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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 423 415
Rank change year-on-year -119 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 96 98 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 2.99% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 68 67
10th Percentile £375 £347 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £550
90th Percentile £688 £558 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £28.40 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £56.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £66.65 £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year -22.58% - -

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 4,331 3,275 3,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.79% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,052 2,319
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.55% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £612
90th Percentile £677 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 166 213
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.06 £14.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.81 £23.10
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -29.38% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.63 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -15.84% -10.60%

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 20 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Nexus in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in England

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 20 September 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 -115 28 £500 +11.11% 37
North of England -59 20 £500 +1.88% 7
South West -21 18 £525 -1.87% 2
South East -51 16 £463 -9.31% 8
Yorkshire -41 14 £500 +1.63% 5
North West -45 5 £563 +25.11% 2
West Midlands -50 5 £450 -14.29% 6
Midlands -54 5 £450 -14.29% 6
East of England -28 1 - - 4
North East - 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 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.88%) Azure
2 13 (13.54%) AWS
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.08%) GCP
6 2 (2.08%) IBM Watson
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.04%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.04%) OCI
7 1 (1.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (60.42%) Firewall
2 48 (50.00%) BGP
3 44 (45.83%) WAN
4 41 (42.71%) OSPF
5 40 (41.67%) LAN
6 36 (37.50%) VLAN
7 29 (30.21%) VPN
8 27 (28.13%) Wireless
9 25 (26.04%) Cisco ASA
9 25 (26.04%) DNS
10 22 (22.92%) Network Security
11 21 (21.88%) VXLAN
11 21 (21.88%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (20.83%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (18.75%) SD-WAN
13 18 (18.75%) TCP/IP
14 16 (16.67%) MPLS
15 14 (14.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 14 (14.58%) IPsec
16 13 (13.54%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.25%) Legal
4 6 (6.25%) Police
4 6 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.21%) Finance
5 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 2 (2.08%) Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (60.42%) Network Engineer
2 19 (19.79%) Senior
3 15 (15.63%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Network Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Lead
7 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Lead Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Network Specialist
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Deployment Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Designer
9 3 (3.13%) Network Designer
9 3 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) NOC Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) 802.1X
2 6 (6.25%) Terraform
3 5 (5.21%) REST
3 5 (5.21%) YAML
4 3 (3.13%) JSON
4 3 (3.13%) LDAP
4 3 (3.13%) SAML
5 2 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (44.79%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.54%) PKI
3 9 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.29%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.29%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.13%) Celerra
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.13%) EMC Centera
6 3 (3.13%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (3.13%) EMC VNX
6 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.13%) IBM XIV
6 3 (3.13%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.13%) Symmetrix
6 3 (3.13%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.04%) CatOS
5 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.71%) ITIL
3 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (13.54%) Migration
6 12 (12.50%) Network Architecture
6 12 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
7 11 (11.46%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.42%) Load Balancing
9 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.38%) High Availability
9 9 (9.38%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 8 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.29%) Change Management
11 7 (7.29%) Network Management
11 7 (7.29%) Service Design
11 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (30.21%) Security Cleared
3 28 (29.17%) CCNP
4 17 (17.71%) SC Cleared
5 14 (14.58%) DV Cleared
6 8 (8.33%) Degree
7 7 (7.29%) CCIE
8 6 (6.25%) CCNA
9 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.13%) CCSE
10 3 (3.13%) CCSM
10 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.04%) CCNA CyberOps
12 1 (1.04%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.04%) JNCIS
12 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) NCSC
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.17%) vSphere
6 3 (3.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (3.13%) Firmware
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.04%) Docker
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) FortiGate
2 7 (7.29%) Ansible
3 5 (5.21%) Avamar
4 3 (3.13%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) SCCM
5 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (39.58%) F5
3 29 (30.21%) VMware
4 27 (28.13%) Palo Alto
5 19 (19.79%) CheckPoint
6 14 (14.58%) Fortinet
7 13 (13.54%) SolarWinds
8 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 10 (10.42%) Meraki
10 7 (7.29%) Juniper
10 7 (7.29%) NetApp
11 6 (6.25%) Arista
12 5 (5.21%) IBM
13 4 (4.17%) Aruba
13 4 (4.17%) Isilon
13 4 (4.17%) Riverbed
14 3 (3.13%) 3PAR
14 3 (3.13%) HP
14 3 (3.13%) Infoblox
14 3 (3.13%) Veeam