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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 382 411
Rank change year-on-year -164 +29 +61
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 85 122 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 3.55% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 78 71
10th Percentile £400 £400 £300
25th Percentile £450 £423 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £550
90th Percentile £713 £613 £614
UK median daily rate £495 £491 £493
% change year-on-year +0.87% -0.46% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £28.30 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.75 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £41.69 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £60.93 £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 4,249 3,433 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 12.43% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,574 2,133 2,592
10th Percentile £263 £235 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 162 291
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.91% -12.62% -0.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.79%

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 5 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Nexus in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in England

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 5 August 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 -95 25 £525 +10.53% 13
South East -57 19 £463 -9.31% 6
South West -45 17 £498 -13.48% 1
North of England -63 14 £500 +2.15% 7
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 +2.15% 6
North West -50 5 £563 +14.31% 1
West Midlands -60 5 £413 -21.43% 1
Midlands -62 5 £413 -21.43% 2
North East - 1 - -
East of England - 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 (2.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) Azure
2 17 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.35%) IBM Watson
6 2 (2.35%) OCI
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.18%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.18%) IaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 53 (62.35%) Firewall
2 44 (51.76%) BGP
3 40 (47.06%) OSPF
4 39 (45.88%) WAN
5 32 (37.65%) LAN
5 32 (37.65%) VLAN
6 27 (31.76%) VPN
7 24 (28.24%) VXLAN
8 21 (24.71%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (24.71%) SD-WAN
9 20 (23.53%) DNS
10 18 (21.18%) Network Security
10 18 (21.18%) Wireless
11 17 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 17 (20.00%) MPLS
12 16 (18.82%) IPsec
13 15 (17.65%) TCP/IP
14 14 (16.47%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (14.12%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (14.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.35%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.06%) Finance
4 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.88%) Legal
5 5 (5.88%) Police
5 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (62.35%) Network Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Network Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 10 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Lead
5 5 (5.88%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Lead Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) IP Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) Network Specialist
7 3 (3.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) 802.1X
2 5 (5.88%) REST
3 4 (4.71%) LDAP
3 4 (4.71%) SAML
4 2 (2.35%) Middleware
4 2 (2.35%) YAML
5 1 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.59%) PKI
3 7 (8.24%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.06%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.06%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.53%) Celerra
6 3 (3.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.53%) EMC Centera
6 3 (3.53%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (3.53%) EMC VNX
6 3 (3.53%) IBM XIV
6 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.53%) Symmetrix
6 3 (3.53%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Windows
2 9 (10.59%) Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.18%) CatOS
4 1 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.18%) Unix
4 1 (1.18%) VMS
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.35%) ITIL
2 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.47%) Mentoring
5 13 (15.29%) Load Balancing
5 13 (15.29%) Migration
5 13 (15.29%) Network Monitoring
6 12 (14.12%) Change Management
6 12 (14.12%) Roadmaps
7 11 (12.94%) Network Architecture
8 8 (9.41%) Network Design
8 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
8 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (9.41%) Zero Trust
9 7 (8.24%) Cloud Security
9 7 (8.24%) Commercial Awareness
9 7 (8.24%) Presales
9 7 (8.24%) Service Design
9 7 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.59%) Python
2 3 (3.53%) Bash
3 2 (2.35%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (37.65%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (32.94%) CCNP
3 26 (30.59%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 13 (15.29%) DV Cleared
6 8 (9.41%) Degree
7 7 (8.24%) CCIE
7 7 (8.24%) CCNA
8 5 (5.88%) CCSE
8 5 (5.88%) CCSM
9 4 (4.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.35%) CCIP
11 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.18%) CCDA
12 1 (1.18%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.18%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) NCSC
2 5 (5.88%) SLA
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (24.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.29%) VMware NSX
3 10 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (9.41%) Active Directory
5 6 (7.06%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.71%) vSphere
7 3 (3.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (3.53%) Firmware
7 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.18%) Docker
8 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Ansible
2 7 (8.24%) FortiGate
3 6 (7.06%) Terraform
4 5 (5.88%) Avamar
5 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.53%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.18%) CASB
8 1 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.18%) Grafana
8 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.18%) Puppet
8 1 (1.18%) SCCM
8 1 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (45.88%) F5
3 32 (37.65%) Palo Alto
4 31 (36.47%) VMware
5 18 (21.18%) CheckPoint
5 18 (21.18%) Fortinet
6 14 (16.47%) SolarWinds
7 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
8 10 (11.76%) Juniper
9 5 (5.88%) Arista
9 5 (5.88%) IBM
9 5 (5.88%) NetApp
10 4 (4.71%) Aruba
10 4 (4.71%) HP
10 4 (4.71%) Meraki
11 3 (3.53%) 3PAR
11 3 (3.53%) Brocade
11 3 (3.53%) EMC
11 3 (3.53%) NetScout
11 3 (3.53%) Veeam