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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 388 412
Rank change year-on-year -139 +24 +86
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 87 106 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.08% 3.20% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 68 87
10th Percentile £308 £400 £300
25th Percentile £421 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £434
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +15.29% -6.23%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £525
90th Percentile £719 £620 £584
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.20% +11.11% -
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 4,174 3,312 4,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.69% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,572 2,046 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 143 391
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.75 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% -12.82% +121.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +114.29%

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 July 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 July 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
South East -41 24 £463 -7.50% 9
London -97 23 £580 +16.00% 11
South West -25 17 £498 -13.48% 2
North of England -80 11 £500 +1.63% 8
West Midlands -62 7 £340 -12.82%
Midlands -64 7 £340 -12.82%
North West -45 5 £626 +15.39% 5
Yorkshire -59 5 £500 +2.15% 3
East of England -21 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 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) AWS
3 6 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) GCP
4 3 (3.45%) IaaS
4 3 (3.45%) PaaS
4 3 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.15%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.15%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.15%) OCI
6 1 (1.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (62.07%) Firewall
2 42 (48.28%) WAN
3 39 (44.83%) BGP
4 34 (39.08%) LAN
5 32 (36.78%) OSPF
6 28 (32.18%) VLAN
7 26 (29.89%) VPN
8 24 (27.59%) VXLAN
9 21 (24.14%) SD-WAN
9 21 (24.14%) Wireless
10 20 (22.99%) Cisco ASA
10 20 (22.99%) DNS
11 19 (21.84%) Network Security
12 16 (18.39%) IPsec
12 16 (18.39%) MPLS
13 14 (16.09%) BIG-IP
13 14 (16.09%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (16.09%) NX-OS
14 13 (14.94%) Wireshark
15 12 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.15%) Git
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Finance
3 7 (8.05%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.90%) Legal
4 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Police
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Law
8 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (63.22%) Network Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Architect
3 11 (12.64%) Network Architect
4 6 (6.90%) Senior
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Lead
5 5 (5.75%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Lead Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.45%) IP Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) IP Network Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) LDAP
1 7 (8.05%) SAML
2 6 (6.90%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.60%) REST
4 2 (2.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (47.13%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.90%) PKI
3 6 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) Celerra
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.45%) EMC Centera
5 3 (3.45%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (3.45%) EMC VNX
5 3 (3.45%) IBM XIV
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.45%) Symmetrix
5 3 (3.45%) Symmetrix DMX
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.24%) Windows
2 8 (9.20%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) CatOS
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) VMS
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.84%) ITIL
2 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
4 12 (13.79%) Change Management
4 12 (13.79%) Load Balancing
4 12 (13.79%) Migration
4 12 (13.79%) Network Architecture
4 12 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
4 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
5 11 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (9.20%) Network Design
7 7 (8.05%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (8.05%) Data Protection
7 7 (8.05%) Network Management
7 7 (8.05%) Presales
7 7 (8.05%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.05%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.20%) Python
2 2 (2.30%) ActionScript
2 2 (2.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (28.74%) CCNP
4 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
5 16 (18.39%) DV Cleared
6 9 (10.34%) Degree
7 8 (9.20%) CCNA
8 5 (5.75%) CCIE
8 5 (5.75%) CCSE
8 5 (5.75%) CCSM
9 4 (4.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.30%) CCIP
11 2 (2.30%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.30%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) NCSC
2 5 (5.75%) SLA
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (19.54%) VMware NSX
3 11 (12.64%) Active Directory
3 11 (12.64%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.75%) vSphere
6 3 (3.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (3.45%) Firmware
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.30%) vCloud
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Ansible
2 7 (8.05%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (6.90%) FortiGate
3 6 (6.90%) Terraform
4 5 (5.75%) Avamar
5 3 (3.45%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.15%) CASB
7 1 (1.15%) Grafana
7 1 (1.15%) Nessus
7 1 (1.15%) SCCM
7 1 (1.15%) SCOM
7 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (45.98%) F5
3 35 (40.23%) VMware
4 32 (36.78%) Palo Alto
5 18 (20.69%) CheckPoint
5 18 (20.69%) Fortinet
6 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
6 14 (16.09%) SolarWinds
7 9 (10.34%) Juniper
8 5 (5.75%) Aruba
8 5 (5.75%) NetApp
9 4 (4.60%) Arista
9 4 (4.60%) HP
9 4 (4.60%) IBM
9 4 (4.60%) Meraki
9 4 (4.60%) Veeam
10 3 (3.45%) 3PAR
10 3 (3.45%) Brocade
10 3 (3.45%) EMC
11 2 (2.30%) Isilon