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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 143 149
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 16 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 0.22% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.32% 1.37% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £475 £273 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £295 £475
Median % change year-on-year +88.14% -37.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £669 £318 £581
90th Percentile £688 - £678
England median daily rate £525 £416 £488
% change year-on-year +26.10% -14.59% -2.50%
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 - - +23.99%

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 253 510 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.09% 16.21% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 326 385
10th Percentile £244 £293 £208
25th Percentile £409 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £534 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +3.19% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 43 118
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.55 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.70%
75th Percentile - £68.46 £59.67
90th Percentile - £83.60 £76.44
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 - 9 £675 -
Gloucestershire +13 3 £500 - 4
Somerset 0 2 £518 +75.42%
Bristol - 2 - - 2
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:

Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) Firewall
2 13 (81.25%) BGP
3 10 (62.50%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (56.25%) OSPF
5 8 (50.00%) VXLAN
6 7 (43.75%) DMVPN
7 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (37.50%) LAN
8 5 (31.25%) WAN
9 3 (18.75%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (18.75%) VPN
10 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
10 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
10 2 (12.50%) HSRP
10 2 (12.50%) VRRP
10 2 (12.50%) Wireless
10 2 (12.50%) WLAN
11 1 (6.25%) IGMP
11 1 (6.25%) Multicast
General
1 3 (18.75%) Advertising
2 2 (12.50%) Military
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%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) LAN Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
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
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 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.25%) F5