Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cisco Nexus
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 106 128
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 +44
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 2 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.097% 0.69% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 3.67% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £561 £335
25th Percentile - £566 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £615 £468
Median % change year-on-year -44.72% +31.55% -16.89%
75th Percentile - £630 £490
90th Percentile - - £491
South East median daily rate £520 £525 £441
% change year-on-year -0.95% +18.98% -19.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 381 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.56% 18.84% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 190 351
10th Percentile £225 £231 £180
25th Percentile £325 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £588
90th Percentile £611 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 24
10th Percentile £19.00 £22.28 £23.74
25th Percentile £45.50 £27.94 £24.19
Median hourly rate £77.00 £38.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.31% +27.50% +50.00%
75th Percentile £89.63 £48.94 £75.36
90th Percentile - £54.83 £81.01
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Berkshire -11 2 £340 - 2
Cisco Nexus
South East

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) FlexPod
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) VMware