Cisco Nexus Contracts

Cisco Nexus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Nexus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 546 642
Rank change year-on-year +106 +96 -145
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 158 174 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 2.36% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 100 123
10th Percentile £300 £361 £358
25th Percentile £350 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.74% +11.76%
75th Percentile £532 £612 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £475 £455
% change year-on-year -16.63% +4.40% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.68 £49.55
25th Percentile £58.50 £62.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +20.41% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.23 £54.00
90th Percentile - £69.61 £54.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £52.00
% change year-on-year +0.61% +20.41% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +128 145 £400 -25.06% 22
UK excluding London +76 99 £396 -16.63% 23
Work from Home +94 45 £345 -31.00% 7
London +81 44 £438 -30.00% 8
South East +52 41 £375 -16.67% 4
North of England +32 30 £396 -24.57% 4
North West +17 22 £416 -20.70% 2
Midlands +32 20 £600 +60.00% 1
West Midlands +35 15 - - 1
South West +11 9 £295 -37.89% 3
East of England +22 7 £375 -15.49% 2
North East +23 6 £375 -31.82%
East Midlands +22 5 £600 -
Yorkshire +12 2 £205 -61.14% 2

Cisco Nexus
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 4 (2.53%) Confluence
1 4 (2.53%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (8.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.56%) AWS
2 22 (13.92%) Azure
3 9 (5.70%) GCP
4 5 (3.16%) OCI
5 4 (2.53%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.27%) Datadog
6 2 (1.27%) GitHub
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 93 (58.86%) Firewall
2 56 (35.44%) Cisco ASA
3 49 (31.01%) LAN
4 47 (29.75%) WAN
5 46 (29.11%) OSPF
6 45 (28.48%) BGP
7 44 (27.85%) Wireless
8 42 (26.58%) VPN
9 37 (23.42%) MPLS
10 30 (18.99%) SD-WAN
11 29 (18.35%) DNS
12 25 (15.82%) IPsec
13 23 (14.56%) DHCP
13 23 (14.56%) DMZ
14 17 (10.76%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (10.13%) VLAN
16 15 (9.49%) EIGRP
16 15 (9.49%) Network Security
17 14 (8.86%) VXLAN
18 13 (8.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (13.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 39 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.89%) Finance
3 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.23%) Banking
4 13 (8.23%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.96%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Police
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 128 (81.01%) Network Engineer
2 20 (12.66%) Senior
3 17 (10.76%) Cisco Engineer
3 17 (10.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (8.23%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Network Support
5 12 (7.59%) Network Support Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Support Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Architect
6 11 (6.96%) Network Architect
7 10 (6.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Juniper Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Consultant
8 9 (5.70%) Network Consultant
8 9 (5.70%) Network Operations Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Operations Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (4.43%) Senior Network Consultant
10 6 (3.80%) Data Centre Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.53%) Web Services
3 3 (1.90%) EDI
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 62 (39.24%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.16%) Clustering
4 5 (3.16%) PKI
5 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.90%) CCTV
6 3 (1.90%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.90%) SCADA
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.13%) Linux
2 8 (5.06%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.35%) ITSM
2 26 (16.46%) High Availability
3 20 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.13%) Computer Science
5 14 (8.86%) Load Balancing
6 13 (8.23%) Change Control
6 13 (8.23%) Network Design
7 12 (7.59%) Design Patterns
7 12 (7.59%) Network Architecture
8 11 (6.96%) Roadmaps
9 10 (6.33%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (6.33%) Kalman Filter
9 10 (6.33%) Network Monitoring
10 9 (5.70%) Migration
10 9 (5.70%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (5.06%) ITIL
11 8 (5.06%) Problem Management
11 8 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (4.43%) Change Management
12 7 (4.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.19%) Python
2 8 (5.06%) Bash
3 3 (1.90%) Perl
3 3 (1.90%) SQL
4 2 (1.27%) C#
4 2 (1.27%) Go
4 2 (1.27%) Java
4 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (53.80%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (43.67%) CCNP
3 40 (25.32%) CCNA
4 26 (16.46%) Security Cleared
5 20 (12.66%) CCIE
6 19 (12.03%) Degree
7 13 (8.23%) SC Cleared
8 8 (5.06%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.80%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.80%) JNCIS
10 5 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.16%) CCDP
10 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.53%) CCIE Data Center
12 3 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) SLA
2 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (10.13%) VMware NSX
2 6 (3.80%) Firmware
2 6 (3.80%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.80%) KVM
2 6 (3.80%) vSphere
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) Ansible
2 12 (7.59%) Terraform
3 8 (5.06%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.43%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (3.16%) OpenView
6 3 (1.90%) Kibana
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.27%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.63%) Netcool
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.63%) SCCM
8 1 (0.63%) SCOM
8 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 153 (96.84%) Cisco
2 57 (36.08%) F5
3 49 (31.01%) Palo Alto
4 31 (19.62%) CheckPoint
5 28 (17.72%) Juniper
6 27 (17.09%) Fortinet
7 20 (12.66%) Infoblox
7 20 (12.66%) SolarWinds
8 19 (12.03%) VMware
9 11 (6.96%) Blue Coat
10 10 (6.33%) Microsoft
11 8 (5.06%) Arista
11 8 (5.06%) Aruba
11 8 (5.06%) Zscaler
12 7 (4.43%) Splunk
13 6 (3.80%) Meraki
13 6 (3.80%) Nokia
14 5 (3.16%) Google
15 3 (1.90%) AlgoSec
15 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow