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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 389 392
Rank change year-on-year -127 +3 +132
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 79 91 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% 2.86% 3.03%
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 3,875 3,181 4,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 13.00% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 1,978 2,876
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% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 118 389
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.24 £29.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.04% -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 17 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 17 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 -74 23 £580 +10.48% 4
South East -49 19 £450 -24.84% 3
South West -31 17 £495 -10.81% 4
West Midlands -55 10 £340 -36.74% 1
Midlands -63 10 £340 -36.74% 1
North of England -80 7 - - 1
North West -46 3 - -
Yorkshire -63 3 - - 1
East of England -26 2 £563 -6.25%
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 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (13.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.19%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
3 5 (6.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.80%) IaaS
4 3 (3.80%) PaaS
4 3 (3.80%) SaaS
4 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (1.27%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.27%) OCI
5 1 (1.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 47 (59.49%) Firewall
2 36 (45.57%) WAN
3 35 (44.30%) BGP
4 31 (39.24%) OSPF
5 30 (37.97%) LAN
6 24 (30.38%) VPN
7 21 (26.58%) VXLAN
8 20 (25.32%) Wireless
9 19 (24.05%) VLAN
10 18 (22.78%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (21.52%) Network Security
12 14 (17.72%) NX-OS
13 13 (16.46%) BIG-IP
13 13 (16.46%) DNS
13 13 (16.46%) IPsec
13 13 (16.46%) SD-WAN
14 12 (15.19%) SSL
14 12 (15.19%) Wireshark
15 11 (13.92%) MPLS
16 10 (12.66%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.13%) Retail
3 6 (7.59%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.06%) Legal
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Billing
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (65.82%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Architect
3 8 (10.13%) Network Architect
4 7 (8.86%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) NOC Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.80%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) IP Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Core Network Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) LDAP
1 10 (12.66%) SAML
2 5 (6.33%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.06%) VML
4 3 (3.80%) REST
5 2 (2.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.84%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.59%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Celerra
6 2 (2.53%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.53%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.53%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.53%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.53%) PKI
6 2 (2.53%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.53%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.46%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Linux
3 5 (6.33%) CatOS
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.27%) VMS
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.46%) Load Balancing
2 12 (15.19%) Change Management
2 12 (15.19%) ITIL
2 12 (15.19%) Migration
3 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
3 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.13%) Network Monitoring
6 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.86%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (8.86%) Data Protection
7 7 (8.86%) Network Design
8 6 (7.59%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.59%) Network Architecture
8 6 (7.59%) Presales
8 6 (7.59%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.33%) High Availability
9 5 (6.33%) Service Design
9 5 (6.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.59%) Python
2 2 (2.53%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 24 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (22.78%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (21.52%) CCNP
5 8 (10.13%) DV Cleared
6 7 (8.86%) CCIE
7 4 (5.06%) CCSE
7 4 (5.06%) CCSM
7 4 (5.06%) Degree
8 3 (3.80%) CCNA
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.53%) CCIP
9 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.53%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.53%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.27%) CCDA
10 1 (1.27%) CCDP
10 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) SLA
2 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (17.72%) Active Directory
3 13 (16.46%) VMware NSX
4 7 (8.86%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.80%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (2.53%) vCloud
7 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.27%) Firmware
8 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Ansible
1 10 (12.66%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (6.33%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.06%) Avamar
4 3 (3.80%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.53%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (1.27%) CASB
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.27%) Grafana
6 1 (1.27%) Nessus
6 1 (1.27%) SCCM
6 1 (1.27%) SCOM
6 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (49.37%) F5
3 30 (37.97%) Palo Alto
4 27 (34.18%) VMware
5 23 (29.11%) CheckPoint
6 15 (18.99%) Fortinet
7 14 (17.72%) Microsoft
8 10 (12.66%) Meraki
8 10 (12.66%) SolarWinds
9 8 (10.13%) Aruba
10 7 (8.86%) Juniper
11 4 (5.06%) NetApp
12 3 (3.80%) Arista
12 3 (3.80%) Veeam
13 2 (2.53%) 3PAR
13 2 (2.53%) Dell
13 2 (2.53%) HP
13 2 (2.53%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.53%) Isilon
13 2 (2.53%) Nokia