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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 420 408
Rank change year-on-year -102 -12 +180
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 64 100 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.65% 2.47% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 102
10th Percentile £302 £360 £316
25th Percentile £336 £428 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +9.47% -7.45%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £588
90th Percentile £528 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £405
% change year-on-year -15.00% +23.46% -22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £57.60
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.28
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 3,871 4,052 5,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 12.87% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 2,354 3,612
10th Percentile £204 £213 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 140 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -37.99% +156.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £74.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year +29.05% -43.96% +205.21%

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 January 2026.

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 13 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 January 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
England -94 46 £350 -33.33% 31
UK excluding London -57 38 £425 -15.00% 33
Work from Home -19 25 £475 -5.00% 30
London -35 21 £488 -7.14% 6
Scotland +21 14 £425 +13.33% 4
South East -33 8 £340 -35.24% 12
North of England -57 6 £335 -25.56% 5
West Midlands -30 5 £308 -38.50% 2
Midlands -35 5 £308 -38.50% 2
North West -36 4 £335 -36.19% 3
South West -7 3 £400 -20.00% 2
East of England -13 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -45 2 - - 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 (1.56%) CICS
1 1 (1.56%) Confluence
1 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) AWS
3 3 (4.69%) GCP
3 3 (4.69%) IaaS
3 3 (4.69%) PaaS
3 3 (4.69%) SaaS
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) OCI
5 1 (1.56%) Akamai
5 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 47 (73.44%) Firewall
2 40 (62.50%) WAN
3 32 (50.00%) LAN
4 29 (45.31%) VPN
5 25 (39.06%) BGP
6 23 (35.94%) SD-WAN
7 21 (32.81%) OSPF
8 20 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
8 20 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (26.56%) Wireless
10 12 (18.75%) EIGRP
11 10 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (15.63%) IPsec
11 10 (15.63%) MPLS
12 9 (14.06%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (14.06%) Network Security
13 8 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (12.50%) DNS
13 8 (12.50%) Wireshark
14 7 (10.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Law
3 5 (7.81%) Legal
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (79.69%) Network Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Field Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Network Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Secure Network Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Network Architect
8 1 (1.56%) Network Specialist
8 1 (1.56%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) LDAP
2 6 (9.38%) SAML
3 5 (7.81%) 802.1X
4 4 (6.25%) VML
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (48.44%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) iSeries
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) CatOS
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) MVS
3 1 (1.56%) Solaris
3 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (15.63%) High Availability
2 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
3 9 (14.06%) Load Balancing
4 8 (12.50%) Migration
4 8 (12.50%) Network Design
4 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.94%) Change Management
5 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.38%) ITIL
6 6 (9.38%) Network Management
6 6 (9.38%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (7.81%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.81%) Problem Management
7 5 (7.81%) Security Management
8 4 (6.25%) Network Architecture
9 3 (4.69%) AI
9 3 (4.69%) Change Control
9 3 (4.69%) Incident Management
9 3 (4.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (1.56%) Java
2 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (42.19%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (37.50%) CCNP
3 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
4 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
5 9 (14.06%) CCIE
6 5 (7.81%) CCNA
7 4 (6.25%) Degree
8 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.56%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.56%) CCSA
10 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.56%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.56%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (17.19%) VMware NSX
3 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.69%) KVM
5 2 (3.13%) vCloud
6 1 (1.56%) Firmware
6 1 (1.56%) NFS
6 1 (1.56%) SRDF
6 1 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Ansible
2 6 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (7.81%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (7.81%) Terraform
4 4 (6.25%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 30 (46.88%) Palo Alto
3 22 (34.38%) F5
4 15 (23.44%) Meraki
5 14 (21.88%) CheckPoint
6 13 (20.31%) SolarWinds
6 13 (20.31%) VMware
7 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
8 10 (15.63%) Aruba
8 10 (15.63%) Fortinet
9 4 (6.25%) Juniper
10 3 (4.69%) Arista
11 2 (3.13%) EMC
11 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (1.56%) Forcepoint
12 1 (1.56%) IBM
12 1 (1.56%) McAfee
12 1 (1.56%) NetApp
12 1 (1.56%) Oracle
12 1 (1.56%) Qualys