Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cisco Nexus
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 39 51
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +29
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.51% 1.81% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.17% 11.36% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £561 -
25th Percentile £513 £566 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +23.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £630 £525
90th Percentile - - £540
South East median daily rate £363 £599 £405
% change year-on-year -39.38% +47.84% -26.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

Cisco Nexus falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 44 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.80% 15.88% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 88
10th Percentile £130 £140 £203
25th Percentile £425 £363 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £560
90th Percentile £643 £666 £825
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 18
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.51
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
75th Percentile - - £44.06
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year -22.05% +7.78% +28.87%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Nexus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -15 3 £525 -12.68% 4
Cisco Nexus
South East

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (66.67%) NX-OS
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) CCDA
3 1 (33.33%) CCDP
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vCloud
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler