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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 436 431
Rank change year-on-year -52 -5 +161
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 91 111 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.30% 2.53% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 93
10th Percentile £356 £364 £325
25th Percentile £413 £424 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £550
90th Percentile £575 £670 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
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 3,955 4,392 6,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 12.26% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,533 3,873
10th Percentile £205 £220 £212
25th Percentile £350 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 167 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.06 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.26 £22.75 £22.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +26.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.53% -15.91% +25.53%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -48 74 £450 -14.29% 13
London +7 54 £450 -14.29% 3
UK excluding London -63 31 £425 -15.00% 11
Work from Home -12 19 £463 -6.19% 8
Scotland +9 11 £425 +9.68% 1
North of England -54 9 £470 +17.44% 1
South East -21 5 £520 +4.00% 3
Yorkshire -29 5 £490 +78.00%
North West -35 4 £335 -39.09% 1
Midlands -28 3 £255 -49.00% 1
West Midlands -29 3 £255 -49.00% 1
East of England -21 2 - - 2
South West +1 1 £500 - 4

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 1 (1.10%) CICS
1 1 (1.10%) Confluence
1 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 8 (8.79%) Akamai
2 8 (8.79%) AWS
3 4 (4.40%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) OCI
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.10%) GitHub
5 1 (1.10%) IaaS
5 1 (1.10%) PaaS
5 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (80.22%) Firewall
2 46 (50.55%) SD-WAN
3 45 (49.45%) LAN
4 42 (46.15%) WAN
5 41 (45.05%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (28.57%) BGP
7 24 (26.37%) OSPF
8 20 (21.98%) VPN
9 17 (18.68%) Cisco ISE
10 15 (16.48%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (14.29%) Wireless
12 11 (12.09%) Network Security
13 10 (10.99%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (10.99%) EIGRP
14 9 (9.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 8 (8.79%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (8.79%) SNMP
16 7 (7.69%) MPLS
16 7 (7.69%) Wireshark
17 6 (6.59%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.10%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 12 (13.19%) Telecoms
2 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Finance
6 3 (3.30%) Retail
7 2 (2.20%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (56.04%) Network Engineer
2 25 (27.47%) Architect
3 20 (21.98%) Network Architect
4 11 (12.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Network Design Architect
6 9 (9.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Senior
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Designer
8 5 (5.49%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Network Designer
8 5 (5.49%) Network Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Network Design Specialist
10 3 (3.30%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.20%) REST
2 2 (2.20%) VML
3 1 (1.10%) LDAP
3 1 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (47.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.30%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.10%) Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.10%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) MVS
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Solaris
3 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.98%) Network Design
2 12 (13.19%) High Availability
3 10 (10.99%) Load Balancing
3 10 (10.99%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (9.89%) Project Delivery
5 8 (8.79%) Migration
5 8 (8.79%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.59%) Configuration Management
7 6 (6.59%) Data Protection
7 6 (6.59%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (5.49%) Analytics
8 5 (5.49%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (4.40%) Change Management
9 4 (4.40%) DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) Network Architecture
9 4 (4.40%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (4.40%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (3.30%) Low Latency
10 3 (3.30%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) Python
2 1 (1.10%) Java
2 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.16%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (31.87%) Security Cleared
3 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
4 23 (25.27%) CCNP
5 9 (9.89%) CCIE
6 6 (6.59%) CCNA
7 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.20%) Degree
9 1 (1.10%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.10%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.10%) CCSA
9 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.30%) KVM
2 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) Firmware
4 1 (1.10%) NFS
4 1 (1.10%) SRDF
4 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Ansible
2 11 (12.09%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.49%) Terraform
4 3 (3.30%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.20%) OpenView
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (40.66%) Fortinet
3 27 (29.67%) F5
4 22 (24.18%) Palo Alto
5 19 (20.88%) SolarWinds
6 13 (14.29%) Juniper
7 12 (13.19%) Meraki
8 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
9 7 (7.69%) VMware
10 6 (6.59%) CheckPoint
10 6 (6.59%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (5.49%) Aruba
12 3 (3.30%) Arista
12 3 (3.30%) NetScout
13 2 (2.20%) EMC
13 2 (2.20%) NetApp
13 2 (2.20%) Qualys
14 1 (1.10%) Commvault
14 1 (1.10%) IBM
14 1 (1.10%) Oracle