Cisco IOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco IOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco IOS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 697 735 1006
Rank change year-on-year +38 +271 -231
Permanent jobs citing Cisco IOS 195 245 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.45% 1.57% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 47 157 173
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,377 £31,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -30.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £61,546 £58,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £69,150 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.18% -32.00% +31.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco IOS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco IOS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS 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 +30 170 £47,500 +5.56% 15
London +142 129 £52,500 -6.67% 8
UK excluding London -107 65 £42,000 -1.18% 8
Work from Home +19 23 £39,500 -12.22% 5
North of England -27 19 £61,185 +43.96% 1
Wales +19 14 - - 1
Yorkshire +83 12 £47,500 -28.57%
Midlands -6 10 £39,000 +9.09% 1
Scotland -60 9 £28,000 -42.27% 1
North West -56 7 £61,185 +43.96% 1
East Midlands -3 6 £39,000 - 1
South East -4 6 £32,000 -13.22% 2
South West -33 5 £52,073 +89.35% 1
West Midlands +10 4 £62,500 +74.83%
East of England +1 1 £45,000 +9.76% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco IOS
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 95 (48.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (12.82%) Skype for Business
3 6 (3.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 138 (70.77%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (13.33%) Azure
3 6 (3.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.54%) AWS
4 3 (1.54%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.03%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.51%) GCP
6 1 (0.51%) IaaS
6 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.51%) PaaS
6 1 (0.51%) SaaS
6 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 130 (66.67%) WAN
2 105 (53.85%) Wireless
3 95 (48.72%) SD-WAN
4 86 (44.10%) WebEx
5 44 (22.56%) Firewall
6 40 (20.51%) LAN
7 28 (14.36%) VPN
8 27 (13.85%) TCP/IP
9 25 (12.82%) Skype
9 25 (12.82%) Telepresence
10 22 (11.28%) VLAN
11 19 (9.74%) Network Security
12 17 (8.72%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (8.72%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (6.67%) DNS
14 11 (5.64%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (5.64%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (5.13%) BGP
15 10 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (4.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.51%) JIRA
1 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (52.31%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 35 (17.95%) Finance
4 28 (14.36%) Automotive
5 25 (12.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (5.13%) Retail
7 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.54%) Law
9 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.54%) Military
9 3 (1.54%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (52.82%) IT Support
2 88 (45.13%) Support Specialist
3 87 (44.62%) IT Support Specialist
4 34 (17.44%) Network Engineer
5 32 (16.41%) Support Engineer
6 26 (13.33%) Senior
7 18 (9.23%) IT Engineer
8 17 (8.72%) Analyst
9 13 (6.67%) Support Analyst
10 12 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Consultant
11 11 (5.64%) IT Analyst
11 11 (5.64%) Project Consultant
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Consultant
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Network Consultant
11 11 (5.64%) Senior Project Consultant
12 8 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Graduate
13 7 (3.59%) Graduate Support Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (59.49%) Video Conferencing
2 86 (44.10%) Wiki
3 15 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.56%) PKI
5 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.03%) BYOD
7 2 (1.03%) CMDB
7 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) EPoS
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 149 (76.41%) Windows
2 125 (64.10%) Windows 10
3 104 (53.33%) Android
4 27 (13.85%) Windows 7
5 20 (10.26%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.64%) Mac OS X
7 8 (4.10%) Linux
8 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.54%) CatOS
9 3 (1.54%) Unix
9 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (45.64%) Computer Science
2 87 (44.62%) Business Continuity
3 86 (44.10%) Application Virtualisation
3 86 (44.10%) BCP
3 86 (44.10%) Business Continuity Planning
3 86 (44.10%) Contract Negotiation
3 86 (44.10%) Mobile Device Management
4 48 (24.62%) ITIL
5 24 (12.31%) Customer Service
6 22 (11.28%) Network Design
7 19 (9.74%) Change Management
8 16 (8.21%) Patch Management
9 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (7.18%) Migration
11 13 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (6.15%) Change Control
13 11 (5.64%) Actionable Insight
14 8 (4.10%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (4.10%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (3.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.10%) SQL
3 5 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (0.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 126 (64.62%) Degree
2 111 (56.92%) Master's Degree
3 95 (48.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (12.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 25 (12.82%) MBA
6 24 (12.31%) CCNP
7 18 (9.23%) CCIE
8 15 (7.69%) CCNA
9 14 (7.18%) Security Cleared
10 12 (6.15%) SC Cleared
11 10 (5.13%) CISSP
12 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.54%) Check Point Certification
13 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (1.03%) MCSE
14 2 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.51%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.59%) GDPR
2 3 (1.54%) SLA
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 116 (59.49%) Active Directory
2 89 (45.64%) VMware ESXi
3 86 (44.10%) Microsoft App-V
3 86 (44.10%) XenApp
3 86 (44.10%) XenDesktop
4 16 (8.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.03%) NFS
6 2 (1.03%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (47.18%) SCCM
2 86 (44.10%) AirWatch
3 17 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.59%) Cisco CUCM
5 5 (2.56%) Stealthwatch
6 4 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.05%) SmoothWall
7 3 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.03%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Ansible
9 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.51%) WMI
Vendors
1 195 (100.00%) Cisco
2 141 (72.31%) Microsoft
3 88 (45.13%) Citrix
4 36 (18.46%) Apple
5 28 (14.36%) Palo Alto
6 25 (12.82%) Polycom
7 21 (10.77%) Fortinet
7 21 (10.77%) VMware
8 16 (8.21%) Meraki
9 14 (7.18%) CheckPoint
10 11 (5.64%) McAfee
10 11 (5.64%) Oracle
11 7 (3.59%) SonicWALL
12 5 (2.56%) Draytek
12 5 (2.56%) Splunk
12 5 (2.56%) Veeam
13 4 (2.05%) Aruba
13 4 (2.05%) F5
13 4 (2.05%) Juniper
13 4 (2.05%) SolarWinds