Cisco Network Engineer Jobs

Cisco Network Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary in the UK is £51,300 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 839 844 1069
Rank change year-on-year +5 +225 -268
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 68 103 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 90 152
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,663 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £52,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +16.67%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK

Cisco Network Engineer
Top 12 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 1 June 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 +15 68 £51,300 +0.59% 4
UK excluding London -33 45 £49,000 - 1
Work from Home +33 32 £55,000 - 1
London +94 23 £75,000 +9.09% 3
North of England +29 17 £40,000 -32.20%
West Midlands +1 17 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands -1 17 £49,000 +15.84%
North West +3 16 £40,000 -33.33%
South East -15 8 £55,000 +20.22%
South West -26 2 £57,000 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire +54 1 £49,000 -27.41%
East of England -1 1 £50,000 -4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 68 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (61.76%) Firewall
3 36 (52.94%) WAN
4 31 (45.59%) LAN
5 28 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (38.24%) MPLS
7 23 (33.82%) TCP/IP
7 23 (33.82%) BGP
8 22 (32.35%) Wireless
8 22 (32.35%) OSPF
8 22 (32.35%) Juniper
9 21 (30.88%) CCNA
9 21 (30.88%) Finance
10 20 (29.41%) Fortinet
10 20 (29.41%) Palo Alto
11 17 (25.00%) DHCP
12 16 (23.53%) Ethernet
12 16 (23.53%) AWS
13 15 (22.06%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (22.06%) Internet
13 15 (22.06%) Customer Service
14 14 (20.59%) SD-WAN
14 14 (20.59%) CheckPoint
15 13 (19.12%) Ruckus Wireless
15 13 (19.12%) Vyatta
15 13 (19.12%) Nokia
15 13 (19.12%) JNCIA
15 13 (19.12%) DSL
15 13 (19.12%) VyOS
16 12 (17.65%) 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 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.53%) AWS
2 10 (14.71%) Azure
3 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.47%) IaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) PaaS
4 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (61.76%) Firewall
2 36 (52.94%) WAN
3 31 (45.59%) LAN
4 26 (38.24%) MPLS
5 23 (33.82%) BGP
5 23 (33.82%) TCP/IP
6 22 (32.35%) OSPF
6 22 (32.35%) Wireless
7 17 (25.00%) DHCP
8 16 (23.53%) Ethernet
9 15 (22.06%) Internet
9 15 (22.06%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (20.59%) SD-WAN
11 13 (19.12%) DSL
12 10 (14.71%) Network Security
13 8 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (11.76%) VPN
14 7 (10.29%) VLAN
15 5 (7.35%) Cisco ISE
15 5 (7.35%) WLAN
General
1 21 (30.88%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Banking
3 2 (2.94%) Front Office
3 2 (2.94%) Military
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.47%) Law
4 1 (1.47%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.35%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.41%) PKI
5 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.12%) VyOS
2 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.35%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) Customer Service
2 10 (14.71%) DevOps
2 10 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (10.29%) Change Control
3 7 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (10.29%) Migration
4 5 (7.35%) Change Management
5 4 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (5.88%) Project Management
5 4 (5.88%) Time Management
6 3 (4.41%) ITIL
6 3 (4.41%) Load Balancing
6 3 (4.41%) Low Latency
6 3 (4.41%) Network Design
6 3 (4.41%) Project Delivery
7 2 (2.94%) Asset Management
7 2 (2.94%) Business Continuity
7 2 (2.94%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.88%) Bash
3 3 (4.41%) C#
3 3 (4.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (30.88%) CCNA
3 13 (19.12%) JNCIA
4 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) CCIE
5 3 (4.41%) CCNP
5 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Firmware
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (4.41%) Stealthwatch
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (32.35%) Juniper
3 20 (29.41%) Fortinet
3 20 (29.41%) Palo Alto
4 14 (20.59%) CheckPoint
5 13 (19.12%) Nokia
5 13 (19.12%) Ruckus Wireless
5 13 (19.12%) Vyatta
6 9 (13.24%) F5
7 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 8 (11.76%) SolarWinds
8 6 (8.82%) VMware
9 4 (5.88%) Remedy
10 3 (4.41%) Splunk
11 2 (2.94%) Meraki
12 1 (1.47%) Aruba
12 1 (1.47%) Citrix
12 1 (1.47%) Radware