Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends

Cisco Nexus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 439 445
Rank change year-on-year -55 +6 +136
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 96 116 190
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.37% 2.65% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 70 104
10th Percentile £361 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £440 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £550
90th Percentile £575 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,045 4,371 6,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.33% 12.06% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 2,522 4,068
10th Percentile £206 £225 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £686 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 164 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.17 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.77 £24.42 £22.88
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% -18.18% +30.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.27% -13.26% +25.53%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 November 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
England -55 77 £450 -14.29% 23
London +12 55 £450 -14.29% 10
UK excluding London -62 35 £438 -12.50% 15
Work from Home -21 18 £475 -5.00% 11
Scotland +8 13 £425 +9.68% 2
North of England -43 8 £470 -14.59% 5
South East -17 6 £510 +2.00% 4
Yorkshire -39 5 £490 +78.00%
Midlands -36 4 £255 -49.00% 1
West Midlands -29 3 £255 -49.00% 1
North West -30 3 £335 -39.09% 4
South West +1 2 £500 +11.11% 2
East of England -23 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.04%) CICS
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
1 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) AWS
3 8 (8.33%) Akamai
4 6 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.08%) npm
5 2 (2.08%) OCI
5 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.04%) GitHub
6 1 (1.04%) IaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.04%) PaaS
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (79.17%) Firewall
2 48 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 46 (47.92%) LAN
4 42 (43.75%) WAN
5 40 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (25.00%) BGP
7 23 (23.96%) OSPF
8 19 (19.79%) VPN
9 17 (17.71%) Cisco ISE
10 16 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (14.58%) Wireless
12 12 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (12.50%) Network Security
13 10 (10.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 8 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (8.33%) EIGRP
15 7 (7.29%) MPLS
15 7 (7.29%) SNMP
15 7 (7.29%) Wireshark
16 6 (6.25%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.08%) webpack
4 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 12 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 9 (9.38%) Finance
3 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Law
7 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (56.25%) Network Engineer
2 25 (26.04%) Architect
3 20 (20.83%) Network Architect
4 11 (11.46%) Cisco Engineer
4 11 (11.46%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Network Design Architect
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Designer
7 5 (5.21%) Juniper Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Network Designer
7 5 (5.21%) Network Specialist
8 4 (4.17%) Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Implementation Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Field Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Network Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.08%) CSS
2 2 (2.08%) HTML
2 2 (2.08%) Jest
2 2 (2.08%) React
2 2 (2.08%) REST
2 2 (2.08%) RESTful
2 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.08%) Web Services
3 1 (1.04%) LDAP
3 1 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.04%) Clustering
6 1 (1.04%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.04%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) MVS
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Solaris
3 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.83%) Network Design
2 14 (14.58%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (13.54%) High Availability
4 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
5 9 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 8 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (6.25%) Data Protection
8 6 (6.25%) DevOps
8 6 (6.25%) Migration
8 6 (6.25%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (5.21%) Analytics
9 5 (5.21%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (5.21%) Change Management
9 5 (5.21%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (4.17%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (4.17%) Zero Trust
11 3 (3.13%) Decision-Making
11 3 (3.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (3.13%) Java
3 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (30.21%) Security Cleared
3 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
4 22 (22.92%) CCNP
5 7 (7.29%) CCIE
5 7 (7.29%) CCNA
6 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.13%) Degree
7 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.04%) CCSA
7 1 (1.04%) CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) CISSP
7 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) GSEC
7 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.13%) KVM
2 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.08%) Firmware
4 1 (1.04%) NFS
4 1 (1.04%) SRDF
4 1 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.04%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Ansible
2 12 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.21%) Terraform
4 4 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.08%) OpenView
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (40.63%) Fortinet
3 28 (29.17%) F5
4 24 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 20 (20.83%) SolarWinds
6 13 (13.54%) Juniper
7 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
8 10 (10.42%) Meraki
9 8 (8.33%) VMware
10 6 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (5.21%) CheckPoint
12 4 (4.17%) Aruba
13 3 (3.13%) Arista
13 3 (3.13%) NetScout
14 2 (2.08%) EMC
14 2 (2.08%) NetApp
14 2 (2.08%) Qualys
14 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
15 1 (1.04%) Commvault
15 1 (1.04%) Oracle