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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 413 424
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +162
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 82 106 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.43% 2.81% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 61 90
10th Percentile £347 £413 £324
25th Percentile £406 £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £518 £588 £538
90th Percentile £578 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.58
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,381 3,773 5,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.48% 12.13% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,183 2,185 3,501
10th Percentile £213 £230 £213
25th Percentile £362 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £687 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 127 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.05
25th Percentile £20.00 £27.00 £23.32
Median hourly rate £32.77 £52.50 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -37.58% -6.99% +29.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +34.05%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +5 56 £450 -14.29% 22
North of England -34 12 £491 -10.77% 5
Yorkshire -21 10 £492 +78.91%
South East -20 6 £510 +2.00% 19
Midlands -32 5 £403 -19.50% 3
West Midlands -26 4 £403 -19.50% 1
East of England -19 2 - - 1
North West -23 2 £335 -39.09% 2
South West +7 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 (1.22%) CICS
1 1 (1.22%) Confluence
1 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.76%) Akamai
2 7 (8.54%) Azure
3 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 2 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.22%) GitHub
5 1 (1.22%) IaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.22%) npm
5 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.22%) PaaS
5 1 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (75.61%) Firewall
2 44 (53.66%) SD-WAN
3 41 (50.00%) LAN
4 37 (45.12%) WAN
5 36 (43.90%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (18.29%) BGP
6 15 (18.29%) OSPF
7 13 (15.85%) VPN
8 11 (13.41%) Cisco ISE
8 11 (13.41%) Wireless
9 9 (10.98%) Ethernet
9 9 (10.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (9.76%) Network Security
11 7 (8.54%) SNMP
11 7 (8.54%) Wireshark
12 6 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (7.32%) DNS
13 5 (6.10%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (6.10%) MPLS
13 5 (6.10%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 12 (14.63%) Telecoms
2 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Law
5 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.44%) Legal
6 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (57.32%) Network Engineer
2 25 (30.49%) Architect
3 20 (24.39%) Network Architect
4 10 (12.20%) Network Design Architect
5 9 (10.98%) Implementation Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Senior
6 7 (8.54%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Designer
8 5 (6.10%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Network Designer
8 5 (6.10%) Network Specialist
8 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.22%) CSS
2 1 (1.22%) HTML
2 1 (1.22%) Jest
2 1 (1.22%) LDAP
2 1 (1.22%) Middleware
2 1 (1.22%) React
2 1 (1.22%) REST
2 1 (1.22%) RESTful
2 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (43.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.88%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.22%) Clustering
4 1 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.22%) FlexPod
4 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.22%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Replication
4 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) MVS
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Solaris
3 1 (1.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.95%) Network Design
2 11 (13.41%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (10.98%) Analytics
3 9 (10.98%) High Availability
4 8 (9.76%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (7.32%) Data Protection
5 6 (7.32%) Load Balancing
6 5 (6.10%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (4.88%) DevOps
7 4 (4.88%) Migration
7 4 (4.88%) Network Architecture
7 4 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (4.88%) Zero Trust
8 3 (3.66%) AI
8 3 (3.66%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (3.66%) Change Management
8 3 (3.66%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (3.66%) Incident Management
8 3 (3.66%) ITIL
8 3 (3.66%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.54%) Python
2 2 (2.44%) Java
3 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.22%) SQL
3 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (35.37%) SC Cleared
1 29 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (34.15%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (18.29%) CCNP
4 7 (8.54%) CCIE
5 4 (4.88%) CCNA
6 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.44%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (2.44%) Degree
8 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.22%) CCSA
8 1 (1.22%) CCSP
8 1 (1.22%) CISSP
8 1 (1.22%) GSEC
8 1 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.66%) KVM
3 2 (2.44%) Firmware
3 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.22%) NFS
4 1 (1.22%) SRDF
4 1 (1.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Ansible
2 12 (14.63%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.88%) Cisco Prime
3 4 (4.88%) Terraform
4 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.44%) OpenView
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.22%) Puppet
6 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (48.78%) Fortinet
3 24 (29.27%) F5
4 18 (21.95%) SolarWinds
5 17 (20.73%) Palo Alto
6 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
7 11 (13.41%) Juniper
8 7 (8.54%) Meraki
8 7 (8.54%) VMware
9 6 (7.32%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (6.10%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.88%) Aruba
12 3 (3.66%) Arista
12 3 (3.66%) NetScout
13 2 (2.44%) AlgoSec
13 2 (2.44%) EMC
13 2 (2.44%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.44%) NetApp
13 2 (2.44%) Qualys
14 1 (1.22%) Riverbed