Cisco Nexus Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Nexus
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 107 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 +62
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 3 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.33% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 2.45% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £243 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% -2.44% +40.60%
75th Percentile £453 - £553
90th Percentile £564 - £600
England median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 346 245 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.08% 13.49% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 134 228
10th Percentile £209 £172 £204
25th Percentile £300 £286 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +6.76% -4.23%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £575
90th Percentile £584 £672 £691
England median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 21
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £34.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £45.92 £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Nexus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the West Midlands

Cisco Nexus
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cisco Nexus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Birmingham -5 3 £255 - 1
Cisco Nexus
England

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Support
1 2 (66.67%) Network Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) NetScout
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto