Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cisco Nexus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West citing Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	146	120	124
Rank change year-on-year	-26	+4	+7
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus	11	2	5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West	0.30%	0.095%	0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.89%	0.77%	1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted	8	0	3
10^th Percentile	£435	-	-
25^th Percentile	£493	-	£440
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£563	-	£450
75^th Percentile	£594	-	£460
90^th Percentile	£626	-	-
England median daily rate	£500	£466	£525
% change year-on-year	+7.41%	-11.33%	+16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 citing communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	283	260	355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West	7.74%	12.38%	14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	159	193	218
10^th Percentile	£213	£225	£313
25^th Percentile	£463	£300	£416
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£555	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.71%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£663	£638	£619
90^th Percentile	£725	£715	£675
England median daily rate	£500	£488	£500
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	-2.50%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	45	6	19
10^th Percentile	£12.71	£16.71	£11.75
25^th Percentile	£21.33	£25.22	£38.13
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£56.50	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	+10.62%	-13.08%	+15.06%
75^th Percentile	£92.53	£64.88	£73.13
90^th Percentile	£100.00	£66.42	£75.00
England median hourly rate	£45.00	£34.00	£57.38
% change year-on-year	+32.35%	-40.74%	+1.57%

Cisco Nexus Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Cisco Nexus Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the South West over the 6 months to 1 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the South West

Cisco Nexus Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Cisco Nexus Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Wiltshire	-	5	£600	-	4
Somerset	-	3	£575	-	1
Devon	-	2	£495	-
Gloucestershire	-	1	-	-	1
Cisco Nexus England

Cisco Nexus Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Cisco Nexus also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region citing Cisco Nexus.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cisco	100.0%	11
2	Security Cleared	72.7%	8
3	VXLAN	63.6%	7
4	CCNP	54.5%	6
4	Cisco Certification	54.5%	6
4	Firewall	54.5%	6
7	Cisco IOS	45.5%	5
7	DV Cleared	45.5%	5
7	VMware	45.5%	5
10	BGP	36.4%	4
10	Continuous Improvement	36.4%	4
10	OSPF	36.4%	4
13	DMVPN	27.3%	3
13	Multicast	27.3%	3
13	Network Virtualisation	27.3%	3
13	SC Cleared	27.3%	3
13	Service Management	27.3%	3
13	VLAN	27.3%	3
13	VMware ESXi	27.3%	3
13	VMware Infrastructure	27.3%	3
13	vSphere	27.3%	3
22	Active Directory	18.2%	2
22	Cisco ISE	18.2%	2
22	Commercial Awareness	18.2%	2
22	Data ONTAP	18.2%	2
22	DNS	18.2%	2
22	F5	18.2%	2
22	Hyper-V	18.2%	2
22	Infrastructure Engineering	18.2%	2
22	Integration Testing	18.2%	2

Cisco Nexus Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	VXLAN	63.6%	7
2	Firewall	54.5%	6
3	Cisco IOS	45.5%	5
4	BGP	36.4%	4
4	OSPF	36.4%	4
6	DMVPN	27.3%	3
6	Multicast	27.3%	3
6	VLAN	27.3%	3
9	Cisco ISE	18.2%	2
9	DNS	18.2%	2
9	LAN	18.2%	2
9	Network Security	18.2%	2
9	NX-OS	18.2%	2
9	Software-Defined Networking	18.2%	2
9	Wireless	18.2%	2
16	TCP/IP	9.1%	1
16	WAN	9.1%	1
16	WLAN	9.1%	1