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 requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 120 132
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 3 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.11% 0.11% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.16% 0.70% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £320 - £320
25th Percentile £350 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £488
90th Percentile £480 - £518
England median daily rate £350 £525 £433
% change year-on-year -33.33% +21.39% -17.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
England median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 258 285 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.72% 15.25% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 182 292
10th Percentile £263 £300 £267
25th Percentile £386 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £675
90th Percentile £725 £699 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.88% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 68
10th Percentile £15.62 £12.26 £40.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +18.64% +476.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £65.85 - £75.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +141.49%

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 job vacancy trend 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.

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 3 February 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.

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 3 February 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
Wiltshire - 2 £500 - 1
Dorset - 1 £300 - 1
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VMware