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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 411 391
Rank change year-on-year -81 -20 +166
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 48 83 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 2.41% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 87
10th Percentile £300 £371 £314
25th Percentile £335 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £589 £544
90th Percentile £556 £675 £606
UK median daily rate £425 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -18.27% +9.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
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 3,326 3,449 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.45% 12.80% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,155 2,011 3,140
10th Percentile £204 £220 £208
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 103 318
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.90 £20.52 £24.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.11% -40.25% +135.38%

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 16 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 16 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 -21 24 £475 -9.52% 6
South East -38 8 £340 -35.24% 13
West Midlands -33 5 £308 -38.50% 2
Midlands -40 5 £308 -38.50% 2
North of England -59 5 £335 -25.56% 5
North West -27 4 £335 -36.19% 3
South West -13 3 £400 -20.00% 1
East of England -17 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -53 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 (2.08%) CICS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) GCP
3 3 (6.25%) IaaS
3 3 (6.25%) PaaS
3 3 (6.25%) SaaS
4 2 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (2.08%) Akamai
5 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (77.08%) Firewall
2 31 (64.58%) WAN
3 27 (56.25%) LAN
4 21 (43.75%) VPN
5 18 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (35.42%) BGP
7 14 (29.17%) OSPF
7 14 (29.17%) SD-WAN
8 12 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (25.00%) Wireless
9 9 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (16.67%) Network Security
10 8 (16.67%) Wireshark
11 7 (14.58%) BIG-IP
11 7 (14.58%) DNS
11 7 (14.58%) IPsec
11 7 (14.58%) MPLS
12 6 (12.50%) HTTP
12 6 (12.50%) HTTPS
12 6 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Retail
4 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Law
4 3 (6.25%) Legal
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Network Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Network Design Architect
7 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Network Specialist
9 1 (2.08%) Security Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Architect
9 1 (2.08%) Switch Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) LDAP
2 6 (12.50%) SAML
3 4 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 4 (8.33%) VML
4 1 (2.08%) Middleware
4 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.08%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) iSeries
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) CatOS
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) MVS
2 1 (2.08%) Solaris
2 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Network Design
2 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (14.58%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 6 (12.50%) High Availability
4 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 5 (10.42%) Change Management
6 4 (8.33%) ITIL
6 4 (8.33%) Migration
6 4 (8.33%) Network Management
7 3 (6.25%) AI
7 3 (6.25%) Change Control
7 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.25%) Network Architecture
7 3 (6.25%) Problem Management
7 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (6.25%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) Java
2 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) CCNP
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) CCIE
4 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.08%) CCSA
6 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (20.83%) VMware NSX
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) KVM
5 2 (4.17%) vCloud
6 1 (2.08%) Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) NFS
6 1 (2.08%) SRDF
6 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (47.92%) Palo Alto
3 17 (35.42%) F5
4 13 (27.08%) CheckPoint
5 12 (25.00%) Meraki
5 12 (25.00%) VMware
6 10 (20.83%) Fortinet
6 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (20.83%) SolarWinds
7 8 (16.67%) Aruba
8 4 (8.33%) Juniper
9 2 (4.17%) Arista
9 2 (4.17%) EMC
9 2 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.08%) IBM
10 1 (2.08%) McAfee
10 1 (2.08%) NetApp
10 1 (2.08%) NVIDIA
10 1 (2.08%) Oracle
10 1 (2.08%) Pure Storage