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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 418 441
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +126
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 92 115 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 2.94% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 66 94
10th Percentile £354 £424 £325
25th Percentile £406 £463 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £581 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £518 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £36.63 - £63.58
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £65.98
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
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 3,276 3,906 5,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 12.18% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,092 2,254 3,512
10th Percentile £219 £243 £220
25th Percentile £360 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 146 306
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.32 £26.25 £23.02
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.98% -14.04% +39.22%

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 October 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 16 October 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 +34 61 £450 -16.28% 8
North of England -24 13 £492 +19.27% 1
Yorkshire -20 10 £492 +78.91%
Midlands -19 7 £538 +7.50% 1
South East -16 6 £510 +2.00% 6
West Midlands -16 6 £538 +7.50%
South West +11 4 £535 +18.89% 1
North West -24 3 £435 -20.91%
East of England -6 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 (1.09%) CICS
1 1 (1.09%) Confluence
1 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.78%) Azure
2 8 (8.70%) Akamai
3 5 (5.43%) AWS
4 2 (2.17%) GCP
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.09%) GitHub
5 1 (1.09%) IaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.09%) npm
5 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.09%) PaaS
5 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (73.91%) Firewall
2 49 (53.26%) LAN
3 47 (51.09%) SD-WAN
4 44 (47.83%) WAN
5 38 (41.30%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (21.74%) BGP
6 20 (21.74%) OSPF
7 18 (19.57%) VPN
8 13 (14.13%) Wireless
9 12 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (10.87%) MPLS
11 9 (9.78%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (9.78%) Ethernet
11 9 (9.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (9.78%) Network Security
12 7 (7.61%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (7.61%) DNS
12 7 (7.61%) Multicast
12 7 (7.61%) SNMP
12 7 (7.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (18.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 12 (13.04%) Telecoms
2 10 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Law
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (58.70%) Network Engineer
2 26 (28.26%) Architect
3 21 (22.83%) Network Architect
4 11 (11.96%) Implementation Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Senior
5 10 (10.87%) Network Design Architect
6 9 (9.78%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Designer
8 5 (5.43%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Network Designer
8 5 (5.43%) Network Specialist
8 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.09%) CSS
2 1 (1.09%) HTML
2 1 (1.09%) Jest
2 1 (1.09%) LDAP
2 1 (1.09%) Middleware
2 1 (1.09%) React
2 1 (1.09%) REST
2 1 (1.09%) RESTful
2 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (44.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.43%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.09%) Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.09%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.09%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
3 1 (1.09%) MVS
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Solaris
3 1 (1.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.65%) Network Design
2 16 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (11.96%) High Availability
4 9 (9.78%) Analytics
5 8 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 8 (8.70%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (6.52%) Load Balancing
7 5 (5.43%) Change Management
7 5 (5.43%) ITIL
7 5 (5.43%) Migration
7 5 (5.43%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (4.35%) DevOps
8 4 (4.35%) Network Architecture
8 4 (4.35%) Patch Management
8 4 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (4.35%) Zero Trust
9 3 (3.26%) AI
9 3 (3.26%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (3.26%) Incident Management
9 3 (3.26%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) Python
2 2 (2.17%) Java
3 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.09%) SQL
3 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (35.87%) Security Cleared
2 31 (33.70%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (32.61%) SC Cleared
4 17 (18.48%) CCNP
5 9 (9.78%) CCIE
6 4 (4.35%) CCNA
7 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.17%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (2.17%) Degree
8 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.09%) CCSA
9 1 (1.09%) CCSP
9 1 (1.09%) CISSP
9 1 (1.09%) GSEC
9 1 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Firmware
1 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.26%) KVM
3 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.09%) NFS
4 1 (1.09%) SRDF
4 1 (1.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Ansible
2 12 (13.04%) FortiGate
3 7 (7.61%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (4.35%) Terraform
5 3 (3.26%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.17%) OpenView
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.09%) Puppet
7 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (45.65%) Fortinet
3 26 (28.26%) F5
4 21 (22.83%) SolarWinds
5 19 (20.65%) Palo Alto
6 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
7 11 (11.96%) Juniper
8 9 (9.78%) Meraki
9 8 (8.70%) CheckPoint
10 7 (7.61%) VMware
11 6 (6.52%) LogicMonitor
12 5 (5.43%) Arista
12 5 (5.43%) Aruba
13 3 (3.26%) AlgoSec
13 3 (3.26%) Infoblox
13 3 (3.26%) NetScout
14 2 (2.17%) EMC
14 2 (2.17%) NetApp
14 2 (2.17%) Qualys
14 2 (2.17%) Zscaler