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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 420 421
Rank change year-on-year -122 +1 +135
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 83 98 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 2.60% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 60 95
10th Percentile £303 £374 £300
25th Percentile £398 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £599 £519
90th Percentile £587 £675 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £396
% change year-on-year -15.00% +26.26% -20.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.61%

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 4,476 3,766 5,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 12.95% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,336 3,544
10th Percentile £225 £213 £205
25th Percentile £380 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +2.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 149 405
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £13.64
25th Percentile £19.59 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.10 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.20 £75.00 £67.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £29.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.21% -32.56% +132.43%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -123 55 £463 -11.90% 23
UK excluding London -103 50 £425 -15.00% 21
Work from Home -50 32 £463 -7.50% 6
London -74 23 £540 +2.86% 4
Scotland +18 19 £425 -2.86% 2
South East -50 11 £463 -22.76% 4
South West -33 7 £500 -13.04% 2
West Midlands -59 7 £308 +66.22% 1
Midlands -61 7 £308 +66.22% 1
North of England -75 5 - - 9
North West -53 3 - - 6
Yorkshire -62 2 - - 2
East of England -36 1 £563 -6.25% 5

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 10 (12.05%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) Azure
2 10 (12.05%) AWS
3 4 (4.82%) IaaS
3 4 (4.82%) PaaS
3 4 (4.82%) SaaS
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.61%) Catchpoint
4 3 (3.61%) GCP
4 3 (3.61%) OCI
4 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (69.88%) Firewall
2 41 (49.40%) WAN
3 35 (42.17%) BGP
3 35 (42.17%) VPN
4 31 (37.35%) LAN
4 31 (37.35%) OSPF
5 23 (27.71%) SD-WAN
6 22 (26.51%) Cisco ASA
6 22 (26.51%) Network Security
7 17 (20.48%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (20.48%) Wireless
8 16 (19.28%) IPsec
8 16 (19.28%) MPLS
9 13 (15.66%) Cisco IOS
9 13 (15.66%) VXLAN
10 12 (14.46%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (14.46%) NX-OS
10 12 (14.46%) Wireshark
11 11 (13.25%) EIGRP
12 10 (12.05%) DNS
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.20%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.43%) Law
3 7 (8.43%) Legal
4 6 (7.23%) Retail
5 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Finance
6 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Police
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (79.52%) Network Engineer
2 9 (10.84%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (6.02%) Architect
4 5 (6.02%) Senior
5 4 (4.82%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Design Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) IP Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Network Architect
5 4 (4.82%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) IP Design Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Secure Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) LDAP
1 7 (8.43%) SAML
2 4 (4.82%) VML
3 3 (3.61%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.61%) REST
4 2 (2.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (43.37%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.43%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Celerra
6 2 (2.41%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.41%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (2.41%) EMC VNX
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.41%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) iSeries
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Windows
2 8 (9.64%) Linux
3 4 (4.82%) CatOS
4 1 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.20%) VMS
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.07%) Change Management
1 15 (18.07%) Migration
1 15 (18.07%) Network Monitoring
2 14 (16.87%) Load Balancing
3 11 (13.25%) High Availability
3 11 (13.25%) ITIL
4 9 (10.84%) Network Management
4 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (9.64%) Roadmaps
6 7 (8.43%) Network Design
7 6 (7.23%) Configuration Management
7 6 (7.23%) Problem Management
7 6 (7.23%) Security Management
8 5 (6.02%) Agile
8 5 (6.02%) Data Protection
8 5 (6.02%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (6.02%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.02%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (4.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.84%) Python
2 2 (2.41%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (28.92%) CCNP
3 22 (26.51%) Security Cleared
4 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.84%) CCIE
6 7 (8.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.82%) CCNA
8 3 (3.61%) Degree
9 2 (2.41%) CCIP
9 2 (2.41%) CCSE
9 2 (2.41%) CCSM
9 2 (2.41%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.41%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.20%) CCDA
10 1 (1.20%) CCDP
10 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.41%) QA
1 2 (2.41%) SLA
2 1 (1.20%) NCSC
2 1 (1.20%) NIST
2 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.66%) VMware NSX
3 10 (12.05%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.82%) vSphere
6 2 (2.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.41%) Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) vCloud
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (15.66%) Ansible
2 7 (8.43%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (7.23%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (6.02%) Terraform
5 2 (2.41%) Avamar
5 2 (2.41%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (1.20%) CASB
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.20%) Grafana
6 1 (1.20%) Nessus
6 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (50.60%) Palo Alto
3 31 (37.35%) F5
4 22 (26.51%) VMware
5 21 (25.30%) CheckPoint
6 15 (18.07%) Fortinet
6 15 (18.07%) Juniper
7 13 (15.66%) SolarWinds
8 12 (14.46%) Meraki
8 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
9 11 (13.25%) Aruba
10 7 (8.43%) Arista
11 3 (3.61%) NetApp
11 3 (3.61%) NetScout
11 3 (3.61%) Veeam
12 2 (2.41%) Brocade
12 2 (2.41%) EMC
12 2 (2.41%) HP
12 2 (2.41%) IBM
12 2 (2.41%) Infoblox