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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 352 397
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 +155
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 65 46 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.92% 3.06% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 34
10th Percentile £400 £350 £377
25th Percentile £408 £440 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -11.49% +17.50%
75th Percentile £525 £572 £654
90th Percentile £579 £621 £700
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 1,321 1,503 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.91% 9.37% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 957 1,614
10th Percentile £289 £251 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £724 £750
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +34.50%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +16 23 £450 -10.45%
South London - 10 £525 -
Central London -3 2 £488 +2.63% 1
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) Akamai
2 5 (7.69%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) AWS
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (81.54%) Firewall
2 38 (58.46%) LAN
3 33 (50.77%) SD-WAN
4 29 (44.62%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (33.85%) WAN
6 15 (23.08%) BGP
6 15 (23.08%) OSPF
7 13 (20.00%) VPN
8 9 (13.85%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (13.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (12.31%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (10.77%) MPLS
10 7 (10.77%) SNMP
10 7 (10.77%) VXLAN
10 7 (10.77%) Wireshark
11 6 (9.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (9.23%) Multicast
11 6 (9.23%) Network Security
12 5 (7.69%) BIG-IP
12 5 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 10 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Law
4 4 (6.15%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Legal
5 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Advertising
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (49.23%) Network Engineer
2 22 (33.85%) Architect
3 18 (27.69%) Network Architect
4 10 (15.38%) Network Design Architect
5 8 (12.31%) Senior
6 7 (10.77%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Designer
8 5 (7.69%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Network Designer
9 4 (6.15%) Consultant
9 4 (6.15%) Network Specialist
10 3 (4.62%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (4.62%) LAN Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Network Design Specialist
10 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Technical Design Architect
10 3 (4.62%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.08%) Network Design
2 11 (16.92%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (13.85%) High Availability
4 7 (10.77%) ITIL
4 7 (10.77%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (7.69%) Change Management
5 5 (7.69%) Load Balancing
6 4 (6.15%) Data Protection
6 4 (6.15%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Incident Response
7 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (4.62%) Low Latency
7 3 (4.62%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (4.62%) Problem Management
7 3 (4.62%) Process Improvement
7 3 (4.62%) Task Automation
7 3 (4.62%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) SC Cleared
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (18.46%) CCNP
4 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.62%) CCIE
5 2 (3.08%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.54%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) CCSP
6 1 (1.54%) CISSP
6 1 (1.54%) Degree
6 1 (1.54%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.54%) NIST
1 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.08%) Firmware
1 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.08%) KVM
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) FortiGate
2 10 (15.38%) Ansible
3 4 (6.15%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.08%) Terraform
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.54%) Nagios
5 1 (1.54%) OpenView
5 1 (1.54%) OPNET
5 1 (1.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (61.54%) Fortinet
3 20 (30.77%) F5
4 13 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 13 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 11 (16.92%) Juniper
6 9 (13.85%) CheckPoint
7 6 (9.23%) VMware
8 5 (7.69%) Arista
9 4 (6.15%) Aruba
10 3 (4.62%) AlgoSec
10 3 (4.62%) Infoblox
10 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.62%) Splunk
11 2 (3.08%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (3.08%) NetScout
11 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.54%) Meraki
12 1 (1.54%) Tufin