Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Nexus
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 338 389
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 +112
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 56 41 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.25% 2.75% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 31
10th Percentile £400 £408 £375
25th Percentile £406 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £663 £600
90th Percentile £575 £676 £663
England median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,318 1,491 2,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.39% 9.48% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 924 1,478
10th Percentile £300 £258 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 55
10th Percentile £19.60 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +49.00% -
75th Percentile £36.38 £49.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £61.30 £74.10 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -31.31% -12.37% +25.53%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Nexus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in London

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in London over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in London

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
West London +9 23 £450 -7.69%
South London - 8 £550 -
Central London +5 1 £425 -15.00% 5
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Akamai
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (5.36%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) GCP
4 2 (3.57%) OCI
5 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) PaaS
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (89.29%) Firewall
2 34 (60.71%) LAN
3 30 (53.57%) SD-WAN
3 30 (53.57%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (33.93%) WAN
5 13 (23.21%) BGP
5 13 (23.21%) OSPF
6 9 (16.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (16.07%) Network Security
6 9 (16.07%) VPN
7 8 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (12.50%) SNMP
8 7 (12.50%) Wireshark
9 4 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (7.14%) VLAN
9 4 (7.14%) VXLAN
10 3 (5.36%) BIG-IP
10 3 (5.36%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 10 (17.86%) Telecoms
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 4 (7.14%) Law
4 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 22 (39.29%) Architect
3 18 (32.14%) Network Architect
4 10 (17.86%) Network Design Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Designer
6 5 (8.93%) Juniper Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Designer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Specialist
7 4 (7.14%) Senior
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Network Design Specialist
8 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Design Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Cisco Network Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Network Design
2 9 (16.07%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (14.29%) High Availability
4 7 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (5.36%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.36%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.36%) DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Low Latency
6 3 (5.36%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.57%) AI
7 2 (3.57%) Decision-Making
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (3.57%) Machine Learning
7 2 (3.57%) Migration
7 2 (3.57%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (3.57%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (3.57%) Project Delivery
7 2 (3.57%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (16.07%) CCNP
5 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) CCIE
6 2 (3.57%) Degree
7 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.79%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) CCSA
7 1 (1.79%) CCSP
7 1 (1.79%) CISSP
7 1 (1.79%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.79%) NIST
1 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.57%) KVM
1 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) FortiGate
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (69.64%) Fortinet
3 16 (28.57%) F5
4 13 (23.21%) Palo Alto
4 13 (23.21%) SolarWinds
5 12 (21.43%) Juniper
6 4 (7.14%) VMware
7 3 (5.36%) Arista
7 3 (5.36%) Aruba
7 3 (5.36%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.36%) Meraki
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (3.57%) NetScout
9 1 (1.79%) EMC
9 1 (1.79%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.79%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.79%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.79%) Splunk
9 1 (1.79%) Zscaler