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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 411 413
Rank change year-on-year -56 +2 +163
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 77 98 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.24% 2.62% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 55 90
10th Percentile £343 £408 £324
25th Percentile £402 £463 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £511 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
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 3,445 3,742 5,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 12.20% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,214 2,179 3,550
10th Percentile £213 £235 £212
25th Percentile £361 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 131 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.54
25th Percentile £20.63 £26.25 £23.32
Median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.18
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +31.74%

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 18 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 18 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 +25 55 £450 -14.29% 10
North of England -41 8 £470 -14.59% 5
South East -19 6 £510 +2.00% 5
Yorkshire -35 5 £490 +78.00%
Midlands -35 4 £255 -49.00% 1
North West -27 3 £335 -39.09% 4
West Midlands -31 3 £255 -49.00% 1
South West -3 2 £500 +11.11% 2
East of England -22 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 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 (1.30%) CICS
1 1 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) Azure
2 8 (10.39%) Akamai
3 5 (6.49%) AWS
4 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) OCI
6 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) npm
6 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (83.12%) Firewall
2 41 (53.25%) LAN
3 39 (50.65%) SD-WAN
4 36 (46.75%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (41.56%) WAN
6 14 (18.18%) BGP
6 14 (18.18%) OSPF
7 12 (15.58%) VPN
8 11 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
8 11 (14.29%) Network Security
9 9 (11.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 9 (11.69%) Wireless
10 8 (10.39%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (9.09%) SNMP
11 7 (9.09%) Wireshark
12 5 (6.49%) DNS
12 5 (6.49%) MPLS
13 4 (5.19%) Ethernet
13 4 (5.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.60%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 12 (15.58%) Telecoms
2 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 25 (32.47%) Architect
3 20 (25.97%) Network Architect
4 10 (12.99%) Network Design Architect
4 10 (12.99%) Senior
5 8 (10.39%) Cisco Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Designer
7 5 (6.49%) Juniper Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Network Designer
7 5 (6.49%) Network Specialist
8 4 (5.19%) Implementation Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Cisco Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Network Design Specialist
9 3 (3.90%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.30%) CSS
2 1 (1.30%) HTML
2 1 (1.30%) Jest
2 1 (1.30%) LDAP
2 1 (1.30%) Middleware
2 1 (1.30%) React
2 1 (1.30%) REST
2 1 (1.30%) RESTful
2 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (38.96%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.30%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) MVS
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Solaris
3 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.38%) Network Design
2 10 (12.99%) High Availability
2 10 (12.99%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (10.39%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (7.79%) Load Balancing
4 6 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (6.49%) Data Protection
5 5 (6.49%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (5.19%) Analytics
6 4 (5.19%) Change Management
6 4 (5.19%) DevOps
6 4 (5.19%) Migration
6 4 (5.19%) Network Architecture
6 4 (5.19%) Zero Trust
7 3 (3.90%) AI
7 3 (3.90%) B2B
7 3 (3.90%) Configuration Management
7 3 (3.90%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (3.90%) Low Latency
7 3 (3.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (2.60%) Java
3 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.30%) SQL
3 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (33.77%) SC Cleared
3 21 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (18.18%) CCNP
5 6 (7.79%) CCIE
6 4 (5.19%) CCNA
7 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.60%) Degree
9 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.30%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.30%) CCSA
9 1 (1.30%) CCSP
9 1 (1.30%) CISSP
9 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.30%) GSEC
9 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.90%) KVM
3 2 (2.60%) Firmware
3 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.30%) NFS
4 1 (1.30%) SRDF
4 1 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Ansible
1 12 (15.58%) FortiGate
2 4 (5.19%) Cisco Prime
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) OpenView
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) Puppet
5 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (50.65%) Fortinet
3 23 (29.87%) F5
4 19 (24.68%) Palo Alto
5 18 (23.38%) SolarWinds
6 13 (16.88%) Juniper
7 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.09%) Meraki
8 7 (9.09%) VMware
9 6 (7.79%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (5.19%) Aruba
10 4 (5.19%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.90%) Arista
11 3 (3.90%) NetScout
12 2 (2.60%) EMC
12 2 (2.60%) NetApp
12 2 (2.60%) Qualys
13 1 (1.30%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.30%) Riverbed
13 1 (1.30%) Splunk