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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 408 443
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 +166
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 97 118 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.99% 3.00% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 67 95
10th Percentile £381 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £438 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £563 £598 £660
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £36.63 - £62.38
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £65.98
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - £68.98
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £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 3,242 3,927 5,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 12.05% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,310 3,639
10th Percentile £235 £248 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £478 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.43% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 223 280
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.33 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.58 £23.07
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £51.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.69% -9.72% +34.50%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +38 65 £450 -13.46% 15
North of England -16 13 £491 +66.36%
Yorkshire -6 10 £492 +140.00%
Midlands -13 8 £525 +5.00% 1
West Midlands -11 7 £525 +5.00%
South East -3 5 £520 +4.00% 9
South West +23 4 £535 +18.89%
North West -19 3 £450 +52.54%
East of England -1 1 - -
East Midlands -3 1 - - 1
Cisco Nexus
UK

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.03%) CICS
1 1 (1.03%) Confluence
1 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.25%) Akamai
1 8 (8.25%) Azure
2 5 (5.15%) AWS
3 2 (2.06%) GCP
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) GitHub
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.03%) npm
4 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 70 (72.16%) Firewall
2 50 (51.55%) LAN
3 47 (48.45%) SD-WAN
4 44 (45.36%) WAN
5 35 (36.08%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (21.65%) BGP
7 20 (20.62%) OSPF
8 18 (18.56%) VPN
9 13 (13.40%) MPLS
10 12 (12.37%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (12.37%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (12.37%) Wireless
11 10 (10.31%) Ethernet
11 10 (10.31%) VXLAN
12 9 (9.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 9 (9.28%) Multicast
13 8 (8.25%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (8.25%) Network Security
14 7 (7.22%) SNMP
14 7 (7.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.09%) GitLab
3 2 (2.06%) Git
4 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
1 12 (12.37%) Telecoms
2 7 (7.22%) Law
3 6 (6.19%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Legal
4 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (58.76%) Network Engineer
2 26 (26.80%) Architect
3 21 (21.65%) Network Architect
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 11 (11.34%) Implementation Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Cisco Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Network Design Architect
6 10 (10.31%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Designer
9 5 (5.15%) Juniper Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Network Designer
10 4 (4.12%) Consultant
10 4 (4.12%) LAN Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Network Specialist
10 4 (4.12%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Technical Design Architect
11 3 (3.09%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) JSON
2 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.03%) CSS
2 1 (1.03%) HTML
2 1 (1.03%) Jest
2 1 (1.03%) LDAP
2 1 (1.03%) Middleware
2 1 (1.03%) React
2 1 (1.03%) REST
2 1 (1.03%) RESTful
2 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (45.36%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.15%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Clustering
5 1 (1.03%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Linux
3 1 (1.03%) MVS
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Solaris
3 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.56%) Network Design
2 16 (16.49%) Network Monitoring
3 12 (12.37%) High Availability
4 9 (9.28%) Analytics
5 8 (8.25%) Data Protection
5 8 (8.25%) ITIL
5 8 (8.25%) Load Balancing
5 8 (8.25%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (7.22%) Change Management
7 6 (6.19%) Migration
8 5 (5.15%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (5.15%) Problem Management
8 5 (5.15%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.15%) Security Management
9 4 (4.12%) Incident Response
9 4 (4.12%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (4.12%) Patch Management
9 4 (4.12%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (4.12%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (4.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.22%) Python
2 2 (2.06%) Java
3 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.03%) SQL
3 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (36.08%) Security Cleared
2 32 (32.99%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (32.99%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) CCNP
4 7 (7.22%) CCIE
5 5 (5.15%) CCNA
6 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.03%) CCSP
8 1 (1.03%) CISSP
8 1 (1.03%) Degree
8 1 (1.03%) GSEC
8 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.09%) Firmware
2 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.09%) KVM
3 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.03%) NFS
4 1 (1.03%) SRDF
4 1 (1.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (14.43%) Ansible
2 12 (12.37%) FortiGate
3 9 (9.28%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (4.12%) Terraform
5 3 (3.09%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.09%) OpenView
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.03%) Nagios
6 1 (1.03%) OPNET
6 1 (1.03%) Puppet
6 1 (1.03%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (100.00%) Cisco
2 43 (44.33%) Fortinet
3 28 (28.87%) F5
4 21 (21.65%) SolarWinds
5 20 (20.62%) Palo Alto
6 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
7 12 (12.37%) Juniper
8 11 (11.34%) CheckPoint
9 9 (9.28%) VMware
10 6 (6.19%) Aruba
10 6 (6.19%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (5.15%) Arista
11 5 (5.15%) Meraki
12 3 (3.09%) AlgoSec
12 3 (3.09%) Infoblox
12 3 (3.09%) NetScout
12 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
12 3 (3.09%) Splunk
13 2 (2.06%) NetApp
13 2 (2.06%) Qualys