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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 395 396
Rank change year-on-year -131 +1 +150
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 51 76 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 2.31% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 79
10th Percentile £293 £400 £300
25th Percentile £313 £463 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £416
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +32.10% -22.00%
75th Percentile £525 £623 £488
90th Percentile £610 £688 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £62.24
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - £66.74
90th Percentile - - £67.20
UK median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +6.42%

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 3,751 3,286 5,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 13.42% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,414 2,018 3,180
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £377 £371 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £490 £475
% change year-on-year - +3.16% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 115 375
10th Percentile £15.56 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -2.67% +97.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.14
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £32.52 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +84.21%

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 21 March 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
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 21 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
London -66 21 £500 -4.76% 6
South East -47 11 £463 -22.76% 5
West Midlands -56 7 £308 - 1
Midlands -58 7 £308 - 1
North of England -78 6 - - 8
South West -35 4 £500 -13.04%
North West -37 4 - - 5
Yorkshire -56 2 - - 2
East of England -21 1 £563 -6.25% 3
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:

Applications
1 10 (19.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 4 (7.84%) IaaS
3 4 (7.84%) PaaS
3 4 (7.84%) SaaS
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) OCI
5 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (70.59%) Firewall
2 29 (56.86%) WAN
3 22 (43.14%) VPN
4 21 (41.18%) BGP
4 21 (41.18%) LAN
5 17 (33.33%) OSPF
6 14 (27.45%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (27.45%) Network Security
6 14 (27.45%) Wireless
7 11 (21.57%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (21.57%) IPsec
8 10 (19.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (19.61%) Wireshark
9 9 (17.65%) DNS
9 9 (17.65%) MPLS
9 9 (17.65%) NX-OS
9 9 (17.65%) SSL
9 9 (17.65%) VXLAN
10 8 (15.69%) BIG-IP
10 8 (15.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Retail
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Legal
5 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Law
5 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Billing
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (80.39%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Senior
4 4 (7.84%) Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Network Architect
4 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Data Network Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Core Network Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Design Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) IP Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) IP Network Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) NOC Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Security Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Monitoring Specialist
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Technical Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) LDAP
1 7 (13.73%) SAML
2 4 (7.84%) VML
3 3 (5.88%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.80%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) CatOS
3 3 (5.88%) Linux
4 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Change Management
2 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (15.69%) Load Balancing
2 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.73%) ITIL
3 7 (13.73%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 6 (11.76%) Migration
4 6 (11.76%) Network Design
5 5 (9.80%) Data Protection
5 5 (9.80%) Network Architecture
6 4 (7.84%) High Availability
6 4 (7.84%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Management
6 4 (7.84%) Runbook
6 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (5.88%) Presales
7 3 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (5.88%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) Python
2 2 (3.92%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (27.45%) CCNP
3 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) CCIE
5 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.88%) CCNA
6 3 (5.88%) Degree
7 2 (3.92%) CCIP
7 2 (3.92%) CCSE
7 2 (3.92%) CCSM
7 2 (3.92%) JNCIA
7 2 (3.92%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.96%) CCDA
8 1 (1.96%) CCDP
8 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (17.65%) VMware NSX
3 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.92%) Firmware
5 2 (3.92%) vCloud
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Ansible
2 7 (13.73%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (9.80%) Terraform
4 3 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.96%) CASB
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (49.02%) Palo Alto
3 20 (39.22%) F5
4 17 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 16 (31.37%) VMware
6 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
7 11 (21.57%) Fortinet
7 11 (21.57%) Meraki
8 10 (19.61%) SolarWinds
9 9 (17.65%) Aruba
10 7 (13.73%) Juniper
11 3 (5.88%) Arista
12 2 (3.92%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
13 1 (1.96%) Dell
13 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
13 1 (1.96%) HP
13 1 (1.96%) McAfee
13 1 (1.96%) Veeam
13 1 (1.96%) Zscaler