change year-on-year +15 +178 -264
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 76 131 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 71 112 163
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,100 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £49,944 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.90% -4.87% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer.

Salary trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England +56 71 £50,000 -4.76% 5
UK excluding London -6 45 £42,500 -14.90% 4
Work from Home +46 29 £55,000 -4.35% 3
London +70 26 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North of England +45 19 £40,000 -32.20% 1
West Midlands +29 19 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +3 19 £49,000 +15.84%
North West +20 14 £40,000 -32.20%
South East -8 6 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire +77 5 £35,000 -49.09% 1
East of England +20 1 £50,000 -4.76%

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Cisco 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 job ads featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (53.95%) Firewall
3 40 (52.63%) WAN
4 36 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (42.11%) LAN
6 30 (39.47%) TCP/IP
7 27 (35.53%) MPLS
8 26 (34.21%) CCNA
9 25 (32.89%) Juniper
10 23 (30.26%) BGP
11 22 (28.95%) Palo Alto
12 21 (27.63%) OSPF
13 20 (26.32%) Finance
14 19 (25.00%) Wireless
15 18 (23.68%) SD-WAN
15 18 (23.68%) Fortinet
16 17 (22.37%) AWS
16 17 (22.37%) VMware
16 17 (22.37%) DHCP
17 16 (21.05%) DevOps
17 16 (21.05%) Data Centre
17 16 (21.05%) Ethernet
18 15 (19.74%) CheckPoint
18 15 (19.74%) Wi-Fi
19 14 (18.42%) JNCIA
19 14 (18.42%) Internet
20 13 (17.11%) DSL
20 13 (17.11%) Nokia
20 13 (17.11%) VyOS
20 13 (17.11%) Ruckus Wireless

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) AWS
2 9 (11.84%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.32%) GitHub
4 1 (1.32%) IaaS
4 1 (1.32%) PaaS
4 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (53.95%) Firewall
2 40 (52.63%) WAN
3 32 (42.11%) LAN
4 30 (39.47%) TCP/IP
5 27 (35.53%) MPLS
6 23 (30.26%) BGP
7 21 (27.63%) OSPF
8 19 (25.00%) Wireless
9 18 (23.68%) SD-WAN
10 17 (22.37%) DHCP
11 16 (21.05%) Ethernet
12 15 (19.74%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (18.42%) Internet
14 13 (17.11%) DSL
15 12 (15.79%) Network Security
15 12 (15.79%) VPN
16 11 (14.47%) Cisco Firepower
17 10 (13.16%) Cisco ISE
18 7 (9.21%) WLAN
19 6 (7.89%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
1 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
2 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.95%) Law
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Front Office
5 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 9 (11.84%) Hedge funds
3 6 (7.89%) PKI
4 4 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.63%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) VyOS
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) DevOps
2 13 (17.11%) Customer Service
3 12 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (13.16%) Change Management
5 9 (11.84%) Migration
6 8 (10.53%) Change Control
7 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.89%) Network Design
9 5 (6.58%) ITIL
9 5 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (5.26%) Business Continuity
10 4 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.26%) Load Balancing
10 4 (5.26%) Process Improvement
10 4 (5.26%) Project Management
10 4 (5.26%) Software Deployment
10 4 (5.26%) Time Management
10 4 (5.26%) Zero Trust
11 3 (3.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.89%) C#
2 6 (7.89%) SQL
3 5 (6.58%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (34.21%) CCNA
3 14 (18.42%) JNCIA
4 6 (7.89%) CCIE
4 6 (7.89%) CCNP
5 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Terraform
2 7 (9.21%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (7.89%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (32.89%) Juniper
3 22 (28.95%) Palo Alto
4 18 (23.68%) Fortinet
5 17 (22.37%) VMware
6 15 (19.74%) CheckPoint
7 13 (17.11%) Nokia
7 13 (17.11%) Ruckus Wireless
7 13 (17.11%) Vyatta
8 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
9 10 (13.16%) F5
10 9 (11.84%) SolarWinds
11 6 (7.89%) Splunk
12 4 (5.26%) Meraki
12 4 (5.26%) Remedy
12 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
13 3 (3.95%) NetApp
14 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
15 1 (1.32%) Citrix
15 1 (1.32%) Commvault