Cisco Nexus Job Trends

Cisco Nexus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 605 615
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +133
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Nexus 60 102 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.62% 1.42% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 41 89 114
10th Percentile £25,750 £52,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,160 £71,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +29.03% -11.43%
75th Percentile £76,000 £85,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £80,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.13% +45.45% +10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,727 7,161 9,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.56% 13.48% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,947 3,729 7,473
10th Percentile £25,400 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,250 £32,750
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 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £44,943
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.25% -0.13%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Nexus job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Nexus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +25 59 £58,750 -26.56% 31
UK excluding London +22 35 £57,500 -28.13% 33
London +13 19 £75,000 -10.18% 4
South East +33 16 £57,500 +4.55% 10
Midlands +22 10 £26,500 -60.74% 3
Work from Home +59 8 £75,875 -8.03% 30
East Midlands +2 6 £26,500 -51.82% 1
North East +4 5 - - 1
North of England +4 5 - - 4
West Midlands +38 4 £75,000 -6.25% 2
East of England +23 2 £46,160 -48.71% 7
South West +5 2 £55,000 -31.25% 4

Cisco Nexus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.33%) nginx
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (21.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) Dagster
5 1 (1.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 37 (61.67%) Firewall
2 33 (55.00%) LAN
3 29 (48.33%) Wireless
4 28 (46.67%) BGP
4 28 (46.67%) OSPF
5 27 (45.00%) WAN
6 26 (43.33%) Cisco ASA
7 22 (36.67%) VLAN
8 21 (35.00%) Network Security
9 19 (31.67%) EIGRP
10 18 (30.00%) VPN
11 13 (21.67%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (20.00%) WAAS
13 11 (18.33%) Cisco Wireless
14 10 (16.67%) SNMP
15 9 (15.00%) SD-WAN
16 8 (13.33%) Wireless Security
17 5 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
18 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.33%) Metadata
1 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.33%) MySQL
1 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (3.33%) Agriculture
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (63.33%) Network Engineer
2 19 (31.67%) Senior
3 18 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (21.67%) Lead
4 13 (21.67%) Network Team Leader
4 13 (21.67%) Team Leader
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Network Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.33%) Kafka
2 2 (3.33%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.33%) IoT
2 2 (3.33%) MPEG
2 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Robotics
3 1 (1.67%) CCTV
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.67%) FMCG
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
3 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 14 (23.33%) Customer Service
3 13 (21.67%) Load Balancing
4 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 12 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 11 (18.33%) Problem Management
6 10 (16.67%) Observability
6 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 8 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 8 (13.33%) WAN Optimisation
9 7 (11.67%) Change Management
10 6 (10.00%) Break/Fix
10 6 (10.00%) Service Management
11 5 (8.33%) Decision-Making
12 4 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (6.67%) High Availability
12 4 (6.67%) ITIL
12 4 (6.67%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Python
2 1 (1.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 44 (73.33%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (63.33%) CCNP
3 14 (23.33%) CCIE
4 13 (21.67%) Degree
5 12 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (13.33%) CCNA
7 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
8 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.67%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.67%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.67%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.67%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) ProxySG
2 3 (5.00%) Firmware
2 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.33%) Docker
3 2 (3.33%) NFS
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (1.67%) pfSense
4 1 (1.67%) Squid
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Ansible
2 6 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (6.67%) Terraform
4 3 (5.00%) VxRail
5 2 (3.33%) Argo
5 2 (3.33%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 19 (31.67%) SolarWinds
4 17 (28.33%) Palo Alto
5 15 (25.00%) Meraki
6 14 (23.33%) CheckPoint
7 13 (21.67%) Infoblox
8 12 (20.00%) F5
8 12 (20.00%) Motorola
9 10 (16.67%) Blue Coat
10 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
11 4 (6.67%) VMware
12 2 (3.33%) AlgoSec
12 2 (3.33%) Aruba
12 2 (3.33%) Dell
12 2 (3.33%) Juniper
12 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.33%) NETGEAR
12 2 (3.33%) Sonatype
12 2 (3.33%) Splunk