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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 329 351
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +116
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 34 35 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 2.48% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 33
10th Percentile £400 £365 £363
25th Percentile £408 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £600
90th Percentile £631 - £627
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

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 1,252 1,414 1,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.75% 9.88% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 868 1,259
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £628 £636
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +10.67% +26.50%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +71.18%

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 4 January 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 4 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
West London - 14 £450 -
South London - 3 £480 -
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 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) GCP
2 2 (5.88%) OCI
3 1 (2.94%) Akamai
3 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.94%) IaaS
3 1 (2.94%) PaaS
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (85.29%) Firewall
2 23 (67.65%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (58.82%) LAN
4 18 (52.94%) SD-WAN
4 18 (52.94%) WAN
5 11 (32.35%) BGP
5 11 (32.35%) VPN
6 10 (29.41%) OSPF
7 5 (14.71%) Network Security
8 4 (11.76%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
8 4 (11.76%) VoIP
9 3 (8.82%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (8.82%) Internet
9 3 (8.82%) NX-OS
9 3 (8.82%) VLAN
9 3 (8.82%) VXLAN
10 2 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (5.88%) IOS XR
10 2 (5.88%) Junos
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Law
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 13 (38.24%) Architect
3 12 (35.29%) Network Architect
4 8 (23.53%) Network Design Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Network Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Designer
7 2 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Designer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Specialist
8 1 (2.94%) Data Network Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Monitoring Specialist
8 1 (2.94%) Network Design Specialist
8 1 (2.94%) Network Monitoring Specialist
8 1 (2.94%) Network Security Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Design Architect
8 1 (2.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) VML
2 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Network Design
2 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.65%) Load Balancing
4 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
4 5 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (8.82%) ITIL
5 3 (8.82%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (5.88%) AI
6 2 (5.88%) B2B
6 2 (5.88%) Benchmarking
6 2 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.88%) Change Management
6 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) ETL
6 2 (5.88%) High Availability
6 2 (5.88%) Migration
6 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (5.88%) Project Management
6 2 (5.88%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) CCNP
2 11 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) CCIE
4 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) CCSA
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.88%) KVM
1 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 3 (8.82%) FortiGate
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Cisco
2 19 (55.88%) Fortinet
3 10 (29.41%) Palo Alto
4 8 (23.53%) F5
5 7 (20.59%) Aruba
6 6 (17.65%) Meraki
6 6 (17.65%) SolarWinds
7 5 (14.71%) CheckPoint
8 4 (11.76%) Juniper
9 2 (5.88%) Arista
9 2 (5.88%) NetScout
9 2 (5.88%) VMware
10 1 (2.94%) EMC
10 1 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.94%) NVIDIA