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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 437 445
Rank change year-on-year -115 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 115 118 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 3.06% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 76 86
10th Percentile £390 £400 £331
25th Percentile £425 £424 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -3.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £536 £550
90th Percentile £675 £592 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% +13.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £28.30 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.75 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £41.69 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £60.93 £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 3,853 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.45% 11.77% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,359 2,742
10th Percentile £250 £238 £230
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +2.35% -6.20% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 201 288
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.81 £42.50 £55.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% -23.76% -1.32%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -132 93 £500 +1.63% 62
UK excluding London -60 78 £500 +1.63% 27
Work from Home -44 27 £463 -2.63% 28
London -120 26 £513 +7.89% 39
North of England -61 20 £500 +1.63% 5
South West -26 19 £513 -10.87% 5
South East -50 17 £463 -11.06% 9
Scotland -11 16 £425 -5.56% 1
Yorkshire -32 14 £500 +1.63% 3
West Midlands -52 5 £375 -28.57% 3
North West -53 5 £563 +14.31% 2
Midlands -58 5 £375 -28.57% 3
East of England -22 1 - - 5
North East - 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 (1.74%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.74%) Azure
2 15 (13.04%) AWS
3 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.74%) GCP
5 2 (1.74%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.87%) GitHub
6 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.87%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.87%) OCI
6 1 (0.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (60.00%) Firewall
2 54 (46.96%) BGP
2 54 (46.96%) WAN
3 50 (43.48%) LAN
4 45 (39.13%) OSPF
5 42 (36.52%) VPN
6 35 (30.43%) Network Security
6 35 (30.43%) VLAN
7 30 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
8 28 (24.35%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (23.48%) VXLAN
10 26 (22.61%) DNS
10 26 (22.61%) SD-WAN
10 26 (22.61%) Wireless
11 25 (21.74%) MPLS
12 22 (19.13%) Cisco Firepower
13 21 (18.26%) IPsec
14 19 (16.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 18 (15.65%) TCP/IP
16 15 (13.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.87%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) GitLab
2 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.09%) Manufacturing
4 7 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 6 (5.22%) Legal
5 6 (5.22%) Police
5 6 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (60.87%) Network Engineer
2 23 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (14.78%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (12.17%) Architect
5 10 (8.70%) Network Architect
6 8 (6.96%) Lead
7 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.48%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.61%) Consultant
10 3 (2.61%) Network Consultant
10 3 (2.61%) Network Designer
10 3 (2.61%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.35%) REST
3 4 (3.48%) LDAP
3 4 (3.48%) SAML
3 4 (3.48%) Terraform
4 3 (2.61%) YAML
5 2 (1.74%) Middleware
6 1 (0.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (46.09%) Data Centre
2 13 (11.30%) PKI
3 8 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.09%) Private Cloud
5 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.61%) Celerra
7 3 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.61%) EMC Centera
7 3 (2.61%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (2.61%) EMC VNX
7 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.61%) IBM XIV
7 3 (2.61%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.61%) Symmetrix
7 3 (2.61%) Symmetrix DMX
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.26%) Windows
2 15 (13.04%) Linux
3 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.87%) CatOS
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.52%) Load Balancing
1 19 (16.52%) Network Monitoring
2 18 (15.65%) ITIL
2 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (15.65%) Roadmaps
3 17 (14.78%) Migration
4 16 (13.91%) High Availability
5 15 (13.04%) Change Management
5 15 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
6 14 (12.17%) Project Delivery
7 13 (11.30%) Network Management
7 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (9.57%) Network Architecture
10 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (6.96%) ITSM
12 8 (6.96%) Network Segmentation
12 8 (6.96%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.96%) Python
2 3 (2.61%) Bash
3 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (37.39%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (29.57%) CCNP
3 30 (26.09%) Security Cleared
4 18 (15.65%) SC Cleared
5 14 (12.17%) DV Cleared
6 10 (8.70%) CCNA
7 8 (6.96%) CCIE
7 8 (6.96%) Degree
8 5 (4.35%) CCSE
8 5 (4.35%) CCSM
9 4 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.87%) CCNA CyberOps
12 1 (0.87%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.87%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (4.35%) NCSC
1 5 (4.35%) QA
1 5 (4.35%) SLA
2 2 (1.74%) GDPR
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
2 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (16.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (11.30%) VMware NSX
3 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.96%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.48%) vSphere
7 3 (2.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.61%) Firmware
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.87%) Docker
9 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (8.70%) FortiGate
2 8 (6.96%) Ansible
3 5 (4.35%) Avamar
4 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (2.61%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.87%) SCCM
6 1 (0.87%) SCOM
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Cisco
2 52 (45.22%) F5
3 47 (40.87%) Palo Alto
4 31 (26.96%) VMware
5 23 (20.00%) CheckPoint
6 22 (19.13%) SolarWinds
7 21 (18.26%) Fortinet
8 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
9 12 (10.43%) Aruba
10 7 (6.09%) Arista
10 7 (6.09%) NetApp
11 6 (5.22%) Juniper
12 5 (4.35%) IBM
12 5 (4.35%) Meraki
13 4 (3.48%) Riverbed
14 3 (2.61%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.61%) Brocade
14 3 (2.61%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.61%) NetScout
14 3 (2.61%) Veeam