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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 385 407
Rank change year-on-year -149 +22 +80
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 84 121 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 3.52% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 80 80
10th Percentile £371 £400 £297
25th Percentile £425 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £550
90th Percentile £725 £638 £590
UK median daily rate £475 £492 £470
% change year-on-year -3.46% +4.68% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £28.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year -22.58% - -

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 4,250 3,433 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.65% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,122 2,833
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 158 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.04 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +1.74% +39.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.34% +10.47% +39.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -103 25 £525 +5.00% 14
South East -50 20 £463 -7.50% 5
South West -31 17 £498 -13.48% 1
North of England -81 12 £500 +1.63% 9
Yorkshire -60 6 £500 +2.15% 6
North West -47 5 £626 +15.39% 3
Midlands -61 5 £413 -21.43% 1
West Midlands -67 5 £413 -21.43% 1
East of England -20 2 £563 -6.25%
North East - 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 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) AWS
3 6 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.19%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.19%) OCI
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Route 53
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (61.90%) Firewall
2 40 (47.62%) BGP
3 38 (45.24%) WAN
4 35 (41.67%) OSPF
5 31 (36.90%) LAN
6 30 (35.71%) VLAN
7 23 (27.38%) VPN
7 23 (27.38%) VXLAN
8 21 (25.00%) SD-WAN
9 20 (23.81%) Network Security
10 18 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (21.43%) DNS
11 17 (20.24%) Wireless
12 16 (19.05%) MPLS
13 15 (17.86%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (16.67%) IPsec
15 12 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 12 (14.29%) NX-OS
15 12 (14.29%) TCP/IP
15 12 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.14%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.95%) Legal
5 5 (5.95%) Retail
6 4 (4.76%) Police
6 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Banking
9 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (60.71%) Network Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Architect
3 11 (13.10%) Network Architect
4 7 (8.33%) Senior
5 6 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Lead
6 5 (5.95%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Lead Architect
7 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) IP Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) IP Network Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 4 (4.76%) LDAP
2 4 (4.76%) REST
2 4 (4.76%) SAML
3 2 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (46.43%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.33%) PKI
4 6 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.57%) Celerra
7 3 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.57%) EMC Centera
7 3 (3.57%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (3.57%) EMC VNX
7 3 (3.57%) IBM XIV
7 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.57%) Symmetrix
7 3 (3.57%) Symmetrix DMX
8 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.38%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 8 (9.52%) Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) CatOS
4 1 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.19%) VMS
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.43%) ITIL
2 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (15.48%) Mentoring
3 13 (15.48%) Migration
3 13 (15.48%) Network Monitoring
4 12 (14.29%) Change Management
4 12 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 12 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 12 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 9 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (9.52%) Network Design
7 7 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (8.33%) Network Management
7 7 (8.33%) Presales
7 7 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.33%) Zero Trust
8 6 (7.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (2.38%) ActionScript
2 2 (2.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (30.95%) CCNP
2 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
3 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.52%) CCNA
5 8 (9.52%) Degree
6 5 (5.95%) CCIE
6 5 (5.95%) CCSE
6 5 (5.95%) CCSM
7 4 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.38%) CCIP
9 2 (2.38%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.38%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.19%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) NCSC
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 11 (13.10%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
5 6 (7.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.95%) vSphere
7 3 (3.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (3.57%) Firmware
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Ansible
2 6 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.95%) Avamar
4 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.57%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.19%) CASB
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.19%) Grafana
7 1 (1.19%) Nessus
7 1 (1.19%) SCCM
7 1 (1.19%) SCOM
7 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (44.05%) F5
3 30 (35.71%) VMware
4 29 (34.52%) Palo Alto
5 18 (21.43%) Fortinet
6 16 (19.05%) CheckPoint
7 14 (16.67%) SolarWinds
8 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
9 10 (11.90%) Juniper
10 5 (5.95%) NetApp
11 4 (4.76%) Arista
11 4 (4.76%) Aruba
11 4 (4.76%) HP
11 4 (4.76%) IBM
11 4 (4.76%) Meraki
11 4 (4.76%) Veeam
12 3 (3.57%) 3PAR
12 3 (3.57%) Brocade
12 3 (3.57%) EMC
13 2 (2.38%) Nokia