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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 321 356
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 +120
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 38 36 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.00% 2.51% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 31
10th Percentile £400 £366 £350
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £523 £675 £600
90th Percentile £619 - £630
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 1,268 1,436 1,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.79% 9.91% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 881 1,267
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £638
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 37 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +5.00% -38.04% +50.64%

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 2 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 2 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 - 16 £450 -
South London - 5 £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 (10.53%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Akamai
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (86.84%) Firewall
2 25 (65.79%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (57.89%) LAN
4 20 (52.63%) SD-WAN
5 18 (47.37%) WAN
6 13 (34.21%) BGP
7 12 (31.58%) OSPF
8 11 (28.95%) VPN
9 6 (15.79%) Network Security
10 4 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (10.53%) EIGRP
10 4 (10.53%) SNMP
10 4 (10.53%) VoIP
11 3 (7.89%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (7.89%) Internet
11 3 (7.89%) NX-OS
11 3 (7.89%) VLAN
11 3 (7.89%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Retail
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Law
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 15 (39.47%) Architect
3 14 (36.84%) Network Architect
4 9 (23.68%) Network Design Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Designer
6 4 (10.53%) Network Designer
7 3 (7.89%) Network Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Network Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Design Specialist
8 2 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 1 (2.63%) Monitoring Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Network Monitoring Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Senior
9 1 (2.63%) Technical Design Architect
9 1 (2.63%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) VML
2 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Network Design
2 7 (18.42%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
5 4 (10.53%) High Availability
6 3 (7.89%) ITIL
6 3 (7.89%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (7.89%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (5.26%) AI
7 2 (5.26%) B2B
7 2 (5.26%) Benchmarking
7 2 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.26%) Change Management
7 2 (5.26%) Data Protection
7 2 (5.26%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.26%) ETL
7 2 (5.26%) Machine Learning
7 2 (5.26%) Migration
7 2 (5.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) CCNP
3 11 (28.95%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (13.16%) CCIE
5 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.63%) CCNA
6 1 (2.63%) CCSA
6 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.26%) KVM
1 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Ansible
1 5 (13.16%) FortiGate
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (60.53%) Fortinet
3 10 (26.32%) F5
3 10 (26.32%) Palo Alto
4 8 (21.05%) SolarWinds
5 7 (18.42%) Aruba
6 6 (15.79%) Juniper
6 6 (15.79%) Meraki
7 5 (13.16%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.26%) Arista
8 2 (5.26%) NetScout
8 2 (5.26%) VMware
9 1 (2.63%) EMC
9 1 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA