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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 569 527
Rank change year-on-year +26 -42 +242
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Nexus 57 107 139
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 1.61% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 41 97 109
10th Percentile £25,750 £51,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £46,160 £53,750 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £80,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -28.13% +29.03% -4.62%

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 8,895 6,646 6,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.10% 13.40% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 3,518 5,355
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -5 21 £75,000 -10.18% 8
South East +21 16 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Midlands +26 11 £26,500 -44.21% 4
East Midlands -5 6 £26,500 -33.75% 1
West Midlands +21 5 £75,000 -6.25% 3
North of England +14 3 - - 1
North East +10 3 - -
East of England +22 2 £46,160 -48.71% 1
South West +5 1 £55,000 -18.52% 2
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 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.51%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (17.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) AWS
3 2 (3.51%) Dagster
3 2 (3.51%) GCP
3 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
3 2 (3.51%) Rubrik
3 2 (3.51%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 36 (63.16%) Firewall
2 32 (56.14%) LAN
3 25 (43.86%) Wireless
4 24 (42.11%) BGP
4 24 (42.11%) OSPF
4 24 (42.11%) WAN
5 23 (40.35%) Cisco ASA
6 19 (33.33%) VPN
7 18 (31.58%) Network Security
8 17 (29.82%) EIGRP
8 17 (29.82%) VLAN
9 16 (28.07%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (21.05%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (17.54%) WAAS
12 9 (15.79%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (14.04%) SD-WAN
13 8 (14.04%) SNMP
14 6 (10.53%) TACACS
15 5 (8.77%) Spanning Tree
15 5 (8.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.51%) Metadata
1 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.51%) MySQL
1 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.51%) GitLab
2 2 (3.51%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.51%) MLflow
General
1 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Marketing
3 6 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Agriculture
5 2 (3.51%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Network Engineer
2 18 (31.58%) Senior
3 17 (29.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Lead
4 12 (21.05%) Network Team Leader
4 12 (21.05%) Team Leader
5 6 (10.53%) Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Lead Network Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Cisco Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.51%) Kafka
2 2 (3.51%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.51%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.51%) IoT
2 2 (3.51%) MPEG
2 2 (3.51%) Robotics
3 1 (1.75%) CCTV
3 1 (1.75%) FMCG
3 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
1 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Customer Service
2 15 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
3 11 (19.30%) Load Balancing
3 11 (19.30%) Problem Management
4 10 (17.54%) Computer Science
4 10 (17.54%) Kalman Filter
4 10 (17.54%) Observability
5 8 (14.04%) Change Management
6 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
7 6 (10.53%) Break/Fix
7 6 (10.53%) High Availability
7 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.53%) Service Management
7 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (10.53%) Systems Analysis
8 5 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.77%) Time Management
9 4 (7.02%) Analytical Thinking
9 4 (7.02%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) Python
2 2 (3.51%) Bash
Qualifications
1 44 (77.19%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (66.67%) CCNP
3 13 (22.81%) Degree
4 11 (19.30%) CCIE
5 10 (17.54%) CCNA
5 10 (17.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) ProxySG
2 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.26%) Firmware
4 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.51%) Docker
4 2 (3.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (3.51%) NFS
4 2 (3.51%) pfSense
4 2 (3.51%) Squid
4 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Ansible
2 5 (8.77%) FortiGate
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) VxRail
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (3.51%) Argo
5 2 (3.51%) Grafana
5 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (45.61%) Fortinet
3 16 (28.07%) SolarWinds
4 15 (26.32%) Meraki
5 14 (24.56%) Palo Alto
6 12 (21.05%) CheckPoint
7 11 (19.30%) F5
7 11 (19.30%) Infoblox
8 10 (17.54%) Motorola
9 8 (14.04%) Blue Coat
10 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
10 4 (7.02%) VMware
11 3 (5.26%) Dell
11 3 (5.26%) Splunk
12 2 (3.51%) AlgoSec
12 2 (3.51%) Aruba
12 2 (3.51%) Juniper
12 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.51%) NETGEAR
12 2 (3.51%) Sophos