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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 848 1023
Rank change year-on-year +32 +175 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 74 129 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 69 112 174
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £36,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £82,543 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £49,944 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.90% -4.87% +12.90%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +46 69 £50,000 -3.85% 10
UK excluding London -38 45 £42,500 -14.90% 5
Work from Home +47 30 £55,000 -4.35% 4
London +74 24 £75,000 +7.14% 5
North of England +43 20 £40,000 -32.20%
West Midlands +28 18 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +4 18 £49,000 +15.84%
North West +12 15 £40,000 -32.20%
South East -6 6 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Yorkshire +69 5 £35,000 -49.09%
East of England +4 1 £50,000 -4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (54.05%) Firewall
2 40 (54.05%) WAN
3 34 (45.95%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (44.59%) LAN
5 28 (37.84%) TCP/IP
6 27 (36.49%) MPLS
7 25 (33.78%) CCNA
8 24 (32.43%) Juniper
9 23 (31.08%) BGP
10 21 (28.38%) OSPF
11 20 (27.03%) Wireless
11 20 (27.03%) Palo Alto
12 18 (24.32%) SD-WAN
12 18 (24.32%) Finance
12 18 (24.32%) Fortinet
13 17 (22.97%) DHCP
14 16 (21.62%) Ethernet
14 16 (21.62%) VMware
14 16 (21.62%) AWS
15 15 (20.27%) DevOps
15 15 (20.27%) Data Centre
15 15 (20.27%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (18.92%) Internet
16 14 (18.92%) CheckPoint
16 14 (18.92%) JNCIA
17 13 (17.57%) DSL
17 13 (17.57%) Nokia
17 13 (17.57%) VyOS
17 13 (17.57%) 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 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.35%) GitHub
4 1 (1.35%) IaaS
4 1 (1.35%) PaaS
4 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (54.05%) Firewall
1 40 (54.05%) WAN
2 33 (44.59%) LAN
3 28 (37.84%) TCP/IP
4 27 (36.49%) MPLS
5 23 (31.08%) BGP
6 21 (28.38%) OSPF
7 20 (27.03%) Wireless
8 18 (24.32%) SD-WAN
9 17 (22.97%) DHCP
10 16 (21.62%) Ethernet
11 15 (20.27%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (18.92%) Internet
13 13 (17.57%) DSL
14 12 (16.22%) Network Security
15 11 (14.86%) VPN
16 10 (13.51%) Cisco Firepower
17 9 (12.16%) Cisco ISE
18 7 (9.46%) WLAN
19 6 (8.11%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
1 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (24.32%) Finance
2 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.05%) Law
4 2 (2.70%) Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Front Office
4 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.46%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.76%) PKI
4 4 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.70%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) VyOS
2 7 (9.46%) Windows
2 7 (9.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.41%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) DevOps
2 13 (17.57%) Customer Service
3 11 (14.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (13.51%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (12.16%) Change Management
5 9 (12.16%) Migration
6 8 (10.81%) Change Control
7 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.76%) ITIL
8 5 (6.76%) Network Design
8 5 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.41%) Business Continuity
9 4 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.41%) Project Management
9 4 (5.41%) Time Management
9 4 (5.41%) Zero Trust
10 3 (4.05%) Load Balancing
10 3 (4.05%) Low Latency
10 3 (4.05%) Process Improvement
10 3 (4.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.76%) Bash
2 5 (6.76%) C#
2 5 (6.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (45.95%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (33.78%) CCNA
3 14 (18.92%) JNCIA
4 6 (8.11%) CCNP
5 5 (6.76%) CCIE
6 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) NCSC
1 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (6.76%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (32.43%) Juniper
3 20 (27.03%) Palo Alto
4 18 (24.32%) Fortinet
5 16 (21.62%) VMware
6 14 (18.92%) CheckPoint
7 13 (17.57%) Nokia
7 13 (17.57%) Ruckus Wireless
7 13 (17.57%) Vyatta
8 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
9 9 (12.16%) F5
9 9 (12.16%) SolarWinds
10 5 (6.76%) Splunk
11 4 (5.41%) Meraki
11 4 (5.41%) Remedy
11 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
12 3 (4.05%) NetApp
13 2 (2.70%) Zscaler
14 1 (1.35%) Citrix
14 1 (1.35%) Commvault