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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 601 581
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 +157
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Nexus 61 104 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 1.46% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 42 93 115
10th Percentile £25,750 £51,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,160 £60,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +29.03% -11.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,613 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +15.00%

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 9,538 7,134 7,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.08% 13.28% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 3,699 6,396
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -

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 11 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 11 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 +31 59 £57,500 -28.13% 28
UK excluding London +37 34 £57,500 -8.00% 30
London +12 21 £75,000 -10.18% 4
South East +26 16 £57,500 +4.55% 13
Midlands +29 11 £26,500 -60.74% 3
Work from Home +72 9 £75,000 -9.09% 29
East Midlands -3 6 £26,500 -44.21%
West Midlands +38 5 £75,000 -6.25% 3
North of England +12 4 - - 3
North East +8 4 - - 1
East of England +16 2 £46,160 -48.71% 6
South West +2 1 £55,000 -18.52% 1

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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.28%) nginx
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (22.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 18 (29.51%) AWS
3 2 (3.28%) Dagster
3 2 (3.28%) GCP
3 2 (3.28%) Mimecast
3 2 (3.28%) Rubrik
3 2 (3.28%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 40 (65.57%) Firewall
2 34 (55.74%) LAN
3 29 (47.54%) Wireless
4 28 (45.90%) BGP
4 28 (45.90%) OSPF
4 28 (45.90%) WAN
5 26 (42.62%) Cisco ASA
6 22 (36.07%) Network Security
7 21 (34.43%) VPN
8 20 (32.79%) EIGRP
8 20 (32.79%) VLAN
9 17 (27.87%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (21.31%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (21.31%) WAAS
11 12 (19.67%) Cisco Wireless
12 11 (18.03%) SNMP
13 8 (13.11%) SD-WAN
14 7 (11.48%) TACACS
15 6 (9.84%) HSRP
15 6 (9.84%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.28%) Metadata
1 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.28%) MySQL
1 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.28%) GitLab
2 2 (3.28%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.28%) MLflow
General
1 14 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Marketing
4 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.64%) Electronics
8 1 (1.64%) Finance
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (65.57%) Network Engineer
2 20 (32.79%) Senior
3 19 (31.15%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) Lead
4 12 (19.67%) Network Team Leader
4 12 (19.67%) Team Leader
5 6 (9.84%) Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Help Desk Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Lead Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Cisco Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Network Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.28%) Kafka
2 2 (3.28%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.28%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.15%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.28%) IoT
2 2 (3.28%) MPEG
2 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.28%) Robotics
3 1 (1.64%) CCTV
3 1 (1.64%) FMCG
3 1 (1.64%) PKI
3 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
1 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Customer Service
1 17 (27.87%) Root Cause Analysis
2 14 (22.95%) Load Balancing
3 13 (21.31%) Computer Science
3 13 (21.31%) Kalman Filter
4 11 (18.03%) Problem Management
5 10 (16.39%) Observability
6 8 (13.11%) Decision-Making
6 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (11.48%) Change Management
7 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
7 7 (11.48%) Systems Analysis
8 6 (9.84%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (9.84%) Break/Fix
8 6 (9.84%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (9.84%) High Availability
8 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.84%) Service Management
8 6 (9.84%) Time Management
8 6 (9.84%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) Python
2 2 (3.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 46 (75.41%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (65.57%) CCNP
3 15 (24.59%) Degree
4 14 (22.95%) CCIE
5 13 (21.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (16.39%) CCNA
7 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
7 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.64%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.64%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) ProxySG
2 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.92%) Firmware
4 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.28%) Docker
4 2 (3.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (3.28%) NFS
4 2 (3.28%) pfSense
4 2 (3.28%) Squid
4 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Ansible
1 6 (9.84%) FortiGate
2 4 (6.56%) VxRail
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) Argo
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (42.62%) Fortinet
3 19 (31.15%) SolarWinds
4 16 (26.23%) Palo Alto
5 15 (24.59%) CheckPoint
6 14 (22.95%) Infoblox
6 14 (22.95%) Meraki
7 13 (21.31%) F5
7 13 (21.31%) Motorola
8 11 (18.03%) Blue Coat
9 6 (9.84%) ServiceNow
10 4 (6.56%) VMware
11 3 (4.92%) Dell
11 3 (4.92%) Juniper
11 3 (4.92%) Splunk
12 2 (3.28%) Aruba
12 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.28%) NETGEAR
12 2 (3.28%) Sonatype
12 2 (3.28%) Sophos