Senior Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 932 1208
Rank change year-on-year +37 +276 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cisco Engineer 16 29 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.030% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.033% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 16 24 30
10th Percentile £45,650 £61,875 £50,325
25th Percentile £51,350 £68,790 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,669 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +21.07% +2.04%
75th Percentile £86,875 £82,548 £68,438
90th Percentile £115,000 £91,264 £86,825
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,300 £75,669 £62,500
% change year-on-year -32.20% +21.07% +2.04%

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 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Senior Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cisco Engineer in the UK

Senior Cisco Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +41 16 £75,000 -0.88% 4
London +93 12 £75,000 -0.88% 2
Work from Home +47 7 £51,300 -32.20% 1
West Midlands +3 4 £51,300 +21.28%
Midlands -12 4 £51,300 +21.28%
UK excluding London -23 4 £51,300 -32.20% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) Firewall
3 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (56.25%) Palo Alto
4 8 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) WAN
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (50.00%) VPN
4 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (43.75%) SolarWinds
5 7 (43.75%) Windows
5 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (37.50%) SD-WAN
6 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
6 6 (37.50%) Change Management
6 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (37.50%) Wireless
6 6 (37.50%) Azure
6 6 (37.50%) Network Security
7 5 (31.25%) AWS
7 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
7 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
7 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (25.00%) Stealthwatch

Senior 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 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
2 8 (50.00%) WAN
3 6 (37.50%) Network Security
3 6 (37.50%) SD-WAN
3 6 (37.50%) Wireless
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (25.00%) LAN
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (12.50%) WLAN
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) DMZ
7 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
7 1 (6.25%) VLAN
7 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Change Control
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (12.50%) Network Design
5 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
2 4 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 4 (25.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) Palo Alto
3 7 (43.75%) SolarWinds
4 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
5 4 (25.00%) Remedy
5 4 (25.00%) Splunk
6 2 (12.50%) Meraki
6 2 (12.50%) VMware
7 1 (6.25%) Aruba