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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 344 389
Rank change year-on-year +34 +45 +123
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 61 49 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.82% 3.14% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 39 33
10th Percentile £400 £435 £375
25th Percentile £406 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £523 £638 £600
90th Percentile £594 £678 £673
England median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -14.29%
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 1,266 1,561 2,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.46% 9.73% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 965 1,487
10th Percentile £283 £256 £252
25th Percentile £404 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £712 £725 £750
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 45
10th Percentile £18.69 £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £24.39 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +10.62%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.27 £79.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%

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 16 October 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 October 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 +20 23 £450 -10.45%
South London - 8 £550 -
Central London -1 1 £425 -15.00% 2
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 (13.11%) Akamai
2 6 (9.84%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) AWS
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.64%) IaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (85.25%) Firewall
2 37 (60.66%) LAN
3 32 (52.46%) SD-WAN
4 31 (50.82%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (36.07%) WAN
6 16 (26.23%) BGP
6 16 (26.23%) OSPF
7 12 (19.67%) VPN
8 9 (14.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (13.11%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (11.48%) Network Security
10 7 (11.48%) SNMP
10 7 (11.48%) Wireshark
11 6 (9.84%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (9.84%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (9.84%) VXLAN
12 5 (8.20%) BIG-IP
12 5 (8.20%) MPLS
13 4 (6.56%) DNS
13 4 (6.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.64%) Git
General
1 10 (16.39%) Telecoms
2 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Law
4 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (49.18%) Network Engineer
2 22 (36.07%) Architect
3 18 (29.51%) Network Architect
4 10 (16.39%) Network Design Architect
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Designer
6 5 (8.20%) Juniper Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Network Designer
6 5 (8.20%) Network Specialist
6 5 (8.20%) Senior
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Network Design Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Technical Design Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Implementation Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) LAN Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Network Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.07%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.23%) Network Design
2 12 (19.67%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (13.11%) High Availability
4 7 (11.48%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (8.20%) ITIL
6 4 (6.56%) Change Management
6 4 (6.56%) Data Protection
6 4 (6.56%) Load Balancing
6 4 (6.56%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (4.92%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (4.92%) DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Low Latency
7 3 (4.92%) Process Improvement
7 3 (4.92%) Task Automation
8 2 (3.28%) Machine Learning
8 2 (3.28%) Migration
8 2 (3.28%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (3.28%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (3.28%) Security Management
8 2 (3.28%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (19.67%) CCNP
4 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.92%) CCIE
5 2 (3.28%) CCIE Data Center
5 2 (3.28%) Degree
6 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.64%) CCNA
6 1 (1.64%) CCSA
6 1 (1.64%) CCSP
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.64%) NIST
1 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Firmware
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.28%) KVM
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) FortiGate
2 10 (16.39%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Terraform
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (65.57%) Fortinet
3 18 (29.51%) F5
4 14 (22.95%) SolarWinds
5 12 (19.67%) Palo Alto
6 10 (16.39%) Juniper
7 6 (9.84%) CheckPoint
8 5 (8.20%) Arista
9 4 (6.56%) Aruba
9 4 (6.56%) VMware
10 3 (4.92%) AlgoSec
10 3 (4.92%) Infoblox
10 3 (4.92%) Meraki
10 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
11 2 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (3.28%) NetScout
11 2 (3.28%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
12 1 (1.64%) Splunk
12 1 (1.64%) Tufin