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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 417 429
Rank change year-on-year -123 +12 +104
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 113 114 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.34% 3.06% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 68 102
10th Percentile £347 £400 £301
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £581 £550 £544
90th Percentile £675 £620 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £492 £425
% change year-on-year -5.49% +15.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £28.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £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 4,826 3,725 5,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 12.32% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 2,268 3,192
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +2.77% -4.57% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 177 430
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.88 £44.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.64% -2.22% +136.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.10 £77.00 £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £33.89 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.32% -28.66% +150.00%

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 26 June 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 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 26 June 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 -136 84 £498 -0.50% 22
UK excluding London -94 82 £465 -5.49% 23
Work from Home -58 32 £463 -7.50% 10
South East -38 24 £463 - 7
Scotland 0 23 £456 +1.39% 5
London -86 22 £580 +13.73% 7
South West -32 17 £498 -13.48% 2
North of England -77 9 £626 +27.24% 8
West Midlands -58 7 £340 -12.82%
Midlands -66 7 £340 -12.82% 1
North West -46 5 £626 +15.39% 5
Yorkshire -56 3 - - 2
East of England -28 2 £563 -6.25%
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 (1.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.81%) Azure
2 16 (14.16%) AWS
3 6 (5.31%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (2.65%) Catchpoint
4 3 (2.65%) GCP
4 3 (2.65%) IaaS
4 3 (2.65%) PaaS
4 3 (2.65%) SaaS
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.88%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.88%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (61.06%) Firewall
2 52 (46.02%) WAN
3 45 (39.82%) BGP
3 45 (39.82%) LAN
4 39 (34.51%) OSPF
5 38 (33.63%) VPN
6 35 (30.97%) SD-WAN
7 31 (27.43%) Network Security
8 28 (24.78%) VXLAN
9 27 (23.89%) MPLS
10 26 (23.01%) VLAN
11 22 (19.47%) IPsec
12 21 (18.58%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (17.70%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (16.81%) Wireless
15 17 (15.04%) DNS
15 17 (15.04%) NX-OS
16 15 (13.27%) BIG-IP
16 15 (13.27%) Wireshark
17 14 (12.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.96%) Legal
3 7 (6.19%) Finance
3 7 (6.19%) Law
3 7 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.42%) Retail
6 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Billing
7 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (67.26%) Network Engineer
2 15 (13.27%) Architect
3 11 (9.73%) Network Architect
4 8 (7.08%) Lead
4 8 (7.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) IP Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) IP Network Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Security Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Senior
6 5 (4.42%) Design Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Core Network Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Lead Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) LDAP
1 7 (6.19%) SAML
2 6 (5.31%) 802.1X
3 4 (3.54%) REST
4 2 (1.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (47.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.19%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.31%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.54%) PKI
5 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.65%) Celerra
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.65%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.65%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.65%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.65%) IBM XIV
6 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.65%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.65%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Windows
2 17 (15.04%) Linux
3 3 (2.65%) CatOS
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Network Monitoring
2 22 (19.47%) Change Management
2 22 (19.47%) ITIL
3 21 (18.58%) Roadmaps
4 20 (17.70%) Load Balancing
5 18 (15.93%) Migration
6 15 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (13.27%) Network Management
7 13 (11.50%) High Availability
7 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
8 12 (10.62%) Network Architecture
8 12 (10.62%) Project Delivery
8 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (7.08%) Agile
10 8 (7.08%) ITSM
10 8 (7.08%) Network Design
10 8 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.62%) Python
2 2 (1.77%) ActionScript
2 2 (1.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 39 (34.51%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (27.43%) CCNP
2 31 (27.43%) Security Cleared
3 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
4 16 (14.16%) DV Cleared
5 11 (9.73%) CCNA
6 8 (7.08%) Degree
7 7 (6.19%) CCIE
8 5 (4.42%) CCSE
8 5 (4.42%) CCSM
9 4 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.77%) CCIP
10 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.77%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.77%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.88%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (5.31%) NCSC
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) SLA
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.77%) NIST
3 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (17.70%) VMware NSX
3 12 (10.62%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (9.73%) Active Directory
5 8 (7.08%) vSphere
6 6 (5.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.54%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.65%) Firmware
8 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.77%) vCloud
10 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (12.39%) Ansible
2 7 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.31%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (5.31%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.31%) Terraform
4 5 (4.42%) Avamar
5 3 (2.65%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.88%) CASB
7 1 (0.88%) Grafana
7 1 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.88%) SCOM
7 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 113 (100.00%) Cisco
2 57 (50.44%) Palo Alto
3 51 (45.13%) F5
4 39 (34.51%) VMware
5 24 (21.24%) Fortinet
6 22 (19.47%) SolarWinds
7 18 (15.93%) CheckPoint
8 17 (15.04%) Juniper
9 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
10 13 (11.50%) Aruba
11 8 (7.08%) Arista
12 5 (4.42%) Meraki
12 5 (4.42%) NetApp
13 4 (3.54%) HP
13 4 (3.54%) IBM
13 4 (3.54%) NetScout
13 4 (3.54%) Veeam
14 3 (2.65%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.65%) Brocade
14 3 (2.65%) EMC