Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco Nexus
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 128 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 3 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.42% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.03% 3.50% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £353 - £300
25th Percentile £380 £273 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £295 £338
Median % change year-on-year +52.54% -12.59% -35.71%
75th Percentile £505 £446 £388
90th Percentile £523 £524 £399
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 290 286 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.47% 12.10% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 165 289
10th Percentile £147 £267 £313
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.02% +2.32%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £588
90th Percentile £678 £825 £638
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.43 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £37.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -44.93%
75th Percentile £57.44 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.54 £57.65 £49.35
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 the North West

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the North West

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the North West

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Merseyside +1 1 £535 +81.36%
Manchester -6 1 £450 -18.18% 1
Lancashire - 1 £335 - 1
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) IGMP
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) LAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor