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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 431 416
Rank change year-on-year -92 -15 +168
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 67 101 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.66% 2.50% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 107
10th Percentile £303 £363 £321
25th Percentile £339 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £434
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +20.47% -15.38%
75th Percentile £481 £593 £550
90th Percentile £525 £675 £633
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 8
10th Percentile - - £63.74
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.44
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 4,031 4,047 6,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.49% 13.03% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,663 2,353 3,725
10th Percentile £204 £213 £206
25th Percentile £356 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -4.37%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 138 408
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -32.50% +142.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.13 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.44% -43.49% +177.08%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -110 44 £350 -33.33% 19
UK excluding London -71 42 £425 -15.00% 14
Work from Home -31 26 £475 -5.00% 10
London -43 20 £500 -4.76% 7
Scotland +20 19 £425 +6.25% 2
North of England -62 7 £335 -36.19% 1
South East -40 6 £323 -38.57% 4
West Midlands -35 5 £308 -38.50% 1
North West -40 5 £335 -39.09% 1
Midlands -47 5 £308 -38.50% 1
South West -18 3 £400 -20.00% 3
East of England -21 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -56 2 - -

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:

Applications
1 9 (13.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.94%) Azure
2 5 (7.46%) AWS
3 3 (4.48%) Catchpoint
3 3 (4.48%) IaaS
3 3 (4.48%) PaaS
3 3 (4.48%) SaaS
3 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) OCI
5 1 (1.49%) Akamai
5 1 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 49 (73.13%) Firewall
2 40 (59.70%) WAN
3 31 (46.27%) BGP
4 29 (43.28%) LAN
5 28 (41.79%) VPN
6 26 (38.81%) OSPF
7 22 (32.84%) SD-WAN
8 21 (31.34%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (29.85%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (25.37%) Wireless
11 15 (22.39%) Network Security
12 12 (17.91%) EIGRP
13 10 (14.93%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (14.93%) IPsec
14 9 (13.43%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (13.43%) Cisco IOS
14 9 (13.43%) MPLS
15 8 (11.94%) DNS
15 8 (11.94%) VXLAN
15 8 (11.94%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.46%) Law
3 5 (7.46%) Legal
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Retail
5 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (82.09%) Network Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Field Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Network Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Network Field Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Secure Network Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) Architect
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco Project Manager
8 1 (1.49%) Junior
8 1 (1.49%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.49%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.49%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) LDAP
1 6 (8.96%) SAML
2 5 (7.46%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.97%) VML
4 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (52.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.94%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.49%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.49%) iSeries
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) CatOS
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.39%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.93%) Project Delivery
3 9 (13.43%) High Availability
3 9 (13.43%) Migration
4 8 (11.94%) Load Balancing
5 7 (10.45%) Change Management
5 7 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (10.45%) Network Design
6 6 (8.96%) ITIL
6 6 (8.96%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (7.46%) Agile
7 5 (7.46%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.46%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (7.46%) Network Architecture
7 5 (7.46%) Network Management
7 5 (7.46%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (5.97%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (5.97%) Problem Management
8 4 (5.97%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (40.30%) CCNP
3 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
4 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
5 11 (16.42%) CCIE
6 6 (8.96%) CCNA
7 4 (5.97%) Degree
8 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.99%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.99%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.49%) CCSA
10 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) VMware NSX
2 13 (19.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.48%) vSphere
5 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.99%) KVM
5 2 (2.99%) vCloud
6 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Ansible
2 6 (8.96%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (7.46%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (7.46%) Terraform
4 4 (5.97%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 67 (100.00%) Cisco
2 34 (50.75%) Palo Alto
3 20 (29.85%) F5
4 15 (22.39%) Meraki
4 15 (22.39%) VMware
5 14 (20.90%) CheckPoint
6 13 (19.40%) SolarWinds
7 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
8 10 (14.93%) Aruba
9 9 (13.43%) Fortinet
10 8 (11.94%) Arista
10 8 (11.94%) Juniper
11 2 (2.99%) AppNeta
11 2 (2.99%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (1.49%) EMC
12 1 (1.49%) Forcepoint
12 1 (1.49%) McAfee
12 1 (1.49%) NVIDIA
12 1 (1.49%) Sophos