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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 400 410
Rank change year-on-year -66 +10 +155
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 71 96 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 2.60% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 55 83
10th Percentile £335 £379 £313
25th Percentile £400 £463 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £544
90th Percentile £575 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
UK median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 3,402 3,689 5,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.77% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 2,164 3,272
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 116 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £37.25 £56.40
% change year-on-year -8.72% -33.95% +37.46%

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 20 December 2025.

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
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 20 December 2025. 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 +19 51 £450 -14.29% 4
South East -43 6 £430 -18.10% 5
North of England -59 5 £335 -25.56% 1
West Midlands -29 4 £340 -32.00% 2
North West -33 4 £335 -36.19% 1
Midlands -36 4 £340 -32.00% 2
South West -3 3 £400 -20.00% 2
East of England -27 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -51 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 1 (1.41%) CICS
1 1 (1.41%) Confluence
1 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.41%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 5 (7.04%) AWS
3 4 (5.63%) Akamai
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) IaaS
6 1 (1.41%) PaaS
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (85.92%) Firewall
2 43 (60.56%) LAN
3 41 (57.75%) Wi-Fi
4 34 (47.89%) SD-WAN
5 32 (45.07%) WAN
6 18 (25.35%) BGP
6 18 (25.35%) VPN
7 17 (23.94%) OSPF
8 12 (16.90%) Network Security
9 10 (14.08%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (12.68%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (11.27%) Wireless
11 8 (11.27%) Wireshark
12 6 (8.45%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (7.04%) Internet
13 5 (7.04%) MPLS
13 5 (7.04%) SNMP
13 5 (7.04%) VoIP
13 5 (7.04%) VXLAN
14 4 (5.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Retail
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (56.34%) Network Engineer
2 25 (35.21%) Architect
3 20 (28.17%) Network Architect
4 10 (14.08%) Network Design Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Cisco Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Designer
7 5 (7.04%) Network Designer
7 5 (7.04%) Network Specialist
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Network Design Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Design Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Cisco Network Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Data Centre Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Firewall Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) 802.1X
1 4 (5.63%) LDAP
1 4 (5.63%) VML
2 3 (4.23%) SAML
3 1 (1.41%) Middleware
3 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (38.03%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.41%) Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.41%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) CatOS
3 1 (1.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) MVS
3 1 (1.41%) Solaris
3 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Network Design
2 9 (12.68%) High Availability
2 9 (12.68%) Load Balancing
2 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
4 7 (9.86%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (8.45%) Migration
6 5 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.04%) Data Protection
6 5 (7.04%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (5.63%) Change Management
7 4 (5.63%) Network Architecture
7 4 (5.63%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (4.23%) AI
8 3 (4.23%) B2B
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps
8 3 (4.23%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.23%) Low Latency
8 3 (4.23%) Network Management
8 3 (4.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
2 1 (1.41%) Java
2 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 19 (26.76%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (25.35%) CCNP
5 10 (14.08%) CCIE
6 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.82%) CCNA
7 2 (2.82%) Degree
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.41%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.41%) CCSA
8 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.23%) KVM
5 1 (1.41%) Firmware
5 1 (1.41%) NFS
5 1 (1.41%) SRDF
5 1 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Ansible
2 7 (9.86%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.63%) Terraform
4 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 35 (49.30%) Fortinet
3 22 (30.99%) F5
4 21 (29.58%) Palo Alto
5 11 (15.49%) CheckPoint
5 11 (15.49%) Meraki
5 11 (15.49%) SolarWinds
6 9 (12.68%) Juniper
7 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
7 8 (11.27%) VMware
8 7 (9.86%) Aruba
9 3 (4.23%) Arista
9 3 (4.23%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (4.23%) NetScout
10 2 (2.82%) EMC
10 2 (2.82%) NetApp
10 2 (2.82%) Qualys
11 1 (1.41%) Commvault
11 1 (1.41%) IBM
11 1 (1.41%) Oracle