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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 344 390
Rank change year-on-year +16 +46 +94
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 54 37 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.15% 2.41% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 28
10th Percentile £393 £369 £335
25th Percentile £406 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £600
90th Percentile £575 £675 £651
England median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%

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 1,302 1,534 2,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.06% 9.76% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 945 1,378
10th Percentile £309 £256 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £29.69 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £45.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £80.06 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +8 23 £450 -7.69%
South London - 7 £488 -
Central London -4 1 £425 -30.61% 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 8 (14.81%) Akamai
2 4 (7.41%) Azure
3 2 (3.70%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
3 2 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.85%) IaaS
4 1 (1.85%) PaaS
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (88.89%) Firewall
2 33 (61.11%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (59.26%) LAN
4 29 (53.70%) SD-WAN
5 19 (35.19%) WAN
6 16 (29.63%) BGP
7 15 (27.78%) OSPF
8 10 (18.52%) VPN
9 8 (14.81%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (14.81%) Network Security
9 8 (14.81%) SNMP
10 7 (12.96%) Wireshark
11 4 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (7.41%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (7.41%) VLAN
11 4 (7.41%) VXLAN
12 3 (5.56%) EIGRP
12 3 (5.56%) Internet
12 3 (5.56%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 10 (18.52%) Telecoms
2 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.41%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Law
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Network Engineer
2 22 (40.74%) Architect
3 18 (33.33%) Network Architect
4 10 (18.52%) Network Design Architect
5 7 (12.96%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Designer
7 5 (9.26%) Juniper Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Network Designer
7 5 (9.26%) Network Specialist
8 3 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Network Design Specialist
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Design Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Network Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Network Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) VML
2 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (40.74%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Network Design
2 8 (14.81%) High Availability
3 7 (12.96%) Load Balancing
3 7 (12.96%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.56%) DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) Low Latency
6 3 (5.56%) Migration
6 3 (5.56%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (3.70%) Benchmarking
7 2 (3.70%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (3.70%) Decision-Making
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (3.70%) Machine Learning
7 2 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (3.70%) Project Management
7 2 (3.70%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.37%) CCNP
3 11 (20.37%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.26%) CCIE
5 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.85%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) CCSA
6 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.70%) KVM
1 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) FortiGate
2 6 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (68.52%) Fortinet
3 17 (31.48%) F5
4 12 (22.22%) Juniper
4 12 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 10 (18.52%) Palo Alto
6 5 (9.26%) Aruba
6 5 (9.26%) CheckPoint
6 5 (9.26%) Meraki
7 3 (5.56%) Arista
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
7 3 (5.56%) VMware
8 2 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (3.70%) NetScout
9 1 (1.85%) EMC
9 1 (1.85%) NVIDIA