Cisco Nexus Jobs

Cisco Nexus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cisco Nexus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco Nexus over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 824 620
Rank change year-on-year +174 -204 +229
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Nexus 61 86 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.084% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.62% 0.64% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 56 168
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £71,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +50.94% +6.00% -2.91%

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 9,795 13,485 15,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 13.20% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,243 9,407 7,838
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,970
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,654
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,586 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

Cisco Nexus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Nexus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Nexus.

Salary trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 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 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +144 57 £80,000 +39.13% 41
UK excluding London +183 39 £80,000 +50.94% 23
London +112 21 £80,000 +23.08% 23
North of England +46 20 £80,000 - 4
Yorkshire +61 14 £80,000 - 4
Work from Home +99 12 £65,000 +6.56% 18
South West +115 5 £55,000 +10.00% 6
South East +84 5 £52,500 -0.94% 5
North West - 4 £80,000 -
Scotland +120 3 £80,000 +25.98% 4
West Midlands +59 3 £80,000 +93.94% 3
Midlands +55 3 £80,000 +93.94% 4
East of England +45 3 £90,000 -
North East - 2 £80,000 -

Cisco Nexus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) Apache
1 3 (4.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.64%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (9.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) Azure
2 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (3.28%) GCP
4 2 (3.28%) GitHub
5 1 (1.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (67.21%) Firewall
2 35 (57.38%) LAN
3 32 (52.46%) Wireless
4 22 (36.07%) BGP
4 22 (36.07%) VPN
5 21 (34.43%) OSPF
5 21 (34.43%) WAN
6 14 (22.95%) Cisco ISE
6 14 (22.95%) DNS
7 11 (18.03%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (16.39%) BIG-IP
8 10 (16.39%) Network Security
8 10 (16.39%) SD-WAN
9 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
10 8 (13.11%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (13.11%) IPsec
11 7 (11.48%) VLAN
11 7 (11.48%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (11.48%) WLAN
12 6 (9.84%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.56%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.92%) Police
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Local Government
4 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (52.46%) Network Engineer
2 29 (47.54%) Senior
3 18 (29.51%) Consultant
3 18 (29.51%) Network Consultant
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Consultant
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Network Consultant
4 8 (13.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Presales Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Presales Network Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.28%) LDAP
2 2 (3.28%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) XMPP
3 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.92%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.92%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.28%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 2 (3.28%) Replication
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Solaris
5 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Migration
2 14 (22.95%) Mentoring
3 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.03%) Task Automation
5 8 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (11.48%) Network Architecture
7 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (9.84%) High Availability
7 6 (9.84%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
7 6 (9.84%) Runbook
7 6 (9.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (8.20%) Network Design
8 5 (8.20%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (6.56%) Service Delivery
10 3 (4.92%) Asset Management
10 3 (4.92%) Change Control
10 3 (4.92%) Identity Management
10 3 (4.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Python
2 4 (6.56%) Bash
3 2 (3.28%) Java
3 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.28%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 48 (78.69%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (73.77%) CCNP
3 25 (40.98%) CCIE
4 14 (22.95%) CCNA
5 9 (14.75%) Degree
6 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (9.84%) JNCIA
6 6 (9.84%) JNCIS
6 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
6 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
7 4 (6.56%) CCDP
8 3 (4.92%) CCDA
9 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.28%) KVM
3 2 (3.28%) NFS
3 2 (3.28%) SRDF
3 2 (3.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.28%) Xen
4 1 (1.64%) Firmware
4 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (32.79%) Ansible
2 13 (21.31%) Terraform
3 5 (8.20%) Puppet
4 4 (6.56%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.92%) CASB
5 3 (4.92%) Graylog
5 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.92%) Nagios
5 3 (4.92%) Rundeck
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) Cisco
2 19 (31.15%) F5
3 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
3 16 (26.23%) Palo Alto
4 11 (18.03%) Juniper
5 9 (14.75%) Fortinet
6 8 (13.11%) Meraki
6 8 (13.11%) SolarWinds
7 7 (11.48%) Arista
8 6 (9.84%) VMware
9 5 (8.20%) NetApp
9 5 (8.20%) Zscaler
10 4 (6.56%) CheckPoint
10 4 (6.56%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (6.56%) Riverbed
11 3 (4.92%) Aerohive Networks
11 3 (4.92%) Citrix
11 3 (4.92%) Ekahau
11 3 (4.92%) PagerDuty
11 3 (4.92%) Pure Storage