Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Network 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 836 862 1056
Rank change year-on-year +26 +194 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 66 110 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 62 94 130
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,063 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +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 Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network 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 Network 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 +70 66 £50,000 -4.76% 5
UK excluding London -1 41 £49,000 - 3
London +81 25 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Work from Home +53 24 £51,300 -10.78% 2
West Midlands +29 19 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +3 19 £49,000 +15.84%
North of England +47 15 £40,000 -32.20% 1
North West +20 14 £40,000 -32.20%
South East -7 6 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Yorkshire +79 1 £49,000 -28.73% 1
East of England +20 1 £50,000 -4.76%

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

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

1 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (59.09%) Firewall
3 38 (57.58%) WAN
4 35 (53.03%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (45.45%) LAN
6 28 (42.42%) TCP/IP
7 26 (39.39%) MPLS
8 25 (37.88%) CCNA
9 24 (36.36%) Juniper
10 22 (33.33%) BGP
10 22 (33.33%) Palo Alto
11 21 (31.82%) OSPF
12 20 (30.30%) Finance
13 19 (28.79%) Wireless
14 18 (27.27%) Fortinet
14 18 (27.27%) SD-WAN
15 17 (25.76%) DHCP
15 17 (25.76%) AWS
16 16 (24.24%) Ethernet
17 15 (22.73%) CheckPoint
17 15 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (21.21%) Internet
19 13 (19.70%) DevOps
19 13 (19.70%) Ruckus Wireless
19 13 (19.70%) Vyatta
19 13 (19.70%) DSL
19 13 (19.70%) Nokia
19 13 (19.70%) JNCIA
19 13 (19.70%) Customer Service
19 13 (19.70%) Data Centre

Cisco Network 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) AWS
2 6 (9.09%) Azure
3 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.52%) IaaS
4 1 (1.52%) PaaS
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (59.09%) Firewall
2 38 (57.58%) WAN
3 30 (45.45%) LAN
4 28 (42.42%) TCP/IP
5 26 (39.39%) MPLS
6 22 (33.33%) BGP
7 21 (31.82%) OSPF
8 19 (28.79%) Wireless
9 18 (27.27%) SD-WAN
10 17 (25.76%) DHCP
11 16 (24.24%) Ethernet
12 15 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (21.21%) Internet
14 13 (19.70%) DSL
15 11 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
16 10 (15.15%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (15.15%) Network Security
16 10 (15.15%) VPN
17 6 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
18 5 (7.58%) WLAN
General
1 20 (30.30%) Finance
2 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Front Office
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.64%) Hedge funds
3 6 (9.09%) PKI
4 4 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.03%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) VyOS
2 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 8 (12.12%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.70%) Customer Service
1 13 (19.70%) DevOps
2 12 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (12.12%) Change Control
4 8 (12.12%) Change Management
5 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (10.61%) Migration
6 6 (9.09%) Network Design
7 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (6.06%) Load Balancing
8 4 (6.06%) Process Improvement
8 4 (6.06%) Project Management
8 4 (6.06%) Software Deployment
8 4 (6.06%) Time Management
9 3 (4.55%) Low Latency
9 3 (4.55%) Project Delivery
10 2 (3.03%) Quantitative Trading
10 2 (3.03%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.09%) C#
2 6 (9.09%) SQL
3 4 (6.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (53.03%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (37.88%) CCNA
3 13 (19.70%) JNCIA
4 6 (9.09%) CCIE
5 5 (7.58%) CCNP
6 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
1 6 (9.09%) Stealthwatch
2 3 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (36.36%) Juniper
3 22 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 18 (27.27%) Fortinet
5 15 (22.73%) CheckPoint
6 13 (19.70%) Nokia
6 13 (19.70%) Ruckus Wireless
6 13 (19.70%) Vyatta
7 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
7 10 (15.15%) VMware
8 8 (12.12%) F5
8 8 (12.12%) SolarWinds
9 6 (9.09%) Splunk
10 4 (6.06%) Remedy
11 2 (3.03%) Meraki
12 1 (1.52%) Citrix
12 1 (1.52%) Radware