Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 123 135
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -42
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 2,494 2,902 4,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.52% 2.86% 2.99%
As % of the Vendors category 6.83% 6.84% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 1,987 2,794
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Vendors
UK

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco 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 +25 2,264 £50,000 - 461
UK excluding London +1 1,727 £47,500 +5.56% 348
Work from Home -9 782 £54,000 -1.82% 205
London +43 669 £59,175 -1.38% 153
South East +1 504 £49,000 +3.16% 106
North of England +14 435 £45,000 - 69
Midlands +14 328 £45,000 - 54
West Midlands +45 247 £45,000 - 31
North West -22 233 £48,500 +4.30% 42
South West +15 220 £49,000 +13.95% 46
Yorkshire +70 150 £47,500 +5.56% 20
East of England -13 122 £47,500 -5.00% 36
East Midlands -51 76 £44,225 -6.90% 23
Scotland -108 76 £43,750 +16.67% 38
Wales +4 56 £44,886 +8.81% 10
North East -5 56 £42,500 - 8
Isle of Man - 10 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco
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
1 312 (12.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 156 (6.26%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.76%) Skype for Business
4 27 (1.08%) IIS
5 12 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
6 11 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
7 6 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.080%) CMS
10 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.040%) Apache
11 1 (0.040%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.040%) nginx
11 1 (0.040%) SAS
11 1 (0.040%) WebLogic
Applications
1 140 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.040%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.040%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.040%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 814 (32.64%) Azure
2 677 (27.15%) Microsoft 365
3 318 (12.75%) AWS
4 135 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 94 (3.77%) GCP
6 75 (3.01%) IaaS
7 62 (2.49%) PaaS
8 57 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
9 55 (2.21%) SaaS
10 38 (1.52%) Mimecast
11 37 (1.48%) OneDrive
12 26 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (0.92%) Rubrik
14 18 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (0.60%) Nutanix
15 15 (0.60%) OCI
16 14 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
17 13 (0.52%) Power Platform
18 12 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,061 (42.54%) Firewall
2 864 (34.64%) WAN
3 609 (24.42%) LAN
4 472 (18.93%) Wireless
5 428 (17.16%) SD-WAN
6 406 (16.28%) VPN
7 325 (13.03%) Network Security
8 323 (12.95%) DNS
9 320 (12.83%) Wi-Fi
10 281 (11.27%) BGP
11 270 (10.83%) DHCP
12 256 (10.26%) MPLS
13 223 (8.94%) TCP/IP
13 223 (8.94%) VLAN
14 205 (8.22%) OSPF
15 201 (8.06%) Cisco IOS
16 137 (5.49%) Cisco Firepower
17 132 (5.29%) SAN
18 125 (5.01%) Cisco ASA
19 113 (4.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 22 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (0.64%) MySQL
4 11 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 11 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.28%) DB2
7 6 (0.24%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.24%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.20%) Power BI
9 4 (0.16%) Big Data
10 3 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.080%) Metadata
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.080%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.080%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.080%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.040%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (1.44%) JIRA
2 17 (0.68%) GitLab
3 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.24%) Git
5 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.080%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.080%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.040%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 632 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 251 (10.06%) Finance
3 173 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (6.26%) Telecoms
5 89 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 74 (2.97%) Law
8 68 (2.73%) Retail
9 55 (2.21%) Legal
10 48 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 48 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (1.48%) Automotive
12 34 (1.36%) Banking
13 33 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 32 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.20%) Marketing
16 27 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.00%) Games
18 24 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 22 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 753 (30.19%) Network Engineer
2 445 (17.84%) Senior
3 280 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 243 (9.74%) IT Support
5 229 (9.18%) Support Engineer
6 203 (8.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 187 (7.50%) Analyst
8 182 (7.30%) IT Engineer
9 156 (6.26%) Architect
10 117 (4.69%) Lead
11 107 (4.29%) Support Specialist
12 97 (3.89%) IT Support Specialist
13 91 (3.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 81 (3.25%) IT Manager
15 79 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
16 76 (3.05%) Cisco Engineer
17 68 (2.73%) 3rd Line Support
18 67 (2.69%) Security Engineer
19 66 (2.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
19 66 (2.65%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 23 (0.92%) XML
3 19 (0.76%) LDAP
4 15 (0.60%) JSON
5 13 (0.52%) HTML
5 13 (0.52%) YAML
6 12 (0.48%) NETCONF
7 11 (0.44%) REST
7 11 (0.44%) RESTCONF
7 11 (0.44%) SOAP
7 11 (0.44%) YANG
8 9 (0.36%) XMPP
9 7 (0.28%) Web Services
10 5 (0.20%) SAML
10 5 (0.20%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (0.16%) Akka
11 4 (0.16%) RESTful
12 3 (0.12%) ARM Templates
13 2 (0.080%) Lightning Web Components
13 2 (0.080%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 402 (16.12%) Data Centre
2 162 (6.50%) Video Conferencing
3 130 (5.21%) Driving Licence
4 119 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 97 (3.89%) Public Cloud
6 95 (3.81%) Wiki
7 74 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 57 (2.29%) Replication
9 33 (1.32%) CCTV
10 32 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 31 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.12%) PKI
13 24 (0.96%) IoT
14 21 (0.84%) Clustering
14 21 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (0.80%) Private Cloud
16 17 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 17 (0.68%) PMI
16 17 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 848 (34.00%) Windows
2 453 (18.16%) Windows Server
3 316 (12.67%) Linux
4 298 (11.95%) Windows 10
5 121 (4.85%) Android
6 102 (4.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 84 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 81 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 57 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 41 (1.64%) Windows 7
11 37 (1.48%) CentOS
12 35 (1.40%) Unix
12 35 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 33 (1.32%) Mac OS
14 19 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 18 (0.72%) VyOS
16 17 (0.68%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.48%) Windows XP
18 9 (0.36%) VMS
18 9 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (16.64%) ITIL
2 402 (16.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 350 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
4 300 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
5 276 (11.07%) Customer Service
6 206 (8.26%) Project Delivery
7 186 (7.46%) Computer Science
8 180 (7.22%) Project Management
9 174 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
10 151 (6.05%) Business Continuity
11 145 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 139 (5.57%) Incident Management
13 130 (5.21%) Mentoring
14 128 (5.13%) Presales
15 127 (5.09%) Agile
16 113 (4.53%) Service Delivery
17 110 (4.41%) Network Monitoring
18 109 (4.37%) Mobile Device Management
19 105 (4.21%) Migration
19 105 (4.21%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 192 (7.70%) PowerShell
2 124 (4.97%) Python
3 108 (4.33%) SQL
4 61 (2.45%) Bash
5 29 (1.16%) C#
6 25 (1.00%) Java
6 25 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.64%) Perl
8 13 (0.52%) VBScript
9 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.28%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) C
12 4 (0.16%) Lua
12 4 (0.16%) Ruby
12 4 (0.16%) Tcl
13 2 (0.080%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.080%) R
13 2 (0.080%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.080%) VB
14 1 (0.040%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 789 (31.64%) Cisco Certification
2 493 (19.77%) CCNA
3 478 (19.17%) CCNP
4 476 (19.09%) Security Cleared
5 434 (17.40%) Degree
6 257 (10.30%) SC Cleared
7 171 (6.86%) DV Cleared
8 165 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 132 (5.29%) Master's Degree
10 116 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 86 (3.45%) Azure Certification
11 86 (3.45%) CCIE
12 66 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
13 59 (2.37%) JNCIA
13 59 (2.37%) MCSE
14 41 (1.64%) MCSA
15 40 (1.60%) CISSP
16 36 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 33 (1.32%) A+ Certification
18 30 (1.20%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.89%) SLA
2 85 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 43 (1.72%) GDPR
5 26 (1.04%) NIST
6 20 (0.80%) QA
7 19 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.36%) COSHH
10 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.24%) NCSC
12 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.16%) PMO
15 2 (0.080%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
15 2 (0.080%) NIST 800
System Software
1 670 (26.86%) Active Directory
2 396 (15.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 251 (10.06%) Hyper-V
4 193 (7.74%) VMware ESXi
5 108 (4.33%) XenApp
5 108 (4.33%) XenDesktop
6 91 (3.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 59 (2.37%) vSphere
8 34 (1.36%) VMware NSX
9 30 (1.20%) Docker
10 28 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
11 22 (0.88%) Firmware
12 12 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 11 (0.44%) KVM
13 11 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
14 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.32%) Terminal Services
16 7 (0.28%) pfSense
17 4 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 186 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 159 (6.38%) SCCM
3 128 (5.13%) FortiGate
4 92 (3.69%) AirWatch
5 77 (3.09%) Ansible
6 62 (2.49%) Terraform
7 59 (2.37%) WSUS
8 35 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 33 (1.32%) Kubernetes
10 31 (1.24%) Puppet
11 28 (1.12%) Stealthwatch
12 27 (1.08%) SCOM
13 24 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
14 23 (0.92%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.92%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.84%) CASB
16 19 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 17 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
18 16 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 940 (37.69%) Microsoft
2 650 (26.06%) VMware
3 436 (17.48%) Juniper
4 380 (15.24%) Meraki
5 344 (13.79%) Fortinet
6 338 (13.55%) Palo Alto
7 241 (9.66%) Citrix
8 217 (8.70%) HP
9 207 (8.30%) Aruba
10 155 (6.21%) CheckPoint
11 138 (5.53%) Veeam
12 130 (5.21%) Dell
13 129 (5.17%) SolarWinds
14 96 (3.85%) Apple
15 91 (3.65%) F5
16 88 (3.53%) NetApp
17 78 (3.13%) Ruckus Wireless
18 68 (2.73%) Red Hat
19 58 (2.33%) Google
20 51 (2.04%) Mitel