Cisco Nexus Job Trends in England

Cisco Nexus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 540 704
Rank change year-on-year -46 +164 +78
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Nexus 67 87 95
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 1.68% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 74 65
10th Percentile £25,750 £52,500 £40,950
25th Percentile £48,683 £71,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +45.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £97,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £80,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -26.56% +34.45% -0.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Cisco Nexus falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,369 5,185 10,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.19% 13.40% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,628 3,344 8,328
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,270 £36,836 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £53,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.68% +9.28% -4.98%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £41,000 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -22.64% +9.28% -7.62%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco Nexus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in England

Cisco Nexus
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Nexus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus in England over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Nexus in England

Cisco Nexus
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus within the England region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -26 22 £76,750 -5.54% 3
South East +3 17 £57,500 +4.55% 5
North East -18 8 - - 1
North of England -53 8 - - 8
Midlands -15 6 £26,500 -60.74% 1
East Midlands -32 6 £26,500 -51.82%
East of England -5 3 £46,160 -48.71% 3
South West -34 2 £70,000 -12.50%
Cisco Nexus
UK

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.49%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (23.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 3 (4.48%) Mimecast
4 2 (2.99%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.49%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 41 (61.19%) Firewall
2 37 (55.22%) LAN
3 35 (52.24%) BGP
3 35 (52.24%) OSPF
4 34 (50.75%) Wireless
5 32 (47.76%) WAN
6 30 (44.78%) Network Security
7 29 (43.28%) Cisco ASA
8 26 (38.81%) VLAN
9 24 (35.82%) VPN
10 23 (34.33%) EIGRP
11 19 (28.36%) Cisco ISE
12 16 (23.88%) WAAS
13 15 (22.39%) Cisco Wireless
14 14 (20.90%) SNMP
14 14 (20.90%) Wireless Security
15 12 (17.91%) SD-WAN
15 12 (17.91%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (8.96%) Spanning Tree
16 6 (8.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.49%) Metadata
1 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.49%) MySQL
1 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) MLflow
General
1 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.99%) Marketing
5 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Electronics
5 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (61.19%) Network Engineer
2 24 (35.82%) Senior
3 23 (34.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (19.40%) Lead
4 13 (19.40%) Network Team Leader
4 13 (19.40%) Team Leader
5 6 (8.96%) Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Help Desk Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) Lead Network Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Network Consultant
7 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Network Security Specialist
8 3 (4.48%) Network Specialist
8 3 (4.48%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.49%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.49%) Kafka
1 1 (1.49%) Keycloak
1 1 (1.49%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.49%) CCTV
4 1 (1.49%) FMCG
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) MPEG
4 1 (1.49%) PKI
4 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Robotics
4 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Root Cause Analysis
2 18 (26.87%) Load Balancing
3 16 (23.88%) Computer Science
3 16 (23.88%) Kalman Filter
3 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (22.39%) Collaborative Working
4 15 (22.39%) Project Delivery
5 14 (20.90%) Analytical Thinking
5 14 (20.90%) WAN Optimisation
6 12 (17.91%) Customer Service
7 11 (16.42%) Problem Management
8 10 (14.93%) Observability
9 7 (10.45%) Change Management
10 6 (8.96%) Break/Fix
10 6 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (8.96%) Service Management
10 6 (8.96%) Threat Management
11 5 (7.46%) ITIL
11 5 (7.46%) Zero Trust
12 4 (5.97%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) Python
2 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (73.13%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (64.18%) CCNP
3 19 (28.36%) CCIE
4 16 (23.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (23.88%) Degree
5 9 (13.43%) CCNA
5 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
6 8 (11.94%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.49%) CCSE
9 1 (1.49%) CCSM
9 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.88%) PMO
2 3 (4.48%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) ProxySG
2 4 (5.97%) Firmware
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.49%) Docker
4 1 (1.49%) NFS
4 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) FortiGate
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Terraform
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) vRealize
4 1 (1.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (37.31%) Fortinet
3 23 (34.33%) SolarWinds
4 22 (32.84%) CheckPoint
5 20 (29.85%) Palo Alto
6 17 (25.37%) Infoblox
6 17 (25.37%) Meraki
7 16 (23.88%) Motorola
8 15 (22.39%) F5
9 14 (20.90%) Blue Coat
9 14 (20.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (5.97%) Splunk
11 3 (4.48%) Okta
11 3 (4.48%) Sophos
11 3 (4.48%) VMware
11 3 (4.48%) Zscaler
12 2 (2.99%) AlgoSec
13 1 (1.49%) Aruba
13 1 (1.49%) NetApp
13 1 (1.49%) NETGEAR