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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 418 414
Rank change year-on-year -109 -4 +170
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 68 102 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 2.50% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 61 107
10th Percentile £303 £363 £321
25th Percentile £339 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +15.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £481 £588 £550
90th Percentile £525 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £405
% change year-on-year -15.00% +23.46% -22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £63.74
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.44
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 4,059 4,085 6,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 12.99% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,674 2,378 3,682
10th Percentile £204 £213 £208
25th Percentile £356 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -4.83%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 137 395
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.38 £15.65
25th Percentile £18.94 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +141.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.79 £56.40
% change year-on-year +27.52% -43.63% +196.84%

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 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 30 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 -108 45 £350 -33.33% 14
UK excluding London -64 43 £425 -15.00% 13
Work from Home -25 26 £475 -5.00% 8
London -45 20 £500 -4.76% 5
Scotland +20 19 £425 +13.33% 2
North of England -72 8 £335 -33.00% 1
South East -42 6 £323 -38.57% 4
North West -33 5 £335 -39.09% 1
West Midlands -33 5 £308 -38.50% 1
Midlands -47 5 £308 -38.50% 1
South West -18 3 £400 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -53 3 - -
East of England -18 2 - - 2

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 9 (13.24%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) Catchpoint
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 41 (60.29%) WAN
3 31 (45.59%) BGP
4 30 (44.12%) LAN
5 28 (41.18%) VPN
6 26 (38.24%) OSPF
7 22 (32.35%) SD-WAN
8 21 (30.88%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
10 17 (25.00%) Wireless
11 15 (22.06%) Network Security
12 12 (17.65%) EIGRP
13 10 (14.71%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (14.71%) IPsec
14 9 (13.24%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (13.24%) Cisco IOS
14 9 (13.24%) MPLS
15 8 (11.76%) DNS
15 8 (11.76%) VXLAN
15 8 (11.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Law
3 5 (7.35%) Legal
4 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (80.88%) Network Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Field Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Network Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Network Field Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Secure Network Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Architect
9 1 (1.47%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (1.47%) Junior
9 1 (1.47%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Project Manager
9 1 (1.47%) Security Engineer
9 1 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
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 1 (1.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (52.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) 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%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) CatOS
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (4.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) MVS
3 1 (1.47%) Solaris
3 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (14.71%) High Availability
2 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.71%) Project Delivery
3 9 (13.24%) Migration
4 8 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 7 (10.29%) Change Management
5 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (10.29%) Network Design
6 6 (8.82%) ITIL
6 6 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (7.35%) Agile
7 5 (7.35%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.35%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (7.35%) Network Architecture
7 5 (7.35%) Network Management
7 5 (7.35%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (5.88%) Problem Management
8 4 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (1.47%) Java
2 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (44.12%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (39.71%) CCNP
3 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
4 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 11 (16.18%) CCIE
6 6 (8.82%) CCNA
7 4 (5.88%) Degree
8 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.94%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.94%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.47%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.47%) CCSA
10 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 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 14 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (20.59%) VMware NSX
2 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.41%) KVM
3 3 (4.41%) vSphere
4 2 (2.94%) vCloud
5 1 (1.47%) Firmware
5 1 (1.47%) NFS
5 1 (1.47%) SRDF
5 1 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (19.12%) Ansible
2 6 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.82%) Terraform
3 5 (7.35%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.47%) Nessus
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) Cisco
2 34 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 21 (30.88%) F5
4 16 (23.53%) VMware
5 15 (22.06%) Meraki
6 14 (20.59%) CheckPoint
7 13 (19.12%) SolarWinds
8 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 10 (14.71%) Aruba
10 9 (13.24%) Fortinet
11 8 (11.76%) Arista
11 8 (11.76%) Juniper
12 2 (2.94%) AppNeta
12 2 (2.94%) EMC
12 2 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
13 1 (1.47%) IBM
13 1 (1.47%) NetApp
13 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA
13 1 (1.47%) Oracle
13 1 (1.47%) Pure Storage