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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 447 437
Rank change year-on-year -107 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 118 112 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 2.94% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 76 81
10th Percentile £380 £381 £331
25th Percentile £422 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -8.45% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £550
90th Percentile £674 £563 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £28.40 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £56.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £66.65 £39.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 - -

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 5,069 3,807 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.56% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,937 2,354 2,642
10th Percentile £231 £225 £225
25th Percentile £389 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 198 255
10th Percentile £14.46 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £29.50 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% -14.85% -10.60%
75th Percentile £67.49 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.67 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.26%

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 16 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

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 16 September 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 -142 97 £500 +5.26% 81
UK excluding London -67 77 £500 +7.41% 35
London -126 28 £500 +11.11% 45
Work from Home -45 27 £463 +2.78% 34
North of England -69 20 £500 +1.88% 10
South West -32 18 £525 -1.87% 4
South East -57 17 £463 -9.31% 9
Scotland -16 16 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire -41 14 £500 +1.63% 6
North West -42 5 £563 +25.11% 3
Midlands -46 5 £450 -14.29% 6
West Midlands -53 5 £450 -14.29% 6
East of England -22 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - - 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 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 14 (11.86%) AWS
3 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.54%) GitHub
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.69%) GCP
7 2 (1.69%) IBM Watson
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.85%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.85%) OCI
8 1 (0.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 67 (56.78%) Firewall
2 54 (45.76%) BGP
3 53 (44.92%) WAN
4 51 (43.22%) LAN
5 45 (38.14%) OSPF
6 41 (34.75%) VPN
7 36 (30.51%) VLAN
8 34 (28.81%) Network Security
9 31 (26.27%) Wireless
10 28 (23.73%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (22.88%) Cisco ASA
12 25 (21.19%) DNS
12 25 (21.19%) SD-WAN
12 25 (21.19%) VXLAN
13 24 (20.34%) MPLS
14 21 (17.80%) Cisco Firepower
15 19 (16.10%) IPsec
15 19 (16.10%) TCP/IP
16 18 (15.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 14 (11.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.54%) Git
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Finance
5 6 (5.08%) Legal
5 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.08%) Police
5 6 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 2 (1.69%) Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (61.86%) Network Engineer
2 23 (19.49%) Senior
3 17 (14.41%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (11.86%) Architect
5 10 (8.47%) Network Architect
6 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 6 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.24%) Cisco Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.39%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Network Specialist
9 4 (3.39%) NOC Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.54%) Consultant
10 3 (2.54%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (2.54%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.17%) 802.1X
2 6 (5.08%) Terraform
3 5 (4.24%) REST
3 5 (4.24%) YAML
4 3 (2.54%) JSON
4 3 (2.54%) LDAP
4 3 (2.54%) SAML
5 2 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (45.76%) Data Centre
2 13 (11.02%) PKI
3 9 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.93%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.54%) Celerra
6 3 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.54%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.54%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.54%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.54%) IBM XIV
6 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.54%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.54%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.95%) Windows
2 14 (11.86%) Linux
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.54%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.85%) CatOS
5 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.25%) ITIL
1 18 (15.25%) Load Balancing
1 18 (15.25%) Network Monitoring
1 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
1 18 (15.25%) Roadmaps
2 17 (14.41%) Migration
3 16 (13.56%) High Availability
4 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
5 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (11.86%) Network Management
5 14 (11.86%) Project Delivery
6 13 (11.02%) Change Management
6 13 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (10.17%) Network Architecture
7 12 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (6.78%) Data Protection
9 8 (6.78%) ITSM
9 8 (6.78%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.47%) Python
2 3 (2.54%) Bash
3 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (35.59%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (27.97%) CCNP
3 30 (25.42%) Security Cleared
4 18 (15.25%) SC Cleared
5 14 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 10 (8.47%) CCNA
7 8 (6.78%) CCIE
7 8 (6.78%) Degree
8 4 (3.39%) CCSE
8 4 (3.39%) CCSM
8 4 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.85%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.85%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.85%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (4.24%) NCSC
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) SLA
3 2 (1.69%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.17%) VMware NSX
3 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.39%) vSphere
6 3 (2.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (2.54%) Firmware
6 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.85%) Docker
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (8.47%) FortiGate
2 8 (6.78%) Ansible
3 5 (4.24%) Avamar
4 3 (2.54%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (2.54%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.85%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
5 1 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 118 (100.00%) Cisco
2 49 (41.53%) F5
3 43 (36.44%) Palo Alto
4 30 (25.42%) VMware
5 21 (17.80%) SolarWinds
6 20 (16.95%) CheckPoint
7 19 (16.10%) Fortinet
8 12 (10.17%) Aruba
8 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
9 10 (8.47%) Meraki
10 8 (6.78%) Arista
11 7 (5.93%) Juniper
11 7 (5.93%) NetApp
12 5 (4.24%) IBM
13 4 (3.39%) Isilon
13 4 (3.39%) Riverbed
14 3 (2.54%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.54%) Brocade
14 3 (2.54%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.54%) Veeam