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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 378 392
Rank change year-on-year -136 +14 +115
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 75 91 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.88% 2.92% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 55 93
10th Percentile £301 £425 £300
25th Percentile £381 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +21.39% -13.50%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £525
90th Percentile £673 £660 £550
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -7.50% +15.42% -8.80%
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 3,996 3,119 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.58% 13.03% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,471 1,956 2,897
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 121 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% +2.50% +118.16%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -99 21 £553 +6.25% 11
South East -50 20 £456 -21.67% 4
South West -26 18 £495 -10.81% 3
West Midlands -54 8 £320 -40.47%
Midlands -55 8 £320 -40.47%
North of England -88 5 - - 4
Yorkshire -64 3 - - 2
East of England -29 2 £563 -6.25%
North West -43 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 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 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.33%) Azure
2 11 (14.67%) AWS
3 6 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.00%) IaaS
4 3 (4.00%) PaaS
4 3 (4.00%) SaaS
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.33%) OCI
5 1 (1.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 42 (56.00%) Firewall
2 33 (44.00%) BGP
3 31 (41.33%) WAN
4 29 (38.67%) OSPF
5 26 (34.67%) LAN
6 22 (29.33%) VXLAN
7 20 (26.67%) VLAN
8 19 (25.33%) VPN
9 18 (24.00%) Wireless
10 16 (21.33%) Network Security
11 15 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (18.67%) NX-OS
13 13 (17.33%) SD-WAN
14 11 (14.67%) BIG-IP
14 11 (14.67%) DNS
14 11 (14.67%) IPsec
14 11 (14.67%) Wireshark
15 10 (13.33%) SSL
16 9 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (12.00%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
2 7 (9.33%) Retail
3 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.33%) Legal
5 3 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Police
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (65.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) Architect
3 7 (9.33%) Network Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) NOC Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) IP Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Senior
7 3 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Core Network Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) LDAP
1 8 (10.67%) SAML
2 5 (6.67%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) Middleware
4 2 (2.67%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (48.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) Celerra
6 2 (2.67%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.67%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.67%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.67%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.67%) PKI
6 2 (2.67%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.67%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Linux
3 3 (4.00%) CatOS
4 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.33%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.00%) ITIL
1 12 (16.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (14.67%) Change Management
2 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
3 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (12.00%) Migration
4 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.33%) Commercial Awareness
5 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (9.33%) Data Protection
5 7 (9.33%) Network Architecture
5 7 (9.33%) Presales
6 6 (8.00%) Network Design
6 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.00%) SIEM
6 6 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (6.67%) Network Management
7 5 (6.67%) Service Design
8 4 (5.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.00%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) ActionScript
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.67%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (20.00%) CCNP
5 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.67%) CCSE
6 5 (6.67%) CCSM
7 4 (5.33%) CCIE
7 4 (5.33%) CCNA
7 4 (5.33%) Degree
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.67%) CCIP
8 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.67%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.33%) CCDA
9 1 (1.33%) CCDP
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.67%) NIST
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (14.67%) VMware NSX
4 9 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (2.67%) vCloud
7 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.67%) vSphere
8 1 (1.33%) Firmware
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Ansible
2 8 (10.67%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.33%) Avamar
4 4 (5.33%) Terraform
5 3 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.67%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (1.33%) CASB
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.33%) Grafana
7 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.33%) Nessus
7 1 (1.33%) SCCM
7 1 (1.33%) SCOM
7 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 35 (46.67%) F5
3 27 (36.00%) Palo Alto
3 27 (36.00%) VMware
4 20 (26.67%) CheckPoint
5 16 (21.33%) Fortinet
6 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 10 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 7 (9.33%) Juniper
8 6 (8.00%) Aruba
8 6 (8.00%) Meraki
9 4 (5.33%) NetApp
10 3 (4.00%) Arista
10 3 (4.00%) Veeam
11 2 (2.67%) 3PAR
11 2 (2.67%) Dell
11 2 (2.67%) HP
11 2 (2.67%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.67%) Isilon
11 2 (2.67%) Nokia