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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 414 430
Rank change year-on-year -125 +16 +91
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 116 122 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.37% 3.21% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 76 98
10th Percentile £349 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £581 £541 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £492 £433
% change year-on-year -5.49% +13.76% -1.14%
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 4,900 3,805 5,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 12.29% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 2,324 3,203
10th Percentile £250 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £474 £490
% change year-on-year +1.95% -3.22% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 179 430
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.37 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.44 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.24% - +114.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.20 £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.22 £36.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -23.16% +115.91%

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 2 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 2 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 -133 87 £498 -0.50% 28
UK excluding London -98 84 £465 -5.49% 25
Work from Home -59 31 £463 -7.50% 10
South East -39 24 £463 -7.50% 9
Scotland +2 23 £450 - 5
London -98 23 £580 +16.00% 11
South West -32 17 £498 -13.48% 2
North of England -83 11 £500 +1.63% 8
Midlands -52 7 £340 -12.82%
West Midlands -58 7 £340 -12.82%
Yorkshire -51 5 £500 +2.15% 3
North West -53 5 £626 +15.39% 5
East of England -19 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 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.24%) Azure
2 16 (13.79%) AWS
3 6 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Catchpoint
4 3 (2.59%) GCP
4 3 (2.59%) IaaS
4 3 (2.59%) PaaS
4 3 (2.59%) SaaS
5 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.86%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.86%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 72 (62.07%) Firewall
2 54 (46.55%) WAN
3 49 (42.24%) BGP
4 47 (40.52%) LAN
5 42 (36.21%) OSPF
6 40 (34.48%) VPN
7 34 (29.31%) Network Security
8 33 (28.45%) SD-WAN
9 28 (24.14%) VLAN
9 28 (24.14%) VXLAN
10 27 (23.28%) MPLS
11 24 (20.69%) Cisco ASA
11 24 (20.69%) IPsec
11 24 (20.69%) Wireless
12 22 (18.97%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (17.24%) DNS
14 17 (14.66%) NX-OS
15 16 (13.79%) BIG-IP
15 16 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 15 (12.93%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.86%) Git
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 28 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (6.90%) Legal
2 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.03%) Finance
3 7 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.31%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Retail
6 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Police
7 1 (0.86%) Banking
7 1 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (68.10%) Network Engineer
2 15 (12.93%) Architect
3 11 (9.48%) Network Architect
4 8 (6.90%) Lead
4 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 8 (6.90%) Senior
5 7 (6.03%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) IP Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) IP Network Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Design Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.45%) Core Network Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) 802.1X
1 7 (6.03%) LDAP
1 7 (6.03%) SAML
2 4 (3.45%) REST
3 2 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (48.28%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.17%) PKI
3 6 (5.17%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.59%) Celerra
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.59%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.59%) EMC VMAX
6 3 (2.59%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.59%) IBM XIV
6 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.59%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.55%) Windows
2 17 (14.66%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) CatOS
4 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.86%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.83%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (18.10%) Change Management
2 21 (18.10%) ITIL
2 21 (18.10%) Load Balancing
2 21 (18.10%) Roadmaps
3 18 (15.52%) Migration
4 16 (13.79%) Network Management
5 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (11.21%) High Availability
6 13 (11.21%) Mentoring
6 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (11.21%) Project Delivery
7 12 (10.34%) Network Architecture
7 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (6.90%) Agile
10 8 (6.90%) ITSM
10 8 (6.90%) Network Design
10 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.34%) Python
2 2 (1.72%) ActionScript
2 2 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 42 (36.21%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (29.31%) CCNP
3 32 (27.59%) Security Cleared
4 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
5 16 (13.79%) DV Cleared
6 12 (10.34%) CCNA
7 9 (7.76%) Degree
8 8 (6.90%) CCIE
9 5 (4.31%) CCSE
9 5 (4.31%) CCSM
10 4 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.72%) CCIP
12 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.72%) JNCIS
12 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (5.17%) NCSC
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) SLA
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
3 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (21.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (17.24%) VMware NSX
3 12 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (9.48%) Active Directory
5 8 (6.90%) vSphere
6 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.59%) Firmware
8 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.72%) vCloud
10 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (12.07%) Ansible
2 7 (6.03%) FortiGate
2 7 (6.03%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.17%) Terraform
4 5 (4.31%) Avamar
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (2.59%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.86%) CASB
7 1 (0.86%) Grafana
7 1 (0.86%) Nessus
7 1 (0.86%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) SCOM
7 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (100.00%) Cisco
2 57 (49.14%) Palo Alto
3 53 (45.69%) F5
4 39 (33.62%) VMware
5 24 (20.69%) Fortinet
6 22 (18.97%) SolarWinds
7 20 (17.24%) CheckPoint
8 17 (14.66%) Juniper
9 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
10 13 (11.21%) Aruba
11 8 (6.90%) Arista
12 5 (4.31%) Meraki
12 5 (4.31%) NetApp
13 4 (3.45%) HP
13 4 (3.45%) IBM
13 4 (3.45%) NetScout
13 4 (3.45%) Veeam
14 3 (2.59%) 3PAR
14 3 (2.59%) Brocade
14 3 (2.59%) EMC