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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 394 385
Rank change year-on-year -141 -9 +135
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 48 85 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.31% 2.47% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 76
10th Percentile £300 £377 £306
25th Percentile £318 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £525 £630 £491
90th Percentile £584 £685 £569
UK median daily rate £425 £520 £433
% change year-on-year -18.27% +20.23% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £61.49
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.89
UK median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +5.37%

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 3,667 3,446 5,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 13.41% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 2,078 3,231
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £370 £350
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 £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 111 373
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £20.13 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%

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 7 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 7 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 -56 20 £500 -4.76% 6
South East -32 10 £363 -39.38% 7
West Midlands -49 6 £340 -32.00% 1
Midlands -61 6 £340 -32.00% 1
North of England -83 6 - - 6
North West -50 4 - - 4
South West -35 3 £400 -25.58% 3
East of England -23 2 £563 +104.55% 1
Yorkshire -63 2 - - 2
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 9 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) IaaS
3 4 (8.33%) PaaS
3 4 (8.33%) SaaS
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 3 (6.25%) OCI
5 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (70.83%) Firewall
2 29 (60.42%) WAN
3 22 (45.83%) LAN
4 21 (43.75%) BGP
4 21 (43.75%) VPN
5 17 (35.42%) OSPF
6 14 (29.17%) Wireless
7 13 (27.08%) Cisco IOS
8 12 (25.00%) Network Security
9 11 (22.92%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (20.83%) IPsec
10 10 (20.83%) SD-WAN
10 10 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (18.75%) Wireshark
12 8 (16.67%) DNS
12 8 (16.67%) MPLS
12 8 (16.67%) NX-OS
12 8 (16.67%) SSL
12 8 (16.67%) VXLAN
13 7 (14.58%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Legal
2 4 (8.33%) Retail
3 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Law
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Core Network Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IP Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Monitoring Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) Network Monitoring Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) LDAP
1 6 (12.50%) SAML
2 4 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 4 (8.33%) VML
3 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) CatOS
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Change Management
1 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (14.58%) Migration
3 6 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 5 (10.42%) ITIL
4 5 (10.42%) Network Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) Network Design
4 5 (10.42%) Network Management
4 5 (10.42%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 4 (8.33%) High Availability
5 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (8.33%) Runbook
5 4 (8.33%) Task Automation
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 3 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) CCNP
2 14 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) CCIE
4 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.33%) Degree
6 3 (6.25%) CCNA
7 2 (4.17%) CCIP
7 2 (4.17%) JNCIA
7 2 (4.17%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.08%) CCDA
8 1 (2.08%) CCDP
8 1 (2.08%) CCSA
8 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.08%) NCSC
1 1 (2.08%) NIST
1 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.17%) Firmware
5 2 (4.17%) vCloud
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.08%) CASB
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Nessus
5 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (45.83%) Palo Alto
3 16 (33.33%) F5
4 14 (29.17%) CheckPoint
5 13 (27.08%) Meraki
5 13 (27.08%) VMware
6 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
7 9 (18.75%) Aruba
7 9 (18.75%) Fortinet
7 9 (18.75%) SolarWinds
8 7 (14.58%) Juniper
9 3 (6.25%) Arista
10 2 (4.17%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.08%) Dell
11 1 (2.08%) EMC
11 1 (2.08%) HP
11 1 (2.08%) McAfee
11 1 (2.08%) NetScout
11 1 (2.08%) Sophos
11 1 (2.08%) Veeam