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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 405 391
Rank change year-on-year -109 -14 +179
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 46 83 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.34% 2.41% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 89
10th Percentile £300 £371 £313
25th Percentile £319 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £434
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +21.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £525 £596 £525
90th Percentile £568 £675 £603
UK median daily rate £425 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -18.27% +15.56% -12.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £63.74
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.44
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 3,429 3,446 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.95% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,230 1,979 3,207
10th Percentile £204 £220 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 106 366
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £16.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £22.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +140.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.89
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +149.47%

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 January 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 29 January 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 -40 20 £500 -4.76% 5
North of England -71 8 £335 -33.00% 1
South East -45 7 £323 -38.57% 3
West Midlands -30 5 £308 -38.50% 1
North West -35 5 £335 -39.09% 1
Midlands -51 5 £308 -38.50% 1
South West -14 3 £400 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -51 3 - -
East of England -12 2 - - 2
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 (2.17%) CICS
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (19.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
3 3 (6.52%) IaaS
3 3 (6.52%) PaaS
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 2 (4.35%) OCI
5 1 (2.17%) Akamai
5 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (73.91%) Firewall
2 31 (67.39%) WAN
3 24 (52.17%) LAN
4 19 (41.30%) VPN
5 18 (39.13%) BGP
6 14 (30.43%) OSPF
7 13 (28.26%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (26.09%) Wireless
9 11 (23.91%) Network Security
9 11 (23.91%) SD-WAN
10 9 (19.57%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (17.39%) DNS
11 8 (17.39%) Wireshark
12 7 (15.22%) BIG-IP
12 7 (15.22%) IPsec
12 7 (15.22%) MPLS
12 7 (15.22%) VXLAN
13 6 (13.04%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (13.04%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Retail
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Law
3 3 (6.52%) Legal
3 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 40 (86.96%) Network Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Data Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Core Network Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Junior
8 1 (2.17%) Network Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Network Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) LDAP
2 6 (13.04%) SAML
3 4 (8.70%) 802.1X
3 4 (8.70%) VML
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) iSeries
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) CatOS
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) MVS
3 1 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (15.22%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (13.04%) High Availability
3 6 (13.04%) Migration
3 6 (13.04%) Network Design
4 5 (10.87%) Change Management
4 5 (10.87%) Configuration Management
4 5 (10.87%) Network Architecture
5 4 (8.70%) ITIL
5 4 (8.70%) Load Balancing
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (6.52%) AI
6 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.52%) Network Management
6 3 (6.52%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (6.52%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (6.52%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (32.61%) CCNP
3 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
4 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (19.57%) CCIE
6 4 (8.70%) CCNA
6 4 (8.70%) Degree
7 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
8 2 (4.35%) JNCIA
8 2 (4.35%) JNCIS
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.17%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (2.17%) CCSA
9 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (21.74%) VMware NSX
3 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.52%) KVM
5 2 (4.35%) vCloud
6 1 (2.17%) Firmware
6 1 (2.17%) NFS
6 1 (2.17%) SRDF
6 1 (2.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Ansible
2 6 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 4 (8.70%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (45.65%) Palo Alto
3 16 (34.78%) F5
4 13 (28.26%) CheckPoint
5 12 (26.09%) Meraki
5 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 12 (26.09%) VMware
6 10 (21.74%) SolarWinds
7 8 (17.39%) Aruba
8 7 (15.22%) Fortinet
9 4 (8.70%) Arista
10 3 (6.52%) Juniper
11 2 (4.35%) EMC
11 2 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (2.17%) Google
12 1 (2.17%) IBM
12 1 (2.17%) NetApp
12 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA
12 1 (2.17%) Oracle
12 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage