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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 397 393
Rank change year-on-year -116 -4 +154
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 48 87 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 2.56% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 83
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £324 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +21.39% -17.62%
75th Percentile £525 £630 £500
90th Percentile £583 £685 £593
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £433
% change year-on-year -19.05% +21.19% -14.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £63.74
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.44
UK median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +5.37%

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 3,500 3,393 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.30% 13.01% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,278 1,984 3,169
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £353 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £679 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 101 382
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.59 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% -26.32% +138.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +143.59%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -53 20 £500 -4.76% 7
South East -37 9 £340 -39.82% 5
North of England -77 7 £335 -36.19% 2
North West -38 5 £335 -39.09% 2
West Midlands -45 5 £308 -38.50% 1
Midlands -48 5 £308 -38.50% 1
East of England -23 3 £563 +104.55% 1
South West -24 3 £400 -30.43% 3
Yorkshire -59 2 - -
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:

Applications
1 9 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) IaaS
2 4 (8.33%) PaaS
2 4 (8.33%) SaaS
3 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (2.08%) Akamai
5 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (72.92%) Firewall
2 31 (64.58%) WAN
3 24 (50.00%) LAN
4 21 (43.75%) VPN
5 20 (41.67%) BGP
6 16 (33.33%) OSPF
7 14 (29.17%) Wireless
8 13 (27.08%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (25.00%) SD-WAN
10 11 (22.92%) Network Security
11 9 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (18.75%) IPsec
11 9 (18.75%) Wireshark
12 8 (16.67%) DNS
12 8 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (16.67%) MPLS
12 8 (16.67%) VXLAN
13 7 (14.58%) NX-OS
13 7 (14.58%) SSL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Retail
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Law
3 3 (6.25%) Legal
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (85.42%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Network Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Core Network Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) IP Network Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Junior
7 1 (2.08%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.08%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Security Manager
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) LDAP
1 6 (12.50%) SAML
2 5 (10.42%) 802.1X
3 4 (8.33%) VML
4 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (45.83%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) iSeries
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) CatOS
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (14.58%) Migration
2 7 (14.58%) Network Design
2 7 (14.58%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) Change Management
4 5 (10.42%) Configuration Management
4 5 (10.42%) High Availability
4 5 (10.42%) Load Balancing
4 5 (10.42%) Network Management
5 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (8.33%) ITIL
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (6.25%) AI
6 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.25%) Project Management
6 3 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (6.25%) Runbook
6 3 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (35.42%) CCNP
3 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
5 10 (20.83%) CCIE
6 5 (10.42%) CCNA
6 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
7 4 (8.33%) Degree
8 2 (4.17%) CCIP
8 2 (4.17%) JNCIA
8 2 (4.17%) JNCIS
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.08%) CCDA
9 1 (2.08%) CCDP
9 1 (2.08%) CCSA
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (20.83%) VMware NSX
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.17%) KVM
5 2 (4.17%) vCloud
6 1 (2.08%) Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.08%) CASB
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (45.83%) Palo Alto
3 15 (31.25%) CheckPoint
4 14 (29.17%) F5
5 13 (27.08%) Meraki
5 13 (27.08%) VMware
6 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (22.92%) SolarWinds
8 9 (18.75%) Aruba
8 9 (18.75%) Fortinet
9 5 (10.42%) Arista
9 5 (10.42%) Juniper
10 2 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (2.08%) Dell
11 1 (2.08%) Forcepoint
11 1 (2.08%) HP
11 1 (2.08%) McAfee
11 1 (2.08%) NVIDIA
11 1 (2.08%) Sophos
11 1 (2.08%) Zscaler