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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 396 391
Rank change year-on-year -111 -5 +129
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 78 91 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 2.86% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 88
10th Percentile £301 £415 £300
25th Percentile £368 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £418
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +25.55% -11.96%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £525
90th Percentile £674 £653 £596
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -7.50% +15.61% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.74% - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year -27.74% - -

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 3,862 3,183 4,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 13.01% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 1,980 2,878
10th Percentile £250 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 118 389
10th Percentile £16.64 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -25.85% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.11 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +116.22%

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 May 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 18 May 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 -69 23 £580 +10.48% 5
South East -50 19 £450 -24.84% 3
South West -22 17 £495 -10.81% 3
West Midlands -51 10 £340 -36.74% 1
Midlands -59 10 £340 -36.74% 1
North of England -89 6 - - 1
Yorkshire -64 3 - - 1
East of England -28 2 £563 -6.25%
North West -48 2 - -
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 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.38%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) AWS
3 5 (6.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.85%) IaaS
4 3 (3.85%) PaaS
4 3 (3.85%) SaaS
4 3 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.28%) GCP
5 1 (1.28%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.28%) OCI
5 1 (1.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (58.97%) Firewall
2 35 (44.87%) BGP
2 35 (44.87%) WAN
3 31 (39.74%) OSPF
4 29 (37.18%) LAN
5 24 (30.77%) VPN
6 21 (26.92%) VXLAN
7 20 (25.64%) Wireless
8 19 (24.36%) VLAN
9 17 (21.79%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (20.51%) Network Security
11 14 (17.95%) NX-OS
12 13 (16.67%) BIG-IP
12 13 (16.67%) DNS
12 13 (16.67%) IPsec
13 12 (15.38%) SD-WAN
13 12 (15.38%) SSL
13 12 (15.38%) Wireshark
14 10 (12.82%) HTTPS
14 10 (12.82%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 19 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.26%) Retail
3 6 (7.69%) Finance
4 5 (6.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.13%) Legal
6 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Law
7 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Billing
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 9 (11.54%) Architect
3 7 (8.97%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (8.97%) Network Architect
4 6 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) NOC Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.85%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) IP Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Senior
6 3 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.56%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (2.56%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.82%) LDAP
1 10 (12.82%) SAML
2 5 (6.41%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.13%) VML
4 3 (3.85%) REST
5 2 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (47.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.13%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.56%) Celerra
6 2 (2.56%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.56%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.56%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.56%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.56%) PKI
6 2 (2.56%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.56%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.28%) iSeries
7 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.67%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (6.41%) CatOS
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.28%) VMS
5 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 12 (15.38%) ITIL
3 11 (14.10%) Change Management
3 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
3 11 (14.10%) Migration
3 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.26%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (8.97%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (8.97%) Data Protection
7 7 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.69%) Network Architecture
8 6 (7.69%) Network Design
8 6 (7.69%) Presales
8 6 (7.69%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.41%) Network Management
9 5 (6.41%) Service Design
9 5 (6.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (2.56%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (21.79%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (20.51%) CCNP
5 8 (10.26%) DV Cleared
6 6 (7.69%) CCIE
7 4 (5.13%) CCSE
7 4 (5.13%) CCSM
7 4 (5.13%) Degree
8 3 (3.85%) CCNA
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.56%) CCIP
9 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.56%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.56%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) NCSC
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 7 (8.97%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (2.56%) vCloud
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.28%) Firmware
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) Ansible
1 10 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (6.41%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.41%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Avamar
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.56%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (1.28%) CASB
6 1 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.28%) Grafana
6 1 (1.28%) Nessus
6 1 (1.28%) SCCM
6 1 (1.28%) SCOM
6 1 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 78 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (50.00%) F5
3 29 (37.18%) Palo Alto
4 27 (34.62%) VMware
5 23 (29.49%) CheckPoint
6 15 (19.23%) Fortinet
7 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 10 (12.82%) SolarWinds
9 9 (11.54%) Meraki
10 8 (10.26%) Aruba
11 7 (8.97%) Juniper
12 4 (5.13%) NetApp
13 3 (3.85%) Arista
13 3 (3.85%) Veeam
14 2 (2.56%) 3PAR
14 2 (2.56%) Brocade
14 2 (2.56%) HP
14 2 (2.56%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.56%) Isilon
14 2 (2.56%) Nokia