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 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 826 873 1059
Rank change year-on-year +47 +186 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 64 104 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60 90 142
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,427
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -3.69% +8.50%
75th Percentile £73,125 £69,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £69,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £48,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.55% -8.10% +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 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 18 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 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 +64 64 £50,000 -3.85% 5
UK excluding London -31 41 £49,000 +1.55% 3
Work from Home +58 25 £51,300 -10.78% 2
London +87 23 £75,000 +7.14% 2
West Midlands +28 18 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +4 18 £49,000 +15.84%
North of England +47 16 £40,000 -32.20%
North West +12 15 £40,000 -32.20%
South East -5 6 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire +73 1 £49,000 -28.73%
East of England +4 1 £50,000 -4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (59.38%) Firewall
2 38 (59.38%) WAN
3 33 (51.56%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (48.44%) LAN
5 26 (40.63%) TCP/IP
5 26 (40.63%) MPLS
6 24 (37.50%) CCNA
7 23 (35.94%) Juniper
8 22 (34.38%) BGP
9 21 (32.81%) OSPF
10 20 (31.25%) Wireless
10 20 (31.25%) Palo Alto
11 18 (28.13%) Finance
11 18 (28.13%) Fortinet
11 18 (28.13%) SD-WAN
12 17 (26.56%) DHCP
13 16 (25.00%) Ethernet
13 16 (25.00%) AWS
14 15 (23.44%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (21.88%) CheckPoint
15 14 (21.88%) Internet
16 13 (20.31%) VyOS
16 13 (20.31%) Vyatta
16 13 (20.31%) Ruckus Wireless
16 13 (20.31%) DSL
16 13 (20.31%) Nokia
16 13 (20.31%) JNCIA
16 13 (20.31%) Customer Service
17 12 (18.75%) 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 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.56%) IaaS
4 1 (1.56%) PaaS
4 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (59.38%) Firewall
1 38 (59.38%) WAN
2 31 (48.44%) LAN
3 26 (40.63%) MPLS
3 26 (40.63%) TCP/IP
4 22 (34.38%) BGP
5 21 (32.81%) OSPF
6 20 (31.25%) Wireless
7 18 (28.13%) SD-WAN
8 17 (26.56%) DHCP
9 16 (25.00%) Ethernet
10 15 (23.44%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (21.88%) Internet
12 13 (20.31%) DSL
13 10 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (15.63%) Network Security
14 9 (14.06%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (14.06%) VPN
15 6 (9.38%) VLAN
16 5 (7.81%) Cisco IOS
General
1 18 (28.13%) Finance
2 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Law
4 2 (3.13%) Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Hedge funds
3 5 (7.81%) PKI
4 4 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) VyOS
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 7 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.31%) Customer Service
2 12 (18.75%) DevOps
3 10 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (14.06%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (12.50%) Change Control
6 7 (10.94%) Change Management
6 7 (10.94%) Migration
7 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.81%) Network Design
8 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.25%) Project Management
9 4 (6.25%) Time Management
10 3 (4.69%) Load Balancing
10 3 (4.69%) Low Latency
10 3 (4.69%) Process Improvement
10 3 (4.69%) Project Delivery
10 3 (4.69%) Software Deployment
11 2 (3.13%) Data Protection
11 2 (3.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.81%) C#
2 5 (7.81%) SQL
3 4 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (51.56%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (37.50%) CCNA
3 13 (20.31%) JNCIA
4 5 (7.81%) CCIE
4 5 (7.81%) CCNP
5 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) NCSC
1 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.56%) Docker
4 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Cisco CUCM
1 5 (7.81%) Stealthwatch
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (35.94%) Juniper
3 20 (31.25%) Palo Alto
4 18 (28.13%) Fortinet
5 14 (21.88%) CheckPoint
6 13 (20.31%) Nokia
6 13 (20.31%) Ruckus Wireless
6 13 (20.31%) Vyatta
7 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
7 9 (14.06%) VMware
8 8 (12.50%) SolarWinds
9 7 (10.94%) F5
10 5 (7.81%) Splunk
11 4 (6.25%) Remedy
12 2 (3.13%) Meraki
13 1 (1.56%) Citrix
13 1 (1.56%) Radware