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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 404 442
Rank change year-on-year -142 +38 +50
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 110 141 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.21% 3.57% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 90 80
10th Percentile £400 £400 £300
25th Percentile £418 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £491 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +1.97% +6.94%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £496 £450
% change year-on-year -0.20% +10.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £28.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile - £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 4,979 3,947 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 12.03% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,971 2,411 2,952
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 196 342
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £18.01
Median hourly rate £26.29 £48.75 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +7.28% -9.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.50 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £44.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -39.41% -14.56% -10.30%

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 30 July 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 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 30 July 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 -152 85 £500 - 16
UK excluding London -80 77 £495 -0.20% 12
Work from Home -56 30 £463 -7.50% 2
London -112 24 £525 +10.53% 5
South East -56 20 £463 -9.31% 2
Scotland -6 19 £425 -5.56%
South West -35 17 £498 -13.48% 1
North of England -73 14 £500 +1.88% 6
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 +2.15% 6
North West -51 5 £563 +5.23%
Midlands -64 5 £413 -21.43% 2
West Midlands -67 5 £413 -21.43% 1
East of England -14 2 £563 -6.25%
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 (1.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.82%) Azure
2 17 (15.45%) AWS
3 6 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.73%) GCP
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.82%) OCI
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.91%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.91%) IaaS
7 1 (0.91%) IBM Watson
7 1 (0.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 67 (60.91%) Firewall
2 52 (47.27%) WAN
3 50 (45.45%) BGP
4 47 (42.73%) LAN
5 46 (41.82%) OSPF
6 42 (38.18%) VPN
7 33 (30.00%) VLAN
8 32 (29.09%) SD-WAN
9 31 (28.18%) Network Security
10 29 (26.36%) MPLS
11 27 (24.55%) VXLAN
12 25 (22.73%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (21.82%) IPsec
13 24 (21.82%) Wireless
14 23 (20.91%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (18.18%) DNS
16 18 (16.36%) Cisco Firepower
16 18 (16.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (13.64%) TCP/IP
18 14 (12.73%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.82%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (6.36%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.45%) Finance
5 6 (5.45%) Legal
5 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Police
6 5 (4.55%) Retail
7 4 (3.64%) Law
8 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (66.36%) Network Engineer
2 15 (13.64%) Architect
3 12 (10.91%) Senior
4 11 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 11 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Lead
6 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) IP Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) IP Network Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Design Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) IP Design Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.55%) REST
3 4 (3.64%) LDAP
3 4 (3.64%) SAML
4 2 (1.82%) Middleware
5 1 (0.91%) JSON
5 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (44.55%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (8.18%) PKI
3 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.45%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Celerra
6 3 (2.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.73%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.73%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.73%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.73%) IBM XIV
6 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.73%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.73%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.73%) Windows
2 18 (16.36%) Linux
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) CatOS
4 1 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.91%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) VMS
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 21 (19.09%) Roadmaps
3 20 (18.18%) Change Management
3 20 (18.18%) ITIL
3 20 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
4 18 (16.36%) Migration
5 17 (15.45%) Network Management
6 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.64%) High Availability
8 14 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 13 (11.82%) Mentoring
10 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.00%) Network Architecture
12 10 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (7.27%) ITSM
14 8 (7.27%) Network Design
14 8 (7.27%) Zero Trust
15 7 (6.36%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (2.73%) Bash
3 2 (1.82%) ActionScript
4 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (37.27%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (30.00%) CCNP
3 31 (28.18%) Security Cleared
4 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 14 (12.73%) DV Cleared
6 11 (10.00%) CCNA
7 8 (7.27%) Degree
8 7 (6.36%) CCIE
9 5 (4.55%) CCSE
9 5 (4.55%) CCSM
10 4 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.82%) CCIP
12 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.91%) CCDA
13 1 (0.91%) CCDP
13 1 (0.91%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (5.45%) NCSC
1 6 (5.45%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) SLA
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (11.82%) VMware NSX
3 12 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.27%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.55%) vSphere
7 4 (3.64%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.73%) Firmware
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.91%) Docker
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.91%) Ansible
2 8 (7.27%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.45%) Terraform
4 5 (4.55%) Avamar
4 5 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.73%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.91%) CASB
8 1 (0.91%) Grafana
8 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.91%) Puppet
8 1 (0.91%) SCCM
8 1 (0.91%) SCOM
8 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 110 (100.00%) Cisco
2 53 (48.18%) F5
3 52 (47.27%) Palo Alto
4 32 (29.09%) VMware
5 25 (22.73%) Fortinet
6 23 (20.91%) SolarWinds
7 20 (18.18%) CheckPoint
8 13 (11.82%) Aruba
8 13 (11.82%) Juniper
9 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
10 5 (4.55%) Meraki
10 5 (4.55%) NetApp
11 4 (3.64%) HP
11 4 (3.64%) IBM
11 4 (3.64%) NetScout
11 4 (3.64%) Veeam
12 3 (2.73%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.73%) Arista
12 3 (2.73%) Brocade
12 3 (2.73%) EMC