Cisco Nexus Contracts in the South West

Cisco Nexus
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco Nexus over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 140 145
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 16 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.33% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.15% 1.98% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £475 £273 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -2.70% -10.19%
75th Percentile £688 £460 £497
90th Percentile - - £551
England median daily rate £500 £434 £463
% change year-on-year +15.29% -6.23% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.62
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
England median hourly rate £38.75 - £62.62
% change year-on-year - - -0.97%

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 260 555 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.48% 16.87% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 354 338
10th Percentile £235 £300 £245
25th Percentile £385 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +12.18%
75th Percentile £623 £647 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 44 95
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.58 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.56 £62.00
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £77.65
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the South West

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the South West

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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 July 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
Wiltshire +41 9 £675 +50.00% 2
Gloucestershire +26 3 £500 -
Bristol - 3 - -
Somerset 0 1 £535 +81.36%
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
1 1 (6.25%) npm
1 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 12 (75.00%) BGP
3 10 (62.50%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (56.25%) OSPF
5 7 (43.75%) DMVPN
5 7 (43.75%) VXLAN
6 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (37.50%) LAN
7 5 (31.25%) WAN
8 3 (18.75%) Spanning Tree
8 3 (18.75%) VPN
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
9 2 (12.50%) HSRP
9 2 (12.50%) VRRP
9 2 (12.50%) Wireless
9 2 (12.50%) WLAN
10 1 (6.25%) IGMP
10 1 (6.25%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 3 (18.75%) Advertising
2 2 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) LAN Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Spine.js
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Jest
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Network Architecture
2 5 (31.25%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (31.25%) Service Management
2 5 (31.25%) System Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Validation
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) NsoIT
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.25%) Coaching
5 1 (6.25%) Code Quality
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Release Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (6.25%) SDLC
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) CCNP
3 7 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 5 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) vCenter Server
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce