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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 420 426
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 +140
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 77 96 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.26% 2.53% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 52 83
10th Percentile £342 £376 £317
25th Percentile £400 £463 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £550
90th Percentile £575 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%
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 3,406 3,797 5,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.09% 12.26% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,199 2,193 3,434
10th Percentile £206 £232 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £609
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 133 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.71 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.42 £23.10 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -17.07% -27.30% +35.09%

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 29 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 29 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 +39 57 £450 -14.29% 3
North of England -49 9 £470 +17.44% 2
South East -17 5 £520 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire -26 5 £490 +78.00%
North West -34 4 £335 -39.09% 2
West Midlands -27 3 £255 -49.00% 1
Midlands -35 3 £255 -49.00% 1
East of England -20 2 - - 2
South West +7 1 £500 - 5
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 8 (10.39%) Akamai
2 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) 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%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (84.42%) Firewall
2 42 (54.55%) LAN
3 39 (50.65%) SD-WAN
4 38 (49.35%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (44.16%) WAN
6 16 (20.78%) BGP
7 15 (19.48%) OSPF
7 15 (19.48%) VPN
8 11 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (12.99%) Network Security
10 9 (11.69%) Wireless
11 8 (10.39%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (10.39%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (10.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 8 (10.39%) SNMP
12 7 (9.09%) Wireshark
13 6 (7.79%) MPLS
14 5 (6.49%) Internet
15 4 (5.19%) DNS
15 4 (5.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 12 (15.58%) Telecoms
2 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Finance
5 4 (5.19%) Law
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
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
5 9 (11.69%) Senior
6 8 (10.39%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Designer
8 5 (6.49%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Network Designer
8 5 (6.49%) Network Specialist
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Network Design Specialist
10 3 (3.90%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.60%) VML
3 1 (1.30%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (41.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.30%) Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.30%) FlexPod
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Replication
4 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
3 9 (11.69%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (10.39%) Load Balancing
4 8 (10.39%) Network Segmentation
5 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (7.79%) Configuration Management
6 6 (7.79%) Migration
7 5 (6.49%) Change Management
7 5 (6.49%) Data Protection
8 4 (5.19%) Analytics
8 4 (5.19%) Network Architecture
8 4 (5.19%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (5.19%) Zero Trust
9 3 (3.90%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (3.90%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (3.90%) Decision-Making
9 3 (3.90%) DevOps
9 3 (3.90%) Low Latency
9 3 (3.90%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (1.30%) Java
2 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.06%) SC Cleared
3 23 (29.87%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (20.78%) CCNP
5 8 (10.39%) CCIE
6 4 (5.19%) CCNA
7 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.30%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.30%) CCSA
8 1 (1.30%) CCSP
8 1 (1.30%) CISSP
8 1 (1.30%) Degree
8 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) GSEC
8 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%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.30%) Firmware
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
2 11 (14.29%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.19%) Cisco Prime
3 4 (5.19%) Terraform
4 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.60%) OpenView
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (49.35%) Fortinet
3 24 (31.17%) F5
4 20 (25.97%) Palo Alto
5 18 (23.38%) SolarWinds
6 13 (16.88%) Juniper
7 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
8 9 (11.69%) Meraki
9 6 (7.79%) Aruba
9 6 (7.79%) CheckPoint
9 6 (7.79%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (7.79%) VMware
10 3 (3.90%) Arista
10 3 (3.90%) NetScout
11 2 (2.60%) EMC
11 2 (2.60%) NetApp
11 2 (2.60%) Qualys
12 1 (1.30%) Commvault
12 1 (1.30%) IBM
12 1 (1.30%) Oracle