Cisco Nexus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Nexus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 301 356
Rank change year-on-year +30 +55 +64
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 64 96 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.16% 2.90% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 47 42
10th Percentile £400 £243 £325
25th Percentile £425 £335 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £396 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% -6.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £599 £460 £488
90th Percentile £630 £565 £554
UK median daily rate £500 £433 £475
% change year-on-year +15.51% -8.87% -9.52%
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
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - £62.62
% change year-on-year - - +23.99%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,026 3,306 3,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 16.04% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,890 2,185
10th Percentile £200 £205 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £581
90th Percentile £625 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 356 299
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.88 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.97% +162.17% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £59.54
90th Percentile £81.22 £70.66 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.34
% change year-on-year -6.25% +118.16% -33.33%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK excluding London

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South West +50 17 £555 +23.33% 5
North of England -4 17 £492 +24.24% 3
Scotland - 13 £450 - 3
South East +12 9 £583 +55.33% 21
North West -8 9 £535 +28.50%
Yorkshire +16 8 £479 +133.54% 3
Midlands +3 8 £538 -10.42% 6
West Midlands +8 5 £538 - 3
East Midlands +5 3 - - 3
East of England +25 1 £600 +60.00%
Wales - 1 £150 -
Cisco Nexus
UK

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.13%) GCP
4 2 (3.13%) npm
4 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 46 (71.88%) Firewall
2 34 (53.13%) WAN
3 29 (45.31%) BGP
4 28 (43.75%) VPN
5 25 (39.06%) SD-WAN
6 23 (35.94%) OSPF
7 22 (34.38%) Cisco ASA
7 22 (34.38%) LAN
8 15 (23.44%) Wireless
9 13 (20.31%) Network Security
10 12 (18.75%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (18.75%) VXLAN
11 11 (17.19%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (17.19%) TCP/IP
12 10 (15.63%) MPLS
13 9 (14.06%) EIGRP
14 8 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (10.94%) DMVPN
15 7 (10.94%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.13%) webpack
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Advertising
3 4 (6.25%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Legal
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (76.56%) Network Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Implementation Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Field Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Network Field Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Network Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Software Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Spine.js
2 2 (3.13%) CSS
2 2 (3.13%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) Jest
2 2 (3.13%) React
2 2 (3.13%) RESTful
2 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) PKI
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.19%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (15.63%) Network Architecture
3 9 (14.06%) Migration
4 7 (10.94%) High Availability
5 6 (9.38%) Network Design
6 5 (7.81%) Analytics
6 5 (7.81%) Change Management
6 5 (7.81%) DevSecOps
6 5 (7.81%) ITIL
6 5 (7.81%) Load Balancing
6 5 (7.81%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.81%) Service Management
6 5 (7.81%) System Testing
6 5 (7.81%) TOGAF
6 5 (7.81%) Validation
7 4 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
8 3 (4.69%) Adaptive Security
8 3 (4.69%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) Java
2 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (51.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
4 18 (28.13%) CCNP
5 8 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (10.94%) CCNA
7 6 (9.38%) CCIE
7 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.69%) MCSE
8 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.13%) Degree
9 2 (3.13%) JNCIA
9 2 (3.13%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.56%) CCDP
10 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (6.25%) NCSC
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.81%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.13%) Firmware
4 1 (1.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) vCenter Server
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
2 5 (7.81%) Terraform
3 4 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (48.44%) Palo Alto
3 13 (20.31%) VMware
4 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 9 (14.06%) F5
6 6 (9.38%) Fortinet
7 5 (7.81%) SolarWinds
8 4 (6.25%) Arista
9 3 (4.69%) Aruba
9 3 (4.69%) Meraki
10 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.56%) Snow
11 1 (1.56%) Splunk