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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 382 404
Rank change year-on-year -138 +22 +95
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 77 94 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 2.93% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 55 88
10th Percentile £303 £400 £300
25th Percentile £403 £454 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £506 £433
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +16.81% -8.80%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £525
90th Percentile £671 £660 £561
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £28.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £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 4,062 3,211 4,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.94% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 2,000 2,884
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 132 393
10th Percentile £16.18 £14.69 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.64% +10.00% +110.53%

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 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 18 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 -74 21 £525 +0.96% 10
South East -40 20 £456 -1.35% 10
South West -23 17 £498 -13.48% 2
North of England -83 8 £626 +27.29% 5
West Midlands -51 7 £340 -12.82%
Midlands -57 7 £340 -12.82% 1
North West -40 4 £626 +15.44% 3
Yorkshire -70 3 - - 1
East of England -26 2 £563 -6.25%
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 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.58%) Azure
2 10 (12.99%) AWS
3 6 (7.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.90%) IaaS
4 3 (3.90%) PaaS
4 3 (3.90%) SaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.30%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) OCI
6 1 (1.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (55.84%) Firewall
2 34 (44.16%) WAN
3 33 (42.86%) BGP
4 29 (37.66%) LAN
5 27 (35.06%) OSPF
6 23 (29.87%) VXLAN
7 22 (28.57%) VLAN
8 18 (23.38%) VPN
8 18 (23.38%) Wireless
9 16 (20.78%) SD-WAN
10 15 (19.48%) Network Security
11 14 (18.18%) NX-OS
12 13 (16.88%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (15.58%) DNS
13 12 (15.58%) MPLS
13 12 (15.58%) Wireshark
14 11 (14.29%) SSL
15 10 (12.99%) BIG-IP
15 10 (12.99%) IPsec
16 9 (11.69%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Finance
2 7 (9.09%) Legal
3 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Retail
5 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Billing
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (66.23%) Network Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Architect
3 7 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) IP Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Core Network Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) LDAP
1 7 (9.09%) SAML
2 6 (7.79%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.19%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (46.75%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.79%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.19%) PKI
4 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Celerra
6 2 (2.60%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.60%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.60%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.60%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.60%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.60%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.30%) iSeries
7 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.18%) Windows
2 7 (9.09%) Linux
3 3 (3.90%) CatOS
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.78%) ITIL
2 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (16.88%) Mentoring
3 12 (15.58%) Change Management
4 11 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 11 (14.29%) Migration
4 11 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
7 7 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 7 (9.09%) Network Architecture
7 7 (9.09%) Network Design
7 7 (9.09%) Network Management
7 7 (9.09%) Presales
8 6 (7.79%) SIEM
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (6.49%) Analytics
9 5 (6.49%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.79%) Python
2 2 (2.60%) ActionScript
2 2 (2.60%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.97%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
4 17 (22.08%) CCNP
5 10 (12.99%) DV Cleared
6 7 (9.09%) CCNA
7 5 (6.49%) CCSE
7 5 (6.49%) CCSM
7 5 (6.49%) Degree
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.60%) CCIE
8 2 (2.60%) CCIP
8 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.60%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.60%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.30%) CCDA
9 1 (1.30%) CCDP
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) NIST
2 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (29.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.58%) VMware NSX
3 11 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 10 (12.99%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (7.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.90%) Firmware
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (3.90%) vSphere
7 2 (2.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (2.60%) vCloud
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Ansible
2 7 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (7.79%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.19%) Avamar
4 4 (5.19%) Terraform
5 3 (3.90%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.60%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.30%) CASB
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.30%) Grafana
7 1 (1.30%) Nessus
7 1 (1.30%) SCCM
7 1 (1.30%) SCOM
7 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 34 (44.16%) F5
3 29 (37.66%) VMware
4 27 (35.06%) Palo Alto
5 19 (24.68%) Fortinet
6 16 (20.78%) CheckPoint
7 10 (12.99%) SolarWinds
8 9 (11.69%) Juniper
8 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
9 5 (6.49%) Aruba
10 4 (5.19%) HP
10 4 (5.19%) Meraki
10 4 (5.19%) NetApp
11 3 (3.90%) Arista
11 3 (3.90%) Veeam
12 2 (2.60%) 3PAR
12 2 (2.60%) Dell
12 2 (2.60%) EMC
12 2 (2.60%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.60%) Isilon