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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 409 401
Rank change year-on-year -117 -8 +118
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 57 75 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.31% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 2.34% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 48 85
10th Percentile £300 £396 £284
25th Percentile £335 £455 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +31.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £544 £611 £488
90th Percentile £675 £679 £550
UK median daily rate £456 £500 £418
% change year-on-year -8.75% +19.57% -18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.61%

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 3,810 3,202 5,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.74% 13.15% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 2,011 3,148
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £485
% change year-on-year +2.04% +1.14% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 123 396
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.77 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -6.25% +110.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £69.32
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.88% -6.25% +110.53%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -81 23 £540 +2.86% 4
South East -49 13 £463 -22.76% 4
South West -36 7 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -57 7 £308 +66.22% 1
Midlands -61 7 £308 +66.22% 1
North of England -76 5 - - 9
North West -37 3 - - 6
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 2
East of England -30 1 £563 -6.25% 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:

Applications
1 10 (17.54%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) IaaS
3 4 (7.02%) PaaS
3 4 (7.02%) SaaS
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) OCI
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 41 (71.93%) Firewall
2 31 (54.39%) WAN
3 25 (43.86%) BGP
4 24 (42.11%) LAN
5 23 (40.35%) VPN
6 21 (36.84%) OSPF
7 15 (26.32%) Network Security
7 15 (26.32%) Wireless
8 14 (24.56%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (19.30%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (19.30%) IPsec
9 11 (19.30%) SD-WAN
9 11 (19.30%) VXLAN
10 10 (17.54%) BIG-IP
10 10 (17.54%) DNS
10 10 (17.54%) SSL
10 10 (17.54%) Wireshark
11 9 (15.79%) MPLS
11 9 (15.79%) NX-OS
12 8 (14.04%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Retail
3 5 (8.77%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Legal
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Law
5 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Billing
7 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (77.19%) Network Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Architect
4 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Network Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Security Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) IP Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) IP Network Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Design Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) NOC Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) LDAP
1 7 (12.28%) SAML
2 4 (7.02%) 802.1X
2 4 (7.02%) VML
3 3 (5.26%) REST
4 2 (3.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.02%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Celerra
5 2 (3.51%) EMC Centera
5 2 (3.51%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (3.51%) EMC VNX
5 2 (3.51%) IBM XIV
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Symmetrix
5 2 (3.51%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.75%) iSeries
6 1 (1.75%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) CatOS
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.75%) VMS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.54%) Change Management
1 10 (17.54%) Migration
2 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (14.04%) ITIL
2 8 (14.04%) Load Balancing
2 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.28%) Network Design
4 6 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 6 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (8.77%) Data Protection
5 5 (8.77%) High Availability
5 5 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (7.02%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (7.02%) Network Architecture
6 4 (7.02%) Network Management
6 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
6 4 (7.02%) Runbook
6 4 (7.02%) Task Automation
7 3 (5.26%) SIEM
7 3 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (28.07%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (26.32%) CCNP
5 7 (12.28%) CCIE
5 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.02%) Degree
7 3 (5.26%) CCNA
8 2 (3.51%) CCIP
8 2 (3.51%) CCSE
8 2 (3.51%) CCSM
8 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.51%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.51%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.75%) CCDA
9 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) NCSC
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
2 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (29.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.54%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (3.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (3.51%) Firmware
5 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.51%) vCloud
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (8.77%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (3.51%) Avamar
5 2 (3.51%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.75%) CASB
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Nessus
6 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (45.61%) Palo Alto
3 24 (42.11%) F5
4 18 (31.58%) CheckPoint
4 18 (31.58%) VMware
5 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
6 11 (19.30%) Fortinet
6 11 (19.30%) Meraki
7 9 (15.79%) SolarWinds
8 8 (14.04%) Aruba
9 7 (12.28%) Juniper
10 3 (5.26%) Arista
10 3 (5.26%) NetApp
10 3 (5.26%) Veeam
11 2 (3.51%) 3PAR
11 2 (3.51%) Dell
11 2 (3.51%) EMC
11 2 (3.51%) HP
11 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.51%) Isilon