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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 437 451
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +181
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 112 136 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.94% 3.00% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 81 118
10th Percentile £381 £331 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £563 £625 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -6.90% +14.29% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £36.63 - £62.38
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £65.98
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - £68.98
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 3,807 4,537 6,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 11.86% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,354 2,642 4,185
10th Percentile £225 £225 £226
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £677 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -9.70% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 255 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £22.94
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +36.12%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus 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 September 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 17 September 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 +10 98 £475 -5.00% 20
London +44 65 £450 -13.25% 14
UK excluding London -34 41 £466 -6.90% 14
Work from Home -17 18 £450 -4.26% 10
North of England -13 13 £491 +72.19%
Scotland -2 10 £450 +16.13% 3
Yorkshire -4 10 £492 +78.91%
Midlands -12 8 £525 +5.00% 1
West Midlands -10 7 £525 +5.00%
South East -5 6 £510 +2.00% 10
South West +19 4 £535 +18.89%
North West -22 3 £450 +52.54%
East of England -4 1 - -
East Midlands -6 1 - - 1

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) CICS
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.61%) Azure
2 9 (8.04%) AWS
3 8 (7.14%) Akamai
4 4 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) npm
6 2 (1.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.89%) GitHub
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 80 (71.43%) Firewall
2 57 (50.89%) LAN
3 53 (47.32%) SD-WAN
3 53 (47.32%) WAN
4 39 (34.82%) Wi-Fi
5 28 (25.00%) BGP
6 27 (24.11%) OSPF
7 23 (20.54%) VPN
8 17 (15.18%) Wireless
9 16 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (13.39%) MPLS
11 13 (11.61%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (11.61%) VXLAN
12 11 (9.82%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (8.93%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (8.93%) Ethernet
13 10 (8.93%) Network Security
14 9 (8.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (8.04%) Multicast
15 8 (7.14%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.68%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.79%) webpack
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 15 (13.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.61%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.14%) Finance
3 8 (7.14%) Law
4 7 (6.25%) Legal
5 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (58.93%) Network Engineer
2 26 (23.21%) Architect
3 21 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 14 (12.50%) Senior
5 12 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Implementation Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Network Design Architect
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (8.04%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Designer
10 5 (4.46%) Juniper Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Network Designer
11 4 (3.57%) Consultant
11 4 (3.57%) LAN Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Network Specialist
11 4 (3.57%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.68%) Network Field Engineer
12 3 (2.68%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.68%) JSON
2 2 (1.79%) CSS
2 2 (1.79%) HTML
2 2 (1.79%) Jest
2 2 (1.79%) React
2 2 (1.79%) REST
2 2 (1.79%) RESTful
2 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.79%) Web Services
3 1 (0.89%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.89%) LDAP
3 1 (0.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.36%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Clustering
6 1 (0.89%) FlexPod
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Replication
6 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) MVS
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Solaris
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.64%) Network Design
2 21 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (13.39%) High Availability
4 12 (10.71%) Load Balancing
5 10 (8.93%) Analytics
5 10 (8.93%) Change Management
5 10 (8.93%) Data Protection
5 10 (8.93%) ITIL
6 9 (8.04%) Migration
6 9 (8.04%) Project Delivery
7 8 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
8 7 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (5.36%) DevOps
9 6 (5.36%) Problem Management
9 6 (5.36%) Security Management
10 5 (4.46%) Network Management
10 5 (4.46%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (4.46%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (3.57%) Incident Response
11 4 (3.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.93%) Python
2 3 (2.68%) Java
3 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (33.04%) Security Cleared
3 33 (29.46%) SC Cleared
4 23 (20.54%) CCNP
5 10 (8.93%) CCIE
6 8 (7.14%) CCNA
7 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.68%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (1.79%) Degree
8 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) CCDP
9 1 (0.89%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.89%) CCSP
9 1 (0.89%) CISSP
9 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.89%) GSEC
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.89%) NIST
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) Firmware
2 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.68%) KVM
3 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.89%) NFS
4 1 (0.89%) SRDF
4 1 (0.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (15.18%) Ansible
2 12 (10.71%) FortiGate
3 10 (8.93%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (4.46%) Terraform
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.68%) OpenView
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.89%) Nagios
6 1 (0.89%) OPNET
6 1 (0.89%) Puppet
6 1 (0.89%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (100.00%) Cisco
2 44 (39.29%) Fortinet
3 31 (27.68%) F5
4 26 (23.21%) Palo Alto
5 23 (20.54%) SolarWinds
6 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
7 13 (11.61%) Juniper
8 11 (9.82%) CheckPoint
9 9 (8.04%) VMware
10 7 (6.25%) Aruba
11 6 (5.36%) LogicMonitor
11 6 (5.36%) Meraki
12 5 (4.46%) Arista
13 3 (2.68%) AlgoSec
13 3 (2.68%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.68%) NetScout
13 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
13 3 (2.68%) Splunk
14 2 (1.79%) Qualys
14 2 (1.79%) Salesforce