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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 311 354
Rank change year-on-year -53 +43 +109
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 20 37 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 2.74% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 33
10th Percentile £350 £369 £340
25th Percentile £394 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £675 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £612
England median daily rate £350 £525 £433
% change year-on-year -33.33% +21.29% -17.55%

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 1,287 1,349 1,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.63% 9.84% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 807 1,276
10th Percentile £267 £255 £206
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £619
90th Percentile £694 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 71
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £16.00
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +27.45% -0.82%
75th Percentile £28.88 £39.75 £57.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £43.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +143.90%

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 5 February 2026.

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 5 February 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
Central London -8 1 £650 +18.18% 3
South London - 1 £335 -
West London - 1 £375 - 1
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 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) Akamai
3 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Firewall
2 13 (65.00%) WAN
3 12 (60.00%) BGP
4 10 (50.00%) OSPF
5 9 (45.00%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (35.00%) LAN
6 7 (35.00%) VPN
7 6 (30.00%) SD-WAN
8 5 (25.00%) Network Security
9 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (20.00%) EIGRP
9 4 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (20.00%) NX-OS
9 4 (20.00%) VoIP
9 4 (20.00%) VXLAN
10 3 (15.00%) Internet
10 3 (15.00%) MPLS
10 3 (15.00%) VLAN
11 2 (10.00%) DMZ
11 2 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) VML
2 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Network Design
4 2 (10.00%) AI
4 2 (10.00%) B2B
4 2 (10.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) ETL
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) CCNP
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CCIE
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCSA
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) KVM
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Prime
1 3 (15.00%) FortiGate
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (40.00%) Aruba
4 7 (35.00%) Fortinet
4 7 (35.00%) SolarWinds
5 6 (30.00%) F5
5 6 (30.00%) Meraki
6 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (15.00%) Juniper
8 2 (10.00%) Arista
8 2 (10.00%) VMware
9 1 (5.00%) EMC
9 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
9 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA