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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 410 427
Rank change year-on-year -125 +17 +94
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 108 116 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.24% 3.13% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 68 100
10th Percentile £359 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +13.16% -1.81%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £668 £620 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £492 £418
% change year-on-year -5.49% +17.65% -1.61%
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 4,827 3,712 5,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.43% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,280 3,213
10th Percentile £250 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £471 £488
% change year-on-year +1.91% -3.38% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 171 425
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.69 £20.93 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.13 £80.00 £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.72 £32.77 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -31.01% +150.00%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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
UK excluding London -93 79 £465 -5.49% 24
England -117 79 £495 -1.59% 21
Work from Home -55 31 £463 -7.50% 12
Scotland +2 23 £456 +1.39% 7
South East -44 22 £463 - 8
London -94 20 £525 +0.96% 7
South West -27 17 £498 -13.48% 2
North of England -88 8 £626 +27.29% 6
West Midlands -59 7 £340 -12.82%
Midlands -61 7 £340 -12.82% 1
North West -48 4 £626 +15.44% 4
Yorkshire -68 3 - - 1
East of England -32 2 £563 -6.25%
North East - 1 - - 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 (1.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.81%) Azure
2 13 (12.04%) AWS
3 6 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (2.78%) Catchpoint
5 3 (2.78%) IaaS
5 3 (2.78%) PaaS
5 3 (2.78%) SaaS
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.93%) GCP
7 1 (0.93%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.93%) OCI
7 1 (0.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (59.26%) Firewall
2 48 (44.44%) WAN
3 43 (39.81%) BGP
3 43 (39.81%) LAN
4 37 (34.26%) OSPF
5 35 (32.41%) VPN
6 31 (28.70%) SD-WAN
7 30 (27.78%) Network Security
8 28 (25.93%) VXLAN
9 25 (23.15%) MPLS
10 24 (22.22%) VLAN
11 20 (18.52%) IPsec
11 20 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (17.59%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (16.67%) Wireless
14 17 (15.74%) NX-OS
15 14 (12.96%) DNS
15 14 (12.96%) Wireshark
16 13 (12.04%) BIG-IP
17 12 (11.11%) SSL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Legal
3 7 (6.48%) Finance
3 7 (6.48%) Law
4 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Retail
5 5 (4.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.93%) Billing
6 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (68.52%) Network Engineer
2 12 (11.11%) Architect
3 9 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) IP Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) IP Network Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) Senior
6 5 (4.63%) Design Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Lead
6 5 (4.63%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Core Network Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) IP Design Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) LDAP
1 7 (6.48%) SAML
2 6 (5.56%) 802.1X
3 4 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 52 (48.15%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.48%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.70%) PKI
4 4 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Celerra
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) EMC Centera
6 2 (1.85%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.85%) EMC VNX
6 2 (1.85%) IBM XIV
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.85%) Symmetrix
6 2 (1.85%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (0.93%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.22%) Windows
2 17 (15.74%) Linux
3 3 (2.78%) CatOS
4 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
2 22 (20.37%) Change Management
3 20 (18.52%) ITIL
3 20 (18.52%) Load Balancing
4 18 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 17 (15.74%) Migration
6 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (13.89%) Network Management
7 13 (12.04%) High Availability
7 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
8 10 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (9.26%) Network Architecture
8 10 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.26%) Project Delivery
8 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (7.41%) ITSM
9 8 (7.41%) Network Design
10 7 (6.48%) Commercial Awareness
10 7 (6.48%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.26%) Python
2 2 (1.85%) ActionScript
2 2 (1.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (34.26%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (26.85%) CCNP
2 29 (26.85%) Security Cleared
3 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.96%) DV Cleared
5 11 (10.19%) CCNA
6 6 (5.56%) Degree
7 5 (4.63%) CCIE
7 5 (4.63%) CCSE
7 5 (4.63%) CCSM
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.85%) CCIP
8 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.85%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.85%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) SLA
3 4 (3.70%) NCSC
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 12 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (10.19%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.48%) vSphere
6 6 (5.56%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.78%) Firmware
9 2 (1.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.85%) vCloud
9 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (11.11%) Ansible
2 7 (6.48%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.70%) Avamar
4 4 (3.70%) Terraform
5 2 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.85%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.93%) CASB
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) Nessus
6 1 (0.93%) SCCM
6 1 (0.93%) SCOM
6 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 108 (100.00%) Cisco
2 54 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 48 (44.44%) F5
4 36 (33.33%) VMware
5 24 (22.22%) Fortinet
6 20 (18.52%) SolarWinds
7 18 (16.67%) CheckPoint
8 17 (15.74%) Juniper
9 13 (12.04%) Aruba
10 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
11 7 (6.48%) Arista
12 5 (4.63%) Meraki
13 4 (3.70%) HP
13 4 (3.70%) NetApp
14 3 (2.78%) NetScout
14 3 (2.78%) Veeam
15 2 (1.85%) 3PAR
15 2 (1.85%) Brocade
15 2 (1.85%) Infoblox
15 2 (1.85%) Isilon