Cisco Nexus Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Nexus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Nexus over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Cisco Nexus UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	374	375	418
Rank change year-on-year	+1	+43
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus	234	289	240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.51%	0.54%	0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.73%	3.33%	2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	158	178	140
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£400
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£325	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£526	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£395	£388	£350
% change year-on-year	+1.93%	+10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	1	3
Median hourly rate	£27.38	£42.50	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-35.57%	+6.25%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.38	-	£40.00

Cisco Nexus is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	6274	8675	8108
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.56%	16.13%	14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	3717	5255	4568
Median daily rate	£400	£390	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.56%	+8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£212	£240	£213
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£368	£345
% change year-on-year	+2.04%	+6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	391	426	478
Median hourly rate	£27.50	£29.00	£23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-5.17%	+23.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.05	£13.00	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£28.00	£32.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-13.84%	+30.00%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-2	228	£408	+1.87%	36
London	+25	82	£450	-	12
South East	+2	67	£408	+1.87%	3
South West	+5	30	£370	-1.33%
Hampshire	+29	28	£450	+25.00%	1
City of London	0	20	£356	-28.75%	1
North West	+25	14	£376	-5.93%	5
Yorkshire	+11	14	£430	-3.09%	5
West Yorkshire	+21	13	£430	-8.26%	5
Bristol	-1	13	£370	+2.77%
Berkshire	-14	13	£486	+8.05%	1
Leeds	+18	12	£430	-8.26%	1
West Midlands	+1	11	£425	+13.33%	6
Manchester	+17	10	£382	+118.42%	1
West Sussex	+21	7	£395	+12.85%
Kent	+4	7	£210	-35.38%
Buckinghamshire	-20	7	£369	-13.23%	1
Dorset	+5	6	£450	+12.50%
East of England	-10	6	£400	-5.88%	4
Milton Keynes	-13	6	£363	-14.70%
East Midlands	-8	5	£375	+29.31%
Southampton	-	5	£375	-
Crawley	-	5	£395	-
Cheshire	+27	4	£356	-16.17%	1
Wiltshire	+4	4	£325	-
Windsor	-3	4	£575	+15.00%
Bedfordshire	-9	4	£415	+29.68%	3
Chester	-	4	£356	-
Winchester	-	4	£400	-
Swindon	-	4	£325	-

Cisco Nexus
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Cisco Nexus also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Cisco Nexus.

1	491 (98.99%)	Cisco
2	291 (58.67%)	Cisco Certification
3	276 (55.65%)	Firewall
4	216 (43.55%)	CCNP
5	189 (38.10%)	Data Centre
6	176 (35.48%)	Cisco ASA
7	149 (30.04%)	BGP
8	143 (28.83%)	F5
9	140 (28.23%)	Wireless
10	134 (27.02%)	WAN
11	131 (26.41%)	CheckPoint
12	128 (25.81%)	OSPF
13	124 (25.00%)	LAN
14	119 (23.99%)	MPLS
15	109 (21.98%)	Security Cleared

16	106 (21.37%)	CCNA
17	101 (20.36%)	VPN
18	98 (19.76%)	CCIE
19	91 (18.35%)	Juniper
20	88 (17.74%)	EIGRP
20	88 (17.74%)	ITIL
20	88 (17.74%)	SC Cleared
21	82 (16.53%)	VMware
22	78 (15.73%)	Palo Alto
23	68 (13.71%)	Load Balancing
23	68 (13.71%)	Cisco IOS
24	59 (11.90%)	Finance
25	58 (11.69%)	DNS
25	58 (11.69%)	Cisco Wireless
26	55 (11.09%)	SolarWinds

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	8 (1.61%)	Skype for Business
2	6 (1.21%)	Confluence
3	4 (0.81%)	ArcGIS
3	4 (0.81%)	SAS
4	3 (0.60%)	SharePoint
5	2 (0.40%)	Apache
5	2 (0.40%)	Tomcat
6	1 (0.20%)	CMS
6	1 (0.20%)	MS Exchange
6	1 (0.20%)	OpenStack
6	1 (0.20%)	SharePoint Server
6	1 (0.20%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	16 (3.23%)	Microsoft Excel
2	10 (2.02%)	MS Visio
3	8 (1.61%)	Microsoft Office
4	1 (0.20%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	8 (1.61%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.20%)	NetSuite
2	1 (0.20%)	Odoo
2	1 (0.20%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	16 (3.23%)	Amazon AWS
2	11 (2.22%)	IaaS
3	7 (1.41%)	PaaS
4	5 (1.01%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	3 (0.60%)	Cloud Computing
5	3 (0.60%)	SaaS
6	2 (0.40%)	G Suite
6	2 (0.40%)	Microsoft Azure
7	1 (0.20%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	276 (55.65%)	Firewall
2	176 (35.48%)	Cisco ASA
3	149 (30.04%)	BGP
4	140 (28.23%)	Wireless
5	134 (27.02%)	WAN
6	128 (25.81%)	OSPF
7	124 (25.00%)	LAN
8	119 (23.99%)	MPLS
9	101 (20.36%)	VPN
10	88 (17.74%)	EIGRP
11	68 (13.71%)	Cisco IOS
12	58 (11.69%)	Cisco Wireless
12	58 (11.69%)	DNS
13	47 (9.48%)	Network Security
14	45 (9.07%)	DHCP
14	45 (9.07%)	TCP/IP
15	44 (8.87%)	Wi-Fi
16	41 (8.27%)	IPsec
17	38 (7.66%)	WLAN
18	37 (7.46%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	9 (1.81%)	SQL Server
2	6 (1.21%)	Oracle Database
2	6 (1.21%)	Oracle Database 11g
2	6 (1.21%)	PostgreSQL
2	6 (1.21%)	SQL Server 2012
3	2 (0.40%)	MySQL

Development Applications
1	25 (5.04%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	16 (3.23%)	Sonatype Nexus
3	9 (1.81%)	Vagrant
4	6 (1.21%)	Git (software)
4	6 (1.21%)	Jenkins
4	6 (1.21%)	JIRA
5	1 (0.20%)	Subversion

General
1	59 (11.90%)	Finance
2	37 (7.46%)	Telecoms
3	23 (4.64%)	Banking
4	8 (1.61%)	Electronics
4	8 (1.61%)	Manufacturing
4	8 (1.61%)	Marketing
4	8 (1.61%)	Retail
5	7 (1.41%)	Law
6	5 (1.01%)	Investment Banking
6	5 (1.01%)	Multimedia
7	2 (0.40%)	Billing
7	2 (0.40%)	Local Government
8	1 (0.20%)	Aerospace
8	1 (0.20%)	Back Office
8	1 (0.20%)	Corporate Banking
8	1 (0.20%)	French Language
8	1 (0.20%)	German Language
8	1 (0.20%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	265 (53.43%)	Network Engineer
2	124 (25.00%)	Cisco Engineer
3	107 (21.57%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	68 (13.71%)	Architect
5	40 (8.06%)	Consultant
6	34 (6.85%)	Senior Network Engineer
7	29 (5.85%)	Support Engineer
8	26 (5.24%)	Infrastructure Engineer
8	26 (5.24%)	Network Architect
8	26 (5.24%)	Network Security Engineer
8	26 (5.24%)	Network Support
8	26 (5.24%)	SC Cleared Network Engineer
8	26 (5.24%)	Security Engineer
9	22 (4.44%)	Network Support Engineer
10	20 (4.03%)	Network Consultant
11	19 (3.83%)	Analyst
12	17 (3.43%)	Network Analyst
13	16 (3.23%)	Enterprise Architect
14	15 (3.02%)	Cisco Support
15	14 (2.82%)	Data Centre Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	29 (5.85%)	802.1X
2	6 (1.21%)	Software Packaging
3	3 (0.60%)	CSS
3	3 (0.60%)	Middleware
3	3 (0.60%)	Web Services
3	3 (0.60%)	XMPP
4	2 (0.40%)	RFC 2544
5	1 (0.20%)	CGI
5	1 (0.20%)	COM
5	1 (0.20%)	SAP Basis

Miscellaneous
1	189 (38.10%)	Data Centre
2	29 (5.85%)	Analytical Skills
3	19 (3.83%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
4	17 (3.43%)	EMC VNX
4	17 (3.43%)	Video Conferencing
5	12 (2.42%)	BYOD
6	11 (2.22%)	Management Information System
7	10 (2.02%)	Fat Client
7	10 (2.02%)	Thin Client
8	9 (1.81%)	EMC VMAX
8	9 (1.81%)	FlexPod
8	9 (1.81%)	VxBlock/Vblock
9	8 (1.61%)	Clustering
10	6 (1.21%)	BBC
11	5 (1.01%)	NHS
11	5 (1.01%)	PKI
12	4 (0.81%)	Driving Licence
13	3 (0.60%)	FMCG
13	3 (0.60%)	Hybrid Cloud
13	3 (0.60%)	Smart Meter

Operating Systems
1	46 (9.27%)	Linux
2	35 (7.06%)	Windows
3	20 (4.03%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	13 (2.62%)	Unix
5	10 (2.02%)	CentOS
5	10 (2.02%)	Windows Server
6	8 (1.61%)	Windows Server 2012
7	5 (1.01%)	Solaris
8	4 (0.81%)	Data ONTAP
9	3 (0.60%)	Windows 10
10	2 (0.40%)	CatOS
10	2 (0.40%)	Windows Server 2008
11	1 (0.20%)	Android

Processes & Methodologies
1	88 (17.74%)	ITIL
2	68 (13.71%)	Load Balancing
3	51 (10.28%)	Network Design
4	49 (9.88%)	High Availability
5	47 (9.48%)	Migration
6	41 (8.27%)	Network Management
7	37 (7.46%)	Service Management
8	35 (7.06%)	Agile Software Development
9	31 (6.25%)	Converged Infrastructure
10	28 (5.65%)	Service Design
11	27 (5.44%)	Scrum
12	26 (5.24%)	DevOps
13	23 (4.64%)	Change Management
14	21 (4.23%)	Service Delivery
15	20 (4.03%)	Network Architecture
16	19 (3.83%)	Mentoring
17	17 (3.43%)	ITIL V3
18	15 (3.02%)	Problem Management
19	13 (2.62%)	Integration Testing
19	13 (2.62%)	Programme Management

Programming Languages
1	17 (3.43%)	Python
2	15 (3.02%)	Perl
3	7 (1.41%)	PowerShell
4	6 (1.21%)	C
4	6 (1.21%)	C#
5	4 (0.81%)	Lisp
5	4 (0.81%)	SQL
6	3 (0.60%)	Bash Shell
7	2 (0.40%)	Java
8	1 (0.20%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	291 (58.67%)	Cisco Certification
2	216 (43.55%)	CCNP
3	109 (21.98%)	Security Cleared
4	106 (21.37%)	CCNA
5	98 (19.76%)	CCIE
6	88 (17.74%)	SC Cleared
7	19 (3.83%)	DV Cleared
8	16 (3.23%)	CCDP
9	15 (3.02%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	13 (2.62%)	Degree
11	10 (2.02%)	CCIE Routing and Switching
11	10 (2.02%)	JNCIA
12	9 (1.81%)	Microsoft Certification
13	8 (1.61%)	CCSP
14	6 (1.21%)	ITIL Certification
14	6 (1.21%)	MCP
15	5 (1.01%)	CCIE Service Provider
16	4 (0.81%)	CCIE Security
16	4 (0.81%)	Master's Degree
16	4 (0.81%)	RHCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	22 (4.44%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	16 (3.23%)	SLA
3	14 (2.82%)	ISO/IEC 15288
4	13 (2.62%)	GPG13
5	9 (1.81%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.40%)	QA
7	1 (0.20%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.20%)	ISO/IEC 20000

System Software
1	38 (7.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	23 (4.64%)	vCloud
3	20 (4.03%)	vSphere
4	11 (2.22%)	Active Directory
5	10 (2.02%)	Hyper-V
5	10 (2.02%)	Microsoft App-V
5	10 (2.02%)	XenApp
5	10 (2.02%)	XenDesktop
6	9 (1.81%)	ProxySG
6	9 (1.81%)	VMware ESXi
7	3 (0.60%)	SRDF
8	2 (0.40%)	EMC RecoverPoint
8	2 (0.40%)	Firmware
8	2 (0.40%)	NFS
8	2 (0.40%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	48 (9.68%)	Cisco Prime
2	33 (6.65%)	FortiGate
3	15 (3.02%)	Puppet
4	14 (2.82%)	Nagios
5	13 (2.62%)	vRealize
6	11 (2.22%)	Cacti
6	11 (2.22%)	Cisco CUCM
7	10 (2.02%)	AppDNA
8	9 (1.81%)	Opscode Chef
9	8 (1.61%)	ZABBIX
10	7 (1.41%)	EMC NetWorker
10	7 (1.41%)	Forum Sentry
10	7 (1.41%)	PowerCLI
10	7 (1.41%)	vCenter Server
11	6 (1.21%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	6 (1.21%)	QRadar
11	6 (1.21%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
12	5 (1.01%)	EnCase
12	5 (1.01%)	NetBackup
12	5 (1.01%)	OpenView

Vendors
1	491 (98.99%)	Cisco
2	143 (28.83%)	F5
3	131 (26.41%)	CheckPoint
4	91 (18.35%)	Juniper
5	82 (16.53%)	VMware
6	78 (15.73%)	Palo Alto
7	55 (11.09%)	SolarWinds
8	50 (10.08%)	Microsoft
9	38 (7.66%)	Fortinet
10	37 (7.46%)	Citrix
11	35 (7.06%)	HP
12	34 (6.85%)	Riverbed
13	27 (5.44%)	Blue Coat
14	24 (4.84%)	EMC
15	23 (4.64%)	Nokia
16	17 (3.43%)	Red Hat
17	16 (3.23%)	NetApp
18	15 (3.02%)	Arista
18	15 (3.02%)	Brocade
19	13 (2.62%)	ArcSight