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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 403 432
Rank change year-on-year -144 +29 +86
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 114 143 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 3.62% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 94 91
10th Percentile £388 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £423 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £470
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +4.68% +4.44%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £630 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £492 £433
% change year-on-year -4.07% +13.67% -3.81%
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 5,011 3,952 5,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 12.15% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,028 2,401 3,103
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +2.58% -4.04% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 192 405
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.11 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +21.88% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.90 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.22 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.31% -10.53% -0.48%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -160 85 £500 - 23
UK excluding London -83 79 £472 -4.07% 17
Work from Home -61 28 £463 -7.50% 3
London -124 26 £525 +7.69% 7
Scotland +1 23 £438 -2.78%
South East -50 20 £463 -7.50% 5
South West -41 17 £498 -13.48% 1
North of England -81 12 £500 +1.63% 9
Yorkshire -49 6 £500 +2.15% 6
North West -50 5 £626 +15.39% 3
West Midlands -62 5 £413 -21.43% 1
Midlands -63 5 £413 -21.43% 1
East of England -20 2 £563 -6.25%
North East - 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 (1.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.30%) Azure
2 16 (14.04%) AWS
3 6 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.63%) Catchpoint
5 3 (2.63%) GCP
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.88%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.88%) IaaS
7 1 (0.88%) IBM Watson
7 1 (0.88%) PaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Route 53
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (62.28%) Firewall
2 53 (46.49%) BGP
3 51 (44.74%) WAN
4 48 (42.11%) OSPF
5 45 (39.47%) LAN
6 38 (33.33%) VPN
7 35 (30.70%) Network Security
8 32 (28.07%) SD-WAN
8 32 (28.07%) VLAN
9 27 (23.68%) MPLS
9 27 (23.68%) VXLAN
10 26 (22.81%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (20.18%) Cisco ASA
11 23 (20.18%) IPsec
12 22 (19.30%) Wireless
13 18 (15.79%) DNS
14 17 (14.91%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (14.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (13.16%) NX-OS
16 14 (12.28%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.26%) Finance
4 6 (5.26%) Legal
4 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Retail
6 4 (3.51%) Law
6 4 (3.51%) Police
7 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 15 (13.16%) Architect
3 11 (9.65%) Network Architect
4 10 (8.77%) Senior
5 9 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Lead
7 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) IP Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) IP Network Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Design Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) NOC Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.51%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Core Network Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Lead Architect
10 4 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.51%) LDAP
2 4 (3.51%) REST
2 4 (3.51%) SAML
3 2 (1.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (48.25%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (7.02%) PKI
3 7 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.63%) Celerra
6 3 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.63%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.63%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.63%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.63%) IBM XIV
6 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.63%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.63%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.93%) Windows
2 17 (14.91%) Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) CatOS
4 1 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.18%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (18.42%) Load Balancing
2 21 (18.42%) Roadmaps
3 20 (17.54%) Change Management
4 19 (16.67%) ITIL
5 18 (15.79%) Migration
6 16 (14.04%) Network Management
7 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.28%) High Availability
9 13 (11.40%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 11 (9.65%) Network Architecture
11 11 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (7.02%) Data Protection
13 8 (7.02%) ITSM
13 8 (7.02%) Network Design
13 8 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (1.75%) ActionScript
2 2 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (37.72%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (30.70%) CCNP
3 30 (26.32%) Security Cleared
4 19 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (12.28%) DV Cleared
6 11 (9.65%) CCNA
7 8 (7.02%) CCIE
8 7 (6.14%) Degree
9 5 (4.39%) CCSE
9 5 (4.39%) CCSM
10 4 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.75%) CCIP
11 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.88%) CCDA
12 1 (0.88%) CCDP
12 1 (0.88%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (5.26%) NCSC
1 6 (5.26%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) SLA
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) NIST
3 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (13.16%) VMware NSX
3 12 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.02%) Active Directory
4 8 (7.02%) vSphere
5 6 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.63%) Firmware
7 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (12.28%) Ansible
2 8 (7.02%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.39%) Avamar
3 5 (4.39%) Terraform
4 4 (3.51%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.63%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.88%) CASB
7 1 (0.88%) Grafana
7 1 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.88%) SCOM
7 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 114 (100.00%) Cisco
2 55 (48.25%) Palo Alto
3 51 (44.74%) F5
4 34 (29.82%) VMware
5 25 (21.93%) Fortinet
6 22 (19.30%) SolarWinds
7 19 (16.67%) CheckPoint
8 18 (15.79%) Juniper
9 12 (10.53%) Aruba
10 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
11 7 (6.14%) Arista
12 5 (4.39%) Meraki
12 5 (4.39%) NetApp
13 4 (3.51%) HP
13 4 (3.51%) IBM
13 4 (3.51%) NetScout
13 4 (3.51%) Veeam
14 3 (2.63%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.63%) Brocade
14 3 (2.63%) EMC