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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 416 416
Rank change year-on-year -116 0 +162
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 76 104 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 2.59% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 65 87
10th Percentile £303 £363 £331
25th Percentile £345 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £433
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +20.04% -13.36%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £544
90th Percentile £538 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £420
% change year-on-year -15.00% +19.05% -18.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £62.24
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +5.37%

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 4,243 4,021 5,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 13.14% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,423 3,581
10th Percentile £204 £209 £205
25th Percentile £360 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.34%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -0.32% -1.05% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 130 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.18 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -18.82% +123.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -36.42% +163.16%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -120 49 £380 -27.53% 15
UK excluding London -98 48 £425 -15.00% 12
Work from Home -37 30 £472 -5.60% 9
Scotland +22 21 £425 -2.86% 1
London -48 21 £500 -4.76% 5
South East -35 10 £363 -37.68% 4
North of England -80 7 £335 -25.56% 5
West Midlands -45 5 £308 -38.50%
North West -50 5 £335 -39.09% 4
Midlands -52 5 £308 -38.50%
South West -34 3 £400 -20.00% 2
East of England -24 2 £563 +104.55% 1
Yorkshire -65 2 - - 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:

Applications
1 9 (11.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.84%) Azure
2 6 (7.89%) AWS
3 4 (5.26%) IaaS
3 4 (5.26%) PaaS
3 4 (5.26%) SaaS
4 3 (3.95%) Catchpoint
4 3 (3.95%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) OCI
6 1 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (73.68%) Firewall
2 43 (56.58%) WAN
3 34 (44.74%) BGP
4 33 (43.42%) LAN
5 32 (42.11%) VPN
6 29 (38.16%) OSPF
7 25 (32.89%) SD-WAN
8 22 (28.95%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (27.63%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (25.00%) Wireless
11 16 (21.05%) MPLS
11 16 (21.05%) Network Security
12 15 (19.74%) IPsec
13 13 (17.11%) Cisco IOS
14 12 (15.79%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (15.79%) EIGRP
15 10 (13.16%) Wireshark
16 9 (11.84%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (11.84%) NX-OS
16 9 (11.84%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Law
3 7 (9.21%) Legal
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Retail
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Billing
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (81.58%) Network Engineer
2 8 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Senior
4 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Consultant
6 3 (3.95%) Core Network Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Field Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) IP Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Network Consultant
6 3 (3.95%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Secure Network Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Design Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) IP Design Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) LDAP
1 6 (7.89%) SAML
2 5 (6.58%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.26%) VML
4 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (47.37%) Data Centre
2 9 (11.84%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.32%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) CatOS
2 4 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (15.79%) Change Management
3 11 (14.47%) Migration
4 10 (13.16%) Load Balancing
4 10 (13.16%) Project Delivery
5 9 (11.84%) High Availability
5 9 (11.84%) Network Design
5 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.53%) ITIL
6 8 (10.53%) Network Management
7 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.89%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.89%) Problem Management
8 6 (7.89%) Security Management
8 6 (7.89%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (6.58%) Agile
9 5 (6.58%) Kalman Filter
9 5 (6.58%) Network Architecture
9 5 (6.58%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (5.26%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) Python
2 1 (1.32%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (36.84%) CCNP
3 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
5 10 (13.16%) CCIE
6 8 (10.53%) CCNA
7 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
8 4 (5.26%) Degree
9 2 (2.63%) CCIP
9 2 (2.63%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.63%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.32%) CCDA
10 1 (1.32%) CCDP
10 1 (1.32%) CCSA
10 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.79%) VMware NSX
3 7 (9.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.26%) vSphere
5 2 (2.63%) vCloud
6 1 (1.32%) Firmware
6 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Ansible
2 7 (9.21%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (7.89%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.26%) Terraform
5 3 (3.95%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.32%) CASB
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.32%) Nessus
6 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (52.63%) Palo Alto
3 23 (30.26%) F5
4 18 (23.68%) CheckPoint
4 18 (23.68%) VMware
5 15 (19.74%) Meraki
5 15 (19.74%) SolarWinds
6 14 (18.42%) Fortinet
6 14 (18.42%) Juniper
7 13 (17.11%) Aruba
8 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
9 7 (9.21%) Arista
10 2 (2.63%) AppNeta
10 2 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (2.63%) NetScout
11 1 (1.32%) Dell
11 1 (1.32%) HP
11 1 (1.32%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.32%) Tufin
11 1 (1.32%) Veeam