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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 94 137
Rank change year-on-year -37 +43 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 16 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.48% 0.89% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.08% 5.81% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 2
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £465 £475 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £295
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +88.14% -37.89%
75th Percentile £561 £669 £318
90th Percentile £668 £688 -
England median daily rate £465 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -11.43% +31.25% -23.81%

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 263 258 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.94% 15.29% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 173 333
10th Percentile £281 £250 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +7.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £711 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 41
10th Percentile £12.60 £33.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.56 £65.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%
75th Percentile £72.28 - £70.66
90th Percentile £91.63 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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
Devon - 7 £495 - 3
Wiltshire -22 5 £513 -24.07%
Dorset - 3 £645 - 1
Somerset -18 1 £550 +6.28% 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Google Ads
2 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) BGP
1 14 (87.50%) OSPF
2 11 (68.75%) VLAN
3 10 (62.50%) VXLAN
4 6 (37.50%) NX-OS
5 4 (25.00%) Firewall
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (12.50%) DNS
7 2 (12.50%) LAN
7 2 (12.50%) Network Security
7 2 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (12.50%) VoIP
7 2 (12.50%) WAN
8 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
8 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
8 1 (6.25%) tcpdump
8 1 (6.25%) Wireless
8 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Police
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Architect
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Design Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Design Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Commercial Awareness
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Network Design
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Service Design
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (6.25%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) IT Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.25%) Low Latency
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Protective Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CCIE
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 2 (12.50%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto