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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 437 460
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 +140
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 109 127 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% 2.84% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 79 113
10th Percentile £381 £367 £330
25th Percentile £413 £460 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £514 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £36.63 - £63.58
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £65.98
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
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 3,853 4,467 6,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 12.08% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,486 2,560 4,087
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £356 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -4.53% +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 168 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.13 £26.25 £22.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -27.13% -14.84% +41.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.22 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.56% -11.49% +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 25 October 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 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 25 October 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 -20 90 £470 -10.43% 14
London +17 60 £450 -16.28% 5
UK excluding London -40 44 £450 -10.00% 10
Work from Home -17 16 £450 -10.00% 10
Scotland +7 14 £425 +9.68% 1
North of England -32 12 £491 -10.77% 2
Yorkshire -15 10 £492 +78.91%
Midlands -30 7 £538 +7.50% 4
South East -16 6 £510 +2.00% 3
West Midlands -23 6 £538 +7.50% 3
South West +8 3 - -
East of England -20 2 - -
North West -28 2 £335 -39.09%
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 (1.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) CICS
2 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) Azure
2 10 (9.17%) AWS
3 8 (7.34%) Akamai
4 4 (3.67%) GCP
4 4 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) npm
5 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub
6 1 (0.92%) IaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (73.39%) Firewall
2 55 (50.46%) SD-WAN
3 54 (49.54%) WAN
4 53 (48.62%) LAN
5 43 (39.45%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (27.52%) BGP
7 29 (26.61%) OSPF
8 24 (22.02%) VPN
9 19 (17.43%) Wireless
10 17 (15.60%) Cisco ISE
11 16 (14.68%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (11.93%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (10.09%) MPLS
13 11 (10.09%) Network Security
14 10 (9.17%) EIGRP
14 10 (9.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (9.17%) VXLAN
15 9 (8.26%) Ethernet
15 9 (8.26%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (6.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.75%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.83%) webpack
4 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
1 13 (11.93%) Telecoms
2 8 (7.34%) Finance
3 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Law
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Legal
7 2 (1.83%) Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (56.88%) Network Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) Architect
3 21 (19.27%) Network Architect
4 12 (11.01%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Senior
5 11 (10.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (10.09%) Implementation Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Network Design Architect
7 9 (8.26%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Designer
8 5 (4.59%) Juniper Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Network Designer
8 5 (4.59%) Network Specialist
8 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Field Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Network Field Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Lead
10 3 (2.75%) Network Design Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.83%) CSS
2 2 (1.83%) HTML
2 2 (1.83%) Jest
2 2 (1.83%) React
2 2 (1.83%) REST
2 2 (1.83%) RESTful
2 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.92%) LDAP
3 1 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (49.54%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.42%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.75%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.92%) Clustering
6 1 (0.92%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.92%) FlexPod
6 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.92%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Windows
2 5 (4.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) MVS
3 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Solaris
3 1 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.10%) Network Design
2 20 (18.35%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (13.76%) High Availability
4 10 (9.17%) Analytics
4 10 (9.17%) Data Protection
4 10 (9.17%) Load Balancing
5 9 (8.26%) Project Delivery
6 8 (7.34%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (6.42%) Migration
8 6 (5.50%) Change Management
8 6 (5.50%) DevOps
9 5 (4.59%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (4.59%) ITIL
9 5 (4.59%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (4.59%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (4.59%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (3.67%) AI
10 4 (3.67%) Network Architecture
10 4 (3.67%) Network Management
10 4 (3.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.01%) Python
2 3 (2.75%) Java
3 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (40.37%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (32.11%) Security Cleared
3 31 (28.44%) SC Cleared
4 25 (22.94%) CCNP
5 11 (10.09%) CCIE
6 8 (7.34%) CCNA
7 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.75%) Degree
8 2 (1.83%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.92%) CCDP
9 1 (0.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.92%) CCSA
9 1 (0.92%) CISSP
9 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.92%) GSEC
9 1 (0.92%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.92%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.92%) NIST
2 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Firmware
1 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.75%) KVM
3 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.92%) NFS
4 1 (0.92%) SRDF
4 1 (0.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.92%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Ansible
2 12 (11.01%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.50%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (4.59%) Terraform
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.83%) OpenView
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (37.61%) Fortinet
3 31 (28.44%) F5
4 24 (22.02%) Palo Alto
5 22 (20.18%) SolarWinds
6 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
7 12 (11.01%) Juniper
7 12 (11.01%) Meraki
8 8 (7.34%) CheckPoint
9 7 (6.42%) VMware
10 6 (5.50%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (4.59%) Arista
12 4 (3.67%) Aruba
13 3 (2.75%) AlgoSec
13 3 (2.75%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.75%) NetScout
14 2 (1.83%) EMC
14 2 (1.83%) NetApp
14 2 (1.83%) Qualys
14 2 (1.83%) Salesforce