Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 123 133
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 -40
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 2,556 2,920 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 2.81% 2.98%
As % of the Vendors category 6.97% 6.72% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,068 2,006 2,831
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,237 £38,536 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,625 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Vendors
UK

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,672 43,426 60,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 41.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,141 24,776 33,270
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +35 2,320 £50,000 - 508
UK excluding London +6 1,767 £47,500 +5.56% 376
Work from Home +4 809 £54,000 -1.82% 185
London +50 689 £60,000 - 174
South East +6 519 £49,000 +3.16% 114
North of England +16 440 £45,000 - 79
Midlands +26 333 £45,000 -1.88% 50
West Midlands +53 252 £45,000 - 31
North West -11 238 £50,000 +8.70% 44
South West +23 228 £49,000 +13.95% 56
Yorkshire +61 152 £47,500 +5.56% 26
East of England -16 127 £47,500 +4.97% 43
Scotland -107 79 £45,000 +20.00% 38
East Midlands -41 76 £44,225 -6.90% 19
Wales +11 58 £44,886 +12.22% 9
North East -2 57 £42,500 - 12
Isle of Man - 10 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco
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
1 338 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (6.18%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.72%) Skype for Business
4 26 (1.02%) IIS
5 13 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
7 6 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.078%) Apache
10 2 (0.078%) CMS
10 2 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.078%) nginx
11 1 (0.039%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.039%) SAS
11 1 (0.039%) WebLogic
Applications
1 146 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.039%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.039%) HiPortfolio
2 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.039%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 821 (32.12%) Azure
2 692 (27.07%) Microsoft 365
3 317 (12.40%) AWS
4 133 (5.20%) Entra ID
5 93 (3.64%) GCP
6 78 (3.05%) IaaS
7 63 (2.46%) PaaS
8 57 (2.23%) SaaS
9 56 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
10 37 (1.45%) Mimecast
10 37 (1.45%) OneDrive
11 26 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (0.94%) Rubrik
13 18 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 16 (0.63%) Nutanix
15 15 (0.59%) OCI
16 14 (0.55%) Power Platform
17 13 (0.51%) AWS Direct Connect
17 13 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,087 (42.53%) Firewall
2 890 (34.82%) WAN
3 632 (24.73%) LAN
4 495 (19.37%) Wireless
5 435 (17.02%) SD-WAN
6 415 (16.24%) VPN
7 331 (12.95%) Network Security
8 330 (12.91%) DNS
8 330 (12.91%) Wi-Fi
9 289 (11.31%) BGP
10 277 (10.84%) DHCP
11 257 (10.05%) MPLS
12 233 (9.12%) VLAN
13 228 (8.92%) TCP/IP
14 214 (8.37%) Cisco IOS
15 209 (8.18%) OSPF
16 137 (5.36%) Cisco Firepower
17 134 (5.24%) SAN
18 130 (5.09%) Cisco ASA
19 119 (4.66%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.29%) SQL Server
2 25 (0.98%) MongoDB
3 23 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (0.63%) MySQL
5 11 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.27%) DB2
8 6 (0.23%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
8 6 (0.23%) Power BI
8 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.16%) Big Data
10 3 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.078%) Metadata
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.078%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.078%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.078%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.039%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (1.41%) JIRA
2 17 (0.67%) GitLab
3 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.23%) Git
5 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.078%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.078%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.039%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 649 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 252 (9.86%) Finance
3 174 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 104 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 84 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 77 (3.01%) Law
8 66 (2.58%) Retail
9 56 (2.19%) Legal
10 53 (2.07%) Aerospace
11 48 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (1.45%) Automotive
13 34 (1.33%) Banking
14 33 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (1.25%) Marketing
16 31 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.06%) Games
17 27 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 23 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 778 (30.44%) Network Engineer
2 459 (17.96%) Senior
3 285 (11.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 255 (9.98%) IT Support
5 244 (9.55%) Support Engineer
6 214 (8.37%) Senior Network Engineer
7 191 (7.47%) Analyst
8 187 (7.32%) IT Engineer
9 155 (6.06%) Architect
10 120 (4.69%) Lead
11 116 (4.54%) Support Specialist
12 104 (4.07%) IT Support Specialist
13 90 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 83 (3.25%) IT Support Engineer
15 80 (3.13%) IT Manager
16 77 (3.01%) Cisco Engineer
17 68 (2.66%) 3rd Line Support
18 67 (2.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
18 67 (2.62%) Consultant
18 67 (2.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 23 (0.90%) XML
3 21 (0.82%) LDAP
4 16 (0.63%) JSON
5 14 (0.55%) HTML
6 13 (0.51%) YAML
7 12 (0.47%) NETCONF
8 11 (0.43%) REST
8 11 (0.43%) RESTCONF
8 11 (0.43%) SOAP
8 11 (0.43%) YANG
9 9 (0.35%) XMPP
10 7 (0.27%) Web Services
11 5 (0.20%) SAML
11 5 (0.20%) WebSphere MQ
12 4 (0.16%) Akka
12 4 (0.16%) RESTful
13 3 (0.12%) ARM Templates
14 2 (0.078%) Lightning Web Components
14 2 (0.078%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 401 (15.69%) Data Centre
2 170 (6.65%) Video Conferencing
3 133 (5.20%) Driving Licence
3 133 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 102 (3.99%) Wiki
5 100 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 74 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.27%) Replication
8 33 (1.29%) CCTV
9 32 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.21%) PKI
11 30 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 23 (0.90%) IoT
13 22 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (0.82%) Clustering
15 20 (0.78%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
17 18 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 18 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 17 (0.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 866 (33.88%) Windows
2 458 (17.92%) Windows Server
3 317 (12.40%) Linux
4 312 (12.21%) Windows 10
5 129 (5.05%) Android
6 102 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 88 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 82 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 59 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 41 (1.60%) Windows 7
11 36 (1.41%) CentOS
11 36 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 34 (1.33%) Unix
13 33 (1.29%) Mac OS
14 19 (0.74%) Ubuntu
14 19 (0.74%) VyOS
15 17 (0.67%) Mac OS X
16 12 (0.47%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.39%) VMS
18 9 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (16.59%) ITIL
2 405 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 349 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
4 302 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
5 285 (11.15%) Customer Service
6 208 (8.14%) Project Delivery
7 194 (7.59%) Computer Science
8 180 (7.04%) Project Management
9 176 (6.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 159 (6.22%) Business Continuity
11 145 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (5.40%) Incident Management
13 130 (5.09%) Mentoring
14 127 (4.97%) Agile
15 126 (4.93%) Presales
16 118 (4.62%) DevOps
17 117 (4.58%) Service Delivery
18 114 (4.46%) Mobile Device Management
19 110 (4.30%) Network Monitoring
20 108 (4.23%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 211 (8.26%) PowerShell
2 141 (5.52%) Python
3 123 (4.81%) SQL
4 78 (3.05%) Bash
5 30 (1.17%) C#
6 25 (0.98%) Java
6 25 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.63%) Perl
8 13 (0.51%) VBScript
9 11 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.27%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) C
12 4 (0.16%) Lua
12 4 (0.16%) Ruby
12 4 (0.16%) Tcl
13 2 (0.078%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.078%) R
13 2 (0.078%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.078%) VB
14 1 (0.039%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 829 (32.43%) Cisco Certification
2 516 (20.19%) CCNA
3 487 (19.05%) CCNP
4 485 (18.97%) Security Cleared
5 451 (17.64%) Degree
6 259 (10.13%) SC Cleared
7 179 (7.00%) DV Cleared
8 173 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 139 (5.44%) Master's Degree
10 124 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 89 (3.48%) CCIE
12 84 (3.29%) Azure Certification
13 73 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
14 61 (2.39%) JNCIA
15 57 (2.23%) MCSE
16 44 (1.72%) MCSA
17 39 (1.53%) CISSP
18 36 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 34 (1.33%) A+ Certification
20 33 (1.29%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.81%) SLA
2 84 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 43 (1.68%) GDPR
5 24 (0.94%) NIST
6 20 (0.78%) QA
7 18 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.35%) COSHH
10 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.23%) NCSC
12 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.16%) PMO
15 2 (0.078%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
15 2 (0.078%) JSP 440
System Software
1 693 (27.11%) Active Directory
2 406 (15.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 255 (9.98%) Hyper-V
4 203 (7.94%) VMware ESXi
5 113 (4.42%) XenApp
5 113 (4.42%) XenDesktop
6 98 (3.83%) Microsoft App-V
7 60 (2.35%) vSphere
8 33 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 32 (1.25%) Docker
10 28 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
11 22 (0.86%) Firmware
12 12 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 11 (0.43%) KVM
13 11 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
14 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
15 8 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (0.27%) pfSense
17 4 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 187 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 162 (6.34%) SCCM
3 133 (5.20%) FortiGate
4 98 (3.83%) AirWatch
5 79 (3.09%) Ansible
6 63 (2.46%) Terraform
7 61 (2.39%) WSUS
8 35 (1.37%) Kubernetes
8 35 (1.37%) vCenter Server
9 31 (1.21%) Puppet
10 27 (1.06%) SCOM
11 26 (1.02%) Stealthwatch
12 25 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
13 24 (0.94%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.90%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.78%) CASB
16 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
18 17 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 16 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 949 (37.13%) Microsoft
2 657 (25.70%) VMware
3 441 (17.25%) Juniper
4 380 (14.87%) Meraki
5 351 (13.73%) Fortinet
6 340 (13.30%) Palo Alto
7 247 (9.66%) Citrix
8 216 (8.45%) HP
9 213 (8.33%) Aruba
10 158 (6.18%) CheckPoint
11 138 (5.40%) Veeam
12 132 (5.16%) SolarWinds
13 127 (4.97%) Dell
14 95 (3.72%) F5
15 92 (3.60%) Apple
16 87 (3.40%) NetApp
17 81 (3.17%) Ruckus Wireless
18 70 (2.74%) Red Hat
19 57 (2.23%) Google
20 52 (2.03%) Mitel