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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 437 433
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +150
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 91 115 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.29% 2.64% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 94
10th Percentile £343 £363 £318
25th Percentile £411 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £550
90th Percentile £564 £655 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.94% -17.86%
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 3,978 4,361 6,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 12.67% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,554 3,733
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 151 338
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -31.82% +30.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £41.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.66% -27.42% +25.53%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -65 74 £450 -14.29% 13
London +8 52 £450 -14.29% 3
UK excluding London -82 33 £425 -15.00% 14
Work from Home -28 19 £475 -5.00% 9
Scotland +15 11 £425 +13.33% 3
North of England -56 8 £490 +8.78%
South East -39 5 £520 -0.95% 6
Midlands -30 4 £340 -32.00% 2
West Midlands -33 4 £340 -32.00% 2
North West -38 4 £335 -36.19%
Yorkshire -42 4 £498 +81.00%
South West -1 3 £400 -20.00% 2
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 (1.10%) CICS
1 1 (1.10%) Confluence
1 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) AWS
3 6 (6.59%) Akamai
4 4 (4.40%) GCP
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) OCI
7 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) IaaS
7 1 (1.10%) PaaS
7 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (83.52%) Firewall
2 45 (49.45%) LAN
3 44 (48.35%) SD-WAN
4 43 (47.25%) WAN
4 43 (47.25%) Wi-Fi
5 29 (31.87%) BGP
6 27 (29.67%) OSPF
7 24 (26.37%) VPN
8 19 (20.88%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (16.48%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (14.29%) Wireless
11 12 (13.19%) EIGRP
11 12 (13.19%) Network Security
12 10 (10.99%) Cisco Firepower
12 10 (10.99%) Wireshark
13 9 (9.89%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (7.69%) MPLS
14 7 (7.69%) SNMP
14 7 (7.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.10%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Finance
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 25 (27.47%) Architect
3 20 (21.98%) Network Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Network Design Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Designer
8 5 (5.49%) Network Designer
8 5 (5.49%) Network Specialist
9 4 (4.40%) Juniper Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Cisco Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Implementation Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Network Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Network Design Specialist
10 3 (3.30%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Secure Network Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) 802.1X
1 4 (4.40%) LDAP
1 4 (4.40%) VML
2 3 (3.30%) SAML
3 2 (2.20%) REST
4 1 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.10%) Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.10%) FlexPod
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Replication
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) CatOS
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) MVS
3 1 (1.10%) Solaris
3 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Network Design
2 12 (13.19%) High Availability
3 11 (12.09%) Load Balancing
4 10 (10.99%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (9.89%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.79%) Configuration Management
6 8 (8.79%) Migration
7 7 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (6.59%) Data Protection
8 6 (6.59%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (4.40%) Analytics
10 4 (4.40%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (4.40%) Change Management
10 4 (4.40%) DevOps
10 4 (4.40%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.40%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (4.40%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (3.30%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.99%) Python
2 1 (1.10%) Java
2 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 26 (28.57%) CCNP
3 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.09%) CCIE
5 4 (4.40%) CCNA
6 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.30%) Degree
7 1 (1.10%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.10%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.10%) CCSA
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.59%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.30%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.30%) KVM
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) NFS
5 1 (1.10%) SRDF
5 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Ansible
2 8 (8.79%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.49%) Terraform
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (39.56%) Fortinet
3 30 (32.97%) F5
4 24 (26.37%) Palo Alto
5 18 (19.78%) SolarWinds
6 14 (15.38%) Meraki
7 12 (13.19%) CheckPoint
8 11 (12.09%) Juniper
8 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
9 9 (9.89%) VMware
10 7 (7.69%) Aruba
11 5 (5.49%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (3.30%) Arista
12 3 (3.30%) NetScout
13 2 (2.20%) EMC
13 2 (2.20%) NetApp
13 2 (2.20%) Qualys
14 1 (1.10%) Commvault
14 1 (1.10%) IBM
14 1 (1.10%) Oracle