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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 413 393
Rank change year-on-year -103 -20 +120
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 66 75 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.74% 2.33% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 80
10th Percentile £300 £394 £297
25th Percentile £335 £447 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +31.25% -24.17%
75th Percentile £531 £605 £500
90th Percentile £659 £658 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £418
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.57% -17.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.61%

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 3,793 3,217 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.66% 13.18% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,394 2,010 3,087
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £486
% change year-on-year +1.54% +0.31% -5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 123 399
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.88 £17.69
Median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -6.25% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.92% -3.98% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -60 23 £540 +3.35% 1
South East -45 16 £425 -29.02% 6
South West -29 11 £495 -13.91% 9
West Midlands -52 8 £300 +62.16%
Midlands -63 8 £300 +62.16%
North of England -80 6 - - 4
North West -44 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -55 3 - - 1
East of England -35 1 £563 -6.25% 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 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) AWS
1 10 (15.15%) Azure
2 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (4.55%) GCP
2 3 (4.55%) IaaS
2 3 (4.55%) OCI
2 3 (4.55%) PaaS
2 3 (4.55%) SaaS
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.52%) Google Ads
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 44 (66.67%) Firewall
2 32 (48.48%) WAN
3 28 (42.42%) BGP
4 26 (39.39%) LAN
5 24 (36.36%) OSPF
6 23 (34.85%) VPN
7 17 (25.76%) Network Security
8 16 (24.24%) Wireless
9 15 (22.73%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (22.73%) VXLAN
10 12 (18.18%) NX-OS
11 11 (16.67%) BIG-IP
11 11 (16.67%) DNS
11 11 (16.67%) IPsec
11 11 (16.67%) SD-WAN
11 11 (16.67%) SSL
11 11 (16.67%) VLAN
11 11 (16.67%) Wireshark
12 10 (15.15%) MPLS
12 10 (15.15%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Retail
3 5 (7.58%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Legal
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Billing
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (71.21%) Network Engineer
2 7 (10.61%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Architect
3 6 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 3 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) IP Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Design Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) LDAP
1 8 (12.12%) SAML
2 4 (6.06%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.06%) VML
3 3 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.03%) Celerra
6 2 (3.03%) EMC Centera
6 2 (3.03%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (3.03%) EMC VNX
6 2 (3.03%) IBM XIV
6 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Symmetrix
6 2 (3.03%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.52%) iSeries
7 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) CatOS
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.52%) VMS
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.67%) Migration
2 10 (15.15%) Change Management
2 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (13.64%) ITIL
3 9 (13.64%) Load Balancing
4 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
5 7 (10.61%) Data Protection
5 7 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (9.09%) Network Design
7 5 (7.58%) High Availability
7 5 (7.58%) Network Architecture
7 5 (7.58%) Network Management
7 5 (7.58%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (6.06%) Commercial Awareness
8 4 (6.06%) Incident Management
8 4 (6.06%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (6.06%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (3.03%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (22.73%) CCNP
5 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
6 7 (10.61%) CCIE
7 4 (6.06%) Degree
8 3 (4.55%) CCNA
9 2 (3.03%) CCIP
9 2 (3.03%) CCSE
9 2 (3.03%) CCSM
9 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.03%) JNCIA
9 2 (3.03%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.03%) SLA
2 1 (1.52%) NCSC
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 11 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 5 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.03%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (3.03%) vCloud
6 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.52%) Firmware
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Ansible
2 8 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (7.58%) Terraform
4 3 (4.55%) Avamar
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (4.55%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.03%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (1.52%) CASB
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Nessus
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) SCOM
6 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 30 (45.45%) F5
3 26 (39.39%) Palo Alto
4 21 (31.82%) VMware
5 19 (28.79%) CheckPoint
6 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
7 11 (16.67%) Fortinet
8 10 (15.15%) Meraki
9 9 (13.64%) SolarWinds
10 8 (12.12%) Aruba
10 8 (12.12%) Juniper
11 3 (4.55%) Arista
11 3 (4.55%) NetApp
11 3 (4.55%) Veeam
12 2 (3.03%) 3PAR
12 2 (3.03%) Dell
12 2 (3.03%) EMC
12 2 (3.03%) HP
12 2 (3.03%) Infoblox
12 2 (3.03%) Isilon