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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 545 668
Rank change year-on-year +115 +123 -162
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 157 153 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.87% 2.12% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 80 119
10th Percentile £300 £349 £381
25th Percentile £350 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -6.31% +19.29%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £581
90th Percentile £638 £689 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £425 £494
% change year-on-year -6.82% -13.92% +16.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £56.68 -
25th Percentile - £62.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate - £62.62 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £51.75
90th Percentile - £69.61 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.62 £50.50
% change year-on-year - +23.99% +1.00%

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 5,474 7,207 9,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 4,657 6,246
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 472 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%

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 12 May 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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 145 £400 -20.00% 18
UK excluding London +84 95 £396 -6.82% 18
London +84 47 £475 -24.00% 8
Work from Home +79 44 £350 -22.22% 9
South East +44 41 £375 -16.67% 5
North of England +33 30 £396 -1.00% 2
North West +30 22 £416 +28.11% 1
Midlands +36 18 £600 +41.18% 1
West Midlands +20 13 - - 1
East of England +11 7 £375 -13.04% 2
South West +1 7 £295 -37.89%
North East - 6 £375 -
East Midlands +25 5 £600 +26.32%
Yorkshire +16 2 £205 -56.84% 1

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 (2.55%) Confluence
1 4 (2.55%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (9.55%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (8.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.65%) AWS
2 21 (13.38%) Azure
3 9 (5.73%) GCP
4 5 (3.18%) OCI
5 4 (2.55%) 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 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 92 (58.60%) Firewall
2 54 (34.39%) Cisco ASA
3 48 (30.57%) OSPF
4 45 (28.66%) BGP
4 45 (28.66%) LAN
4 45 (28.66%) Wireless
5 43 (27.39%) VPN
5 43 (27.39%) WAN
6 36 (22.93%) MPLS
7 31 (19.75%) SD-WAN
8 28 (17.83%) DNS
9 25 (15.92%) DMZ
10 23 (14.65%) DHCP
10 23 (14.65%) IPsec
11 18 (11.46%) EIGRP
12 16 (10.19%) Cisco IOS
12 16 (10.19%) VLAN
13 15 (9.55%) Network Security
13 15 (9.55%) VXLAN
14 13 (8.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (14.01%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.91%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.29%) Finance
3 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.83%) Banking
5 13 (8.28%) Investment Banking
5 13 (8.28%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (82.80%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.10%) Senior
3 17 (10.83%) Cisco Engineer
3 17 (10.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Juniper Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Network Support
4 12 (7.64%) Network Support Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (7.64%) Support Engineer
5 9 (5.73%) Architect
5 9 (5.73%) Consultant
5 9 (5.73%) Network Architect
5 9 (5.73%) Network Consultant
5 9 (5.73%) Network Operations Engineer
5 9 (5.73%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
6 7 (4.46%) Senior Network Consultant
7 6 (3.82%) Data Centre Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.01%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.55%) Web Services
3 3 (1.91%) EDI
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 59 (37.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.18%) Clustering
2 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.55%) PKI
4 3 (1.91%) CCTV
4 3 (1.91%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.91%) SCADA
5 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.19%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.75%) ITSM
2 28 (17.83%) High Availability
3 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (9.55%) Change Control
4 15 (9.55%) Computer Science
4 15 (9.55%) Design Patterns
5 13 (8.28%) Load Balancing
5 13 (8.28%) Network Design
6 12 (7.64%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (7.64%) Network Architecture
7 11 (7.01%) Network Monitoring
7 11 (7.01%) Roadmaps
8 9 (5.73%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (5.73%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (5.10%) Change Management
9 8 (5.10%) ITIL
9 8 (5.10%) Problem Management
10 7 (4.46%) Agile
10 7 (4.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (4.46%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.92%) Python
2 8 (5.10%) Bash
3 3 (1.91%) Perl
3 3 (1.91%) 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 (54.14%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (43.95%) CCNP
3 41 (26.11%) CCNA
4 24 (15.29%) Security Cleared
5 19 (12.10%) CCIE
6 18 (11.46%) Degree
7 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.82%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.82%) JNCIS
10 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.18%) CCDP
10 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.55%) CCIE Data Center
12 3 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (10.19%) VMware NSX
2 6 (3.82%) Firmware
2 6 (3.82%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.82%) KVM
2 6 (3.82%) vSphere
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (9.55%) Ansible
2 12 (7.64%) Terraform
3 8 (5.10%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.46%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (3.18%) OpenView
6 3 (1.91%) Kibana
7 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.27%) Puppet
7 2 (1.27%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.64%) Netcool
8 1 (0.64%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.64%) SCCM
8 1 (0.64%) SCOM
8 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 152 (96.82%) Cisco
2 57 (36.31%) F5
3 49 (31.21%) Palo Alto
4 34 (21.66%) CheckPoint
5 30 (19.11%) Fortinet
5 30 (19.11%) Juniper
6 20 (12.74%) Infoblox
6 20 (12.74%) SolarWinds
7 19 (12.10%) VMware
8 13 (8.28%) Blue Coat
9 10 (6.37%) Aruba
9 10 (6.37%) Microsoft
10 9 (5.73%) Arista
11 8 (5.10%) Zscaler
12 7 (4.46%) Splunk
13 6 (3.82%) Meraki
13 6 (3.82%) Nokia
14 5 (3.18%) Google
15 3 (1.91%) AlgoSec
15 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow