Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cisco Nexus
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 118 117
Rank change year-on-year -38 -1 +71
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 4 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.17% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 1.22% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £277 - £423
25th Percentile £299 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -4.76% +15.07%
75th Percentile £491 - £600
90th Percentile £579 - £606
England median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 403 327 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.95% 14.00% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 174 293
10th Percentile £163 £167 £213
25th Percentile £290 £255 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -3.95%
75th Percentile £508 £583 £550
90th Percentile £582 £715 £675
England median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 28
10th Percentile £16.49 £13.40 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.59 £18.28 £20.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +5.13% -5.15%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.80 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +27.03%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Nexus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the Midlands

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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 Midlands -36 4 £340 -32.00% 1
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Ethereal
2 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 3 (75.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (75.00%) IPsec
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) NetScout
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds