Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Nexus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 419 415
Rank change year-on-year -124 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 93 92 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 2.84% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 66
10th Percentile £367 £353 £424
25th Percentile £425 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £524 £588
90th Percentile £678 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £518
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £28.40 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £56.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £66.65 £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year -22.58% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,304 3,239 3,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.30% 11.61% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,539 2,071 2,257
10th Percentile £261 £214 £239
25th Percentile £400 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 168 152
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.61 £25.94
Median hourly rate £38.53 £34.00 £57.38
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -40.74% +1.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -10.71% -27.92% -14.04%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in England

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in England

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Nexus in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in England

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
London -126 25 £450 - 19
North of England -57 20 £500 +1.63% 5
South West -19 16 £510 -4.67% 3
Yorkshire -26 14 £500 +1.63% 3
South East -58 14 £463 -9.31% 7
Midlands -34 10 £475 -11.63% 3
West Midlands -41 9 £475 -11.63% 2
North West -43 5 £563 +29.43% 2
East Midlands -12 1 £475 - 1
East of England -24 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
Cisco Nexus
UK

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.43%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) AWS
3 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.23%) GitHub
6 2 (2.15%) GCP
6 2 (2.15%) IBM Watson
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.08%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 56 (60.22%) Firewall
2 46 (49.46%) BGP
2 46 (49.46%) WAN
3 42 (45.16%) LAN
4 39 (41.94%) OSPF
5 36 (38.71%) VLAN
6 31 (33.33%) Wireless
7 29 (31.18%) VPN
8 25 (26.88%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (25.81%) DNS
10 23 (24.73%) Network Security
11 21 (22.58%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (21.51%) Cisco Firepower
12 20 (21.51%) TCP/IP
12 20 (21.51%) VXLAN
13 17 (18.28%) MPLS
13 17 (18.28%) SD-WAN
14 16 (17.20%) IPsec
15 14 (15.05%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (13.98%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.23%) Git
3 2 (2.15%) JIRA
4 1 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.45%) Legal
4 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.38%) Finance
5 5 (5.38%) Police
5 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.23%) Retail
7 2 (2.15%) Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (64.52%) Network Engineer
2 18 (19.35%) Senior
3 14 (15.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Network Architect
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Lead Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Network Specialist
7 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.23%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Designer
8 3 (3.23%) Network Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Network Designer
8 3 (3.23%) NOC Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) 802.1X
2 6 (6.45%) Terraform
3 5 (5.38%) YAML
4 3 (3.23%) JSON
4 3 (3.23%) LDAP
4 3 (3.23%) REST
4 3 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (48.39%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.90%) PKI
3 9 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.45%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.30%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.08%) Celerra
8 1 (1.08%) CMDB
8 1 (1.08%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.08%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.08%) IBM XIV
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.15%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.08%) CatOS
5 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (18.28%) ITIL
3 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (15.05%) Mentoring
4 12 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
5 11 (11.83%) Migration
5 11 (11.83%) Network Architecture
6 10 (10.75%) Change Management
6 10 (10.75%) Load Balancing
6 10 (10.75%) Network Segmentation
6 10 (10.75%) Project Delivery
7 9 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (8.60%) High Availability
8 8 (8.60%) Roadmaps
8 8 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (7.53%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.53%) Commercial Awareness
9 7 (7.53%) Data Protection
9 7 (7.53%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.68%) Python
2 3 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (34.41%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (29.03%) CCNP
3 23 (24.73%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) CCIE
5 7 (7.53%) CCNA
5 7 (7.53%) Degree
6 4 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.23%) CCSE
7 3 (3.23%) CCSM
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.08%) CCNA CyberOps
9 1 (1.08%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.08%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) NCSC
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (11.83%) VMware NSX
3 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.30%) vSphere
6 3 (3.23%) Firmware
7 1 (1.08%) Docker
7 1 (1.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.38%) Ansible
3 3 (3.23%) Avamar
3 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.08%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.08%) Puppet
4 1 (1.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 93 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (35.48%) F5
3 30 (32.26%) Palo Alto
4 27 (29.03%) VMware
5 18 (19.35%) CheckPoint
6 14 (15.05%) Fortinet
7 13 (13.98%) Meraki
7 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
7 13 (13.98%) SolarWinds
8 7 (7.53%) Arista
8 7 (7.53%) Juniper
9 5 (5.38%) Aruba
10 4 (4.30%) Infoblox
10 4 (4.30%) NetApp
10 4 (4.30%) Riverbed
11 3 (3.23%) IBM
12 2 (2.15%) Forcepoint
12 2 (2.15%) Google
12 2 (2.15%) HP
12 2 (2.15%) Nokia