Cisco Nexus Contracts

Cisco Nexus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Nexus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 536 650
Rank change year-on-year +113 +114 -159
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 161 176 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 2.37% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 100 121
10th Percentile £300 £361 £350
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +6.74% +11.76%
75th Percentile £525 £612 £550
90th Percentile £638 £676 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -16.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £56.68 £49.55
25th Percentile £58.50 £62.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +20.41% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.23 £54.00
90th Percentile - £69.61 £54.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £52.00
% change year-on-year +0.61% +20.41% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco Nexus is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,705 7,429 9,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 12.35% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 4,839 6,415
10th Percentile £205 £231 £227
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 491 363
10th Percentile £13.71 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.53 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.21 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.95 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +153.76% -13.95% -11.34%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 Contract 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 24 April 2024. 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 +126 148 £400 -25.06% 27
UK excluding London +72 104 £396 -16.63% 18
Work from Home +90 49 £345 -31.95% 10
London +81 42 £400 -36.00% 12
South East +41 42 £375 -16.67% 4
North of England +39 30 £396 -24.57% 3
North West +20 22 £416 -20.70% 1
Midlands +47 20 £600 +60.00% 1
West Midlands +37 15 - - 1
South West +10 13 £295 -34.44% 3
East of England +19 7 £375 -21.05% 3
North East +21 6 £375 -31.82%
East Midlands +17 5 £600 -
Yorkshire +18 2 £205 -61.14% 2

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 4 (2.48%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (8.07%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.66%) AWS
1 22 (13.66%) Azure
2 9 (5.59%) GCP
3 5 (3.11%) OCI
4 4 (2.48%) Nutanix
5 2 (1.24%) GitHub
6 1 (0.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 98 (60.87%) Firewall
2 61 (37.89%) Cisco ASA
3 53 (32.92%) LAN
4 52 (32.30%) WAN
5 50 (31.06%) BGP
6 47 (29.19%) OSPF
7 44 (27.33%) Wireless
8 43 (26.71%) VPN
9 37 (22.98%) MPLS
10 31 (19.25%) SD-WAN
11 27 (16.77%) DNS
12 25 (15.53%) IPsec
13 23 (14.29%) DHCP
13 23 (14.29%) DMZ
14 18 (11.18%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (9.94%) VLAN
16 15 (9.32%) EIGRP
16 15 (9.32%) Network Security
17 14 (8.70%) Spanning Tree
17 14 (8.70%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 18 (11.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.86%) Git
3 2 (1.24%) JIRA
General
1 40 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Finance
3 24 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.07%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.45%) Banking
6 11 (6.83%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Police
10 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (81.99%) Network Engineer
2 21 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
2 21 (13.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 20 (12.42%) Senior
4 13 (8.07%) Network Support
4 13 (8.07%) Network Support Engineer
4 13 (8.07%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (8.07%) Support Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Juniper Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Architect
6 9 (5.59%) Consultant
6 9 (5.59%) Network Architect
6 9 (5.59%) Network Consultant
6 9 (5.59%) Network Operations Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (4.35%) Senior Network Consultant
8 6 (3.73%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.83%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.48%) EDI
2 4 (2.48%) Web Services
3 2 (1.24%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (39.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) Clustering
3 5 (3.11%) PKI
4 4 (2.48%) CCTV
4 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.48%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.48%) SCADA
5 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.07%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.01%) ITSM
2 26 (16.15%) High Availability
3 19 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (9.94%) Computer Science
5 14 (8.70%) Network Design
6 13 (8.07%) Change Control
7 12 (7.45%) Design Patterns
7 12 (7.45%) Load Balancing
7 12 (7.45%) Network Architecture
8 11 (6.83%) Kalman Filter
9 10 (6.21%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (6.21%) Network Monitoring
9 10 (6.21%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (5.59%) Migration
10 9 (5.59%) Roadmaps
11 8 (4.97%) Incident Management
11 8 (4.97%) ITIL
11 8 (4.97%) Problem Management
11 8 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (4.35%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.29%) Python
2 8 (4.97%) Bash
3 3 (1.86%) Perl
3 3 (1.86%) SQL
4 2 (1.24%) C#
4 2 (1.24%) Go
4 2 (1.24%) Java
4 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (54.04%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (44.10%) CCNP
3 41 (25.47%) CCNA
4 27 (16.77%) Security Cleared
5 20 (12.42%) CCIE
6 19 (11.80%) Degree
7 13 (8.07%) SC Cleared
8 7 (4.35%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.73%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.73%) JNCIS
10 5 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.11%) CCDP
10 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.48%) CCIE Data Center
11 4 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.35%) SLA
2 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (10.56%) VMware NSX
2 6 (3.73%) Firmware
2 6 (3.73%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.73%) KVM
2 6 (3.73%) vSphere
3 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Ansible
2 12 (7.45%) Terraform
3 9 (5.59%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.35%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (3.11%) OpenView
6 3 (1.86%) Kibana
7 2 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.24%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.24%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.62%) Netcool
8 1 (0.62%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.62%) SCCM
8 1 (0.62%) SCOM
8 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 156 (96.89%) Cisco
2 56 (34.78%) F5
3 50 (31.06%) Palo Alto
4 32 (19.88%) CheckPoint
5 27 (16.77%) Juniper
6 26 (16.15%) Fortinet
7 20 (12.42%) Infoblox
7 20 (12.42%) SolarWinds
7 20 (12.42%) VMware
8 11 (6.83%) Blue Coat
9 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
10 8 (4.97%) Arista
10 8 (4.97%) Aruba
10 8 (4.97%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.73%) Meraki
11 6 (3.73%) Nokia
12 5 (3.11%) Google
12 5 (3.11%) Splunk
13 3 (1.86%) AlgoSec
13 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow