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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 436 410
Rank change year-on-year -86 -26 +170
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 68 99 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.74% 2.42% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 58 101
10th Percentile £303 £360 £325
25th Percentile £339 £428 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £550
90th Percentile £535 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £411
% change year-on-year -15.00% +21.75% -21.78%
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 3,897 4,090 5,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 12.84% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,562 2,395 3,566
10th Percentile £205 £213 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 138 334
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.15 £17.83
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £23.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -40.25% +135.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.44 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.33 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £59.75
% change year-on-year +29.05% -45.61% +185.48%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -81 48 £425 -19.05% 30
UK excluding London -60 38 £425 -15.00% 33
Work from Home -28 26 £475 -5.00% 30
London -21 24 £475 -9.52% 6
Scotland +17 15 £425 +13.33% 4
South East -38 8 £340 -35.24% 13
West Midlands -33 5 £308 -38.50% 2
Midlands -40 5 £308 -38.50% 2
North of England -59 5 £335 -25.56% 5
North West -27 4 £335 -36.19% 3
South West -13 3 £400 -20.00% 1
East of England -17 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -53 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 1 (1.47%) CICS
1 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.18%) Azure
2 8 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
3 3 (4.41%) IaaS
3 3 (4.41%) PaaS
3 3 (4.41%) SaaS
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) OCI
5 1 (1.47%) Akamai
5 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 50 (73.53%) Firewall
2 42 (61.76%) WAN
3 34 (50.00%) LAN
4 30 (44.12%) VPN
5 26 (38.24%) BGP
6 25 (36.76%) SD-WAN
7 22 (32.35%) OSPF
7 22 (32.35%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (25.00%) Wireless
10 12 (17.65%) EIGRP
11 10 (14.71%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (14.71%) IPsec
11 10 (14.71%) MPLS
12 9 (13.24%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (13.24%) Network Security
13 8 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (11.76%) VXLAN
13 8 (11.76%) Wireshark
14 7 (10.29%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Law
3 5 (7.35%) Legal
4 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (76.47%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Architect
4 6 (8.82%) Senior
5 5 (7.35%) Network Architect
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Field Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Network Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) Network Design Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Secure Network Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Juniper Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.47%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) LDAP
2 6 (8.82%) SAML
3 5 (7.35%) 802.1X
4 4 (5.88%) VML
5 2 (2.94%) REST
6 1 (1.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (51.47%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.29%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) iSeries
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 4 (5.88%) CatOS
3 3 (4.41%) Linux
4 1 (1.47%) MVS
4 1 (1.47%) Solaris
4 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (16.18%) Network Design
3 10 (14.71%) High Availability
3 10 (14.71%) Load Balancing
3 10 (14.71%) Project Delivery
4 8 (11.76%) Migration
4 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.29%) Change Management
5 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.82%) Configuration Management
6 6 (8.82%) ITIL
6 6 (8.82%) Network Management
6 6 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (7.35%) Problem Management
7 5 (7.35%) Security Management
8 3 (4.41%) AI
8 3 (4.41%) Change Control
8 3 (4.41%) DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.41%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (1.47%) Java
2 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (35.29%) CCNP
3 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
4 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 9 (13.24%) CCIE
6 4 (5.88%) CCNA
6 4 (5.88%) Degree
7 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.47%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.47%) CCSA
9 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (16.18%) VMware NSX
3 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.41%) KVM
5 2 (2.94%) vCloud
6 1 (1.47%) Firmware
6 1 (1.47%) NFS
6 1 (1.47%) SRDF
6 1 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Ansible
2 6 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (7.35%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.88%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (45.59%) Palo Alto
3 23 (33.82%) F5
4 15 (22.06%) Meraki
5 14 (20.59%) CheckPoint
6 13 (19.12%) SolarWinds
6 13 (19.12%) VMware
7 12 (17.65%) Fortinet
8 10 (14.71%) Aruba
8 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
9 4 (5.88%) Juniper
10 2 (2.94%) Arista
10 2 (2.94%) EMC
10 2 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (1.47%) IBM
11 1 (1.47%) McAfee
11 1 (1.47%) NetApp
11 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA
11 1 (1.47%) Oracle
11 1 (1.47%) Pure Storage