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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 107 147
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -45
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 2,495 2,981 4,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 3.14% 2.87%
As % of the Vendors category 6.73% 7.57% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,016 1,960 2,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,250 £46,223
% change year-on-year +4.97% -2.10% +2.72%

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 37,055 39,374 65,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.21% 41.54% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,982 23,486 33,183
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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

Cisco
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 18 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 2 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 +12 2,267 £50,000 - 493
UK excluding London -14 1,759 £47,500 +4.97% 398
Work from Home -26 794 £54,500 +3.81% 192
London +16 640 £57,500 -4.17% 151
South East +5 539 £50,000 +5.26% 112
North of England +5 436 £45,000 -4.26% 64
Midlands +2 329 £45,000 -0.28% 87
West Midlands +41 247 £45,000 - 66
North West -25 237 £48,250 +1.58% 38
South West +4 215 £49,000 +11.68% 45
Yorkshire +36 147 £47,500 - 21
East of England -17 125 £47,500 -5.00% 37
East Midlands -69 78 £44,225 -6.90% 21
Scotland -110 74 £42,500 +6.25% 47
Wales +5 59 £44,886 +8.81% 16
North East -8 55 £41,500 -2.35% 6
Isle of Man - 10 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland -15 2 - - 5

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
1 276 (11.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.76%) Skype for Business
4 26 (1.04%) IIS
5 15 (0.60%) SharePoint 2013
6 14 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
7 10 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2000
9 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) WordPress
11 2 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.040%) Apache
12 1 (0.040%) CMS
12 1 (0.040%) Confluence
12 1 (0.040%) SAS
12 1 (0.040%) WebLogic
Applications
1 132 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.040%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.040%) HiPortfolio
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 822 (32.95%) Azure
2 635 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
3 324 (12.99%) AWS
4 139 (5.57%) Entra ID
5 105 (4.21%) GCP
6 78 (3.13%) IaaS
7 67 (2.69%) PaaS
8 65 (2.61%) SaaS
9 58 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
10 41 (1.64%) Mimecast
11 38 (1.52%) OneDrive
12 26 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (0.88%) Rubrik
14 18 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (0.60%) OCI
17 14 (0.56%) Nutanix
17 14 (0.56%) Power Platform
18 13 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
19 11 (0.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1,077 (43.17%) Firewall
2 854 (34.23%) WAN
3 598 (23.97%) LAN
4 442 (17.72%) Wireless
5 425 (17.03%) SD-WAN
6 398 (15.95%) VPN
7 348 (13.95%) Network Security
8 334 (13.39%) Wi-Fi
9 318 (12.75%) DNS
10 288 (11.54%) BGP
11 268 (10.74%) DHCP
12 265 (10.62%) MPLS
13 225 (9.02%) TCP/IP
14 223 (8.94%) VLAN
15 213 (8.54%) OSPF
16 163 (6.53%) Cisco IOS
17 150 (6.01%) Cisco Firepower
18 133 (5.33%) Cisco ASA
19 127 (5.09%) SAN
20 98 (3.93%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 18 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.60%) MySQL
4 11 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 11 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.28%) DB2
7 6 (0.24%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.24%) Power BI
8 5 (0.20%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.16%) Big Data
9 4 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.12%) Metadata
10 3 (0.12%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.080%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.080%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.080%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (1.32%) JIRA
2 17 (0.68%) GitLab
3 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.28%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.080%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.080%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.080%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.040%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 608 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 248 (9.94%) Finance
3 170 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (6.53%) Telecoms
5 83 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (3.13%) Law
7 73 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 73 (2.93%) Retail
8 54 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 53 (2.12%) Legal
10 50 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (1.52%) Automotive
12 33 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 32 (1.28%) Marketing
14 28 (1.12%) Banking
15 26 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (0.96%) Games
18 22 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 763 (30.58%) Network Engineer
2 445 (17.84%) Senior
3 280 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 233 (9.34%) Support Engineer
5 219 (8.78%) IT Support
6 200 (8.02%) Senior Network Engineer
7 187 (7.49%) IT Engineer
8 186 (7.45%) Analyst
9 168 (6.73%) Architect
10 126 (5.05%) Lead
11 94 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 90 (3.61%) Cisco Engineer
13 78 (3.13%) IT Manager
13 78 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
13 78 (3.13%) Support Specialist
14 71 (2.85%) Consultant
15 70 (2.81%) Security Engineer
16 69 (2.77%) 3rd Line Support
17 68 (2.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
17 68 (2.73%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (1.96%) 802.1X
2 23 (0.92%) XML
3 17 (0.68%) LDAP
4 15 (0.60%) JSON
5 13 (0.52%) YAML
6 12 (0.48%) NETCONF
7 11 (0.44%) REST
7 11 (0.44%) RESTCONF
7 11 (0.44%) SOAP
7 11 (0.44%) YANG
8 10 (0.40%) HTML
9 9 (0.36%) XMPP
10 7 (0.28%) Web Services
11 5 (0.20%) SAML
11 5 (0.20%) WebSphere MQ
12 4 (0.16%) Akka
12 4 (0.16%) RESTful
13 2 (0.080%) V-Ray
13 2 (0.080%) WebRTC
13 2 (0.080%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 422 (16.91%) Data Centre
2 135 (5.41%) Driving Licence
3 122 (4.89%) Video Conferencing
4 119 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 94 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 72 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
7 66 (2.65%) Wiki
8 57 (2.28%) Replication
9 32 (1.28%) CCTV
9 32 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (1.12%) IoT
12 23 (0.92%) PKI
13 21 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (0.80%) Private Cloud
15 18 (0.72%) Clustering
16 17 (0.68%) PMI
17 16 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 16 (0.64%) Virtual Team
18 15 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 808 (32.38%) Windows
2 445 (17.84%) Windows Server
3 324 (12.99%) Linux
4 267 (10.70%) Windows 10
5 94 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 92 (3.69%) Android
7 81 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 71 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 53 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 38 (1.52%) CentOS
10 38 (1.52%) Unix
10 38 (1.52%) Windows 7
11 33 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 32 (1.28%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.72%) Mac OS X
14 18 (0.72%) VyOS
15 12 (0.48%) Windows XP
16 9 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
17 8 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (16.43%) ITIL
2 409 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 349 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
5 272 (10.90%) Customer Service
6 210 (8.42%) Project Delivery
7 179 (7.17%) Project Management
8 167 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 163 (6.53%) Computer Science
10 149 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (5.69%) Incident Management
12 137 (5.49%) Agile
13 136 (5.45%) Presales
14 133 (5.33%) Mentoring
15 123 (4.93%) Business Continuity
16 119 (4.77%) Time Management
17 112 (4.49%) Service Delivery
18 110 (4.41%) Network Management
18 110 (4.41%) Network Monitoring
19 108 (4.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 182 (7.29%) PowerShell
2 123 (4.93%) Python
3 107 (4.29%) SQL
4 58 (2.32%) Bash
5 26 (1.04%) C#
6 25 (1.00%) Java
6 25 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.64%) Perl
8 13 (0.52%) VBScript
9 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.28%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) C
12 4 (0.16%) Lua
12 4 (0.16%) Ruby
12 4 (0.16%) Tcl
13 2 (0.080%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.080%) R
13 2 (0.080%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.080%) VB
14 1 (0.040%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 777 (31.14%) Cisco Certification
2 493 (19.76%) CCNA
3 482 (19.32%) CCNP
4 472 (18.92%) Security Cleared
5 424 (16.99%) Degree
6 262 (10.50%) SC Cleared
7 164 (6.57%) DV Cleared
8 141 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 110 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 103 (4.13%) Master's Degree
11 85 (3.41%) Azure Certification
12 81 (3.25%) CCIE
13 61 (2.44%) MCSE
14 60 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
15 58 (2.32%) JNCIA
16 40 (1.60%) MCSA
17 39 (1.56%) CISSP
18 35 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 33 (1.32%) A+ Certification
20 30 (1.20%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.09%) SLA
2 91 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 45 (1.80%) GDPR
5 28 (1.12%) NIST
6 20 (0.80%) QA
7 18 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 11 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.36%) COSHH
11 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.28%) NCSC
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) PMO
17 2 (0.080%) NIST 800
System Software
1 630 (25.25%) Active Directory
2 395 (15.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 244 (9.78%) Hyper-V
4 161 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 83 (3.33%) XenApp
5 83 (3.33%) XenDesktop
6 62 (2.48%) Microsoft App-V
7 58 (2.32%) vSphere
8 41 (1.64%) VMware NSX
9 31 (1.24%) Docker
10 26 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
11 20 (0.80%) Firmware
12 12 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
13 11 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 11 (0.44%) KVM
14 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
14 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.32%) pfSense
16 7 (0.28%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 182 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 140 (5.61%) FortiGate
3 135 (5.41%) SCCM
4 78 (3.13%) Ansible
5 63 (2.53%) AirWatch
6 62 (2.48%) Terraform
7 55 (2.20%) WSUS
8 34 (1.36%) Kubernetes
8 34 (1.36%) Stealthwatch
8 34 (1.36%) vCenter Server
9 31 (1.24%) Puppet
10 24 (0.96%) ZABBIX
11 23 (0.92%) CASB
11 23 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 22 (0.88%) SCOM
13 21 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
14 18 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
16 16 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 917 (36.75%) Microsoft
2 648 (25.97%) VMware
3 448 (17.96%) Juniper
4 392 (15.71%) Meraki
5 361 (14.47%) Fortinet
6 334 (13.39%) Palo Alto
7 222 (8.90%) HP
8 207 (8.30%) Citrix
9 198 (7.94%) Aruba
10 148 (5.93%) CheckPoint
11 139 (5.57%) Veeam
12 138 (5.53%) Dell
13 133 (5.33%) SolarWinds
14 103 (4.13%) F5
15 101 (4.05%) Apple
16 88 (3.53%) NetApp
17 76 (3.05%) Ruckus Wireless
18 66 (2.65%) Red Hat
19 61 (2.44%) Google
20 51 (2.04%) Mitel