Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cisco Nexus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 140 167
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 +54
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 6 30 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.82% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 4.42% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 16
10th Percentile £314 £480 £335
25th Percentile £331 £488 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £441
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +18.98% -19.77%
75th Percentile £524 £586 £490
90th Percentile £532 £624 £500
England median daily rate £438 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £65.98

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 621 678 1,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.21% 18.46% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 390 624
10th Percentile £204 £237 £200
25th Percentile £333 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% -6.72%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 67
10th Percentile £18.32 £31.25 £23.28
25th Percentile £28.63 £35.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £70.16 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.97% +0.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £87.82 £63.75 £73.57
90th Percentile £90.45 £70.00 £77.12
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -8.57% -37.99% +25.43%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the South East

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the South East over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the South East

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire -13 3 £323 - 3
Thames Valley -26 3 £323 -47.56% 3
Surrey -18 2 £523 +4.50%
Hampshire -23 1 - -
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) NGFW
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) FlexPod
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Encryption
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) Commvault
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) VMware