Cisco Nexus Contracts

Cisco Nexus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Nexus skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 529 629
Rank change year-on-year +117 +100 -77
Contract jobs citing Cisco Nexus 164 154 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.02% 2.16% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 85 133
10th Percentile £300 £355 £385
25th Percentile £350 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £396 £425 £511
% change year-on-year -6.82% -16.83% +20.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £62.62 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.62 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco Nexus is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Nexus over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Nexus in the UK

Cisco Nexus
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Nexus within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 150 £433 -13.50% 19
UK excluding London +55 96 £396 -6.82% 19
London +92 53 £475 -24.00% 10
Work from Home +79 48 £400 -11.11% 11
South East +35 40 £375 -16.67% 4
North of England +32 30 £396 +2.19%
North West +30 22 £416 +28.11%
Midlands +30 17 £600 +41.18%
West Midlands +18 12 - -
South West -3 10 £450 -5.26% 3
East of England +4 7 £375 -21.05% 1
North East - 6 £375 -
East Midlands +15 5 £600 +26.32%
Yorkshire +12 2 £205 -54.44%

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 5 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (2.44%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (8.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.46%) AWS
2 21 (12.80%) Azure
3 9 (5.49%) GCP
4 5 (3.05%) OCI
5 4 (2.44%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.83%) Datadog
6 3 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.83%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 98 (59.76%) Firewall
2 49 (29.88%) Cisco ASA
2 49 (29.88%) LAN
3 46 (28.05%) OSPF
3 46 (28.05%) Wireless
4 45 (27.44%) WAN
5 43 (26.22%) BGP
6 40 (24.39%) VPN
7 36 (21.95%) SD-WAN
8 33 (20.12%) MPLS
9 30 (18.29%) DNS
10 26 (15.85%) DMZ
11 25 (15.24%) DHCP
12 20 (12.20%) Cisco IOS
12 20 (12.20%) EIGRP
13 19 (11.59%) IPsec
14 17 (10.37%) VXLAN
15 16 (9.76%) Network Security
15 16 (9.76%) VLAN
16 14 (8.54%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.83%) GitLab
3 2 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 45 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.17%) Finance
3 26 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.02%) Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Investment Banking
6 13 (7.93%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.49%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.66%) Retail
9 4 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (82.32%) Network Engineer
2 20 (12.20%) Cisco Engineer
2 20 (12.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 17 (10.37%) Senior
4 13 (7.93%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 13 (7.93%) Juniper Engineer
4 13 (7.93%) Network Support
4 13 (7.93%) Network Support Engineer
4 13 (7.93%) Support Engineer
5 11 (6.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (6.10%) Architect
7 9 (5.49%) Network Architect
7 9 (5.49%) Network Operations Engineer
7 9 (5.49%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.88%) Consultant
8 8 (4.88%) Network Consultant
9 7 (4.27%) Data Network Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Data Centre Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.10%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.44%) Web Services
3 3 (1.83%) EDI
4 2 (1.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (38.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.66%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.05%) Clustering
3 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.44%) PKI
4 4 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.83%) CCTV
5 3 (1.83%) SCADA
5 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.98%) Linux
2 10 (6.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.51%) ITSM
2 29 (17.68%) High Availability
3 23 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (10.37%) Design Patterns
5 16 (9.76%) Change Control
6 15 (9.15%) Network Design
7 14 (8.54%) Load Balancing
8 13 (7.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (7.93%) Computer Science
9 12 (7.32%) Agile
10 11 (6.71%) DevOps
10 11 (6.71%) Network Architecture
10 11 (6.71%) Network Monitoring
11 10 (6.10%) Change Management
12 9 (5.49%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (5.49%) Network Virtualisation
12 9 (5.49%) Project Delivery
13 8 (4.88%) Problem Management
13 8 (4.88%) Roadmaps
14 7 (4.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.85%) Python
2 8 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (1.22%) C#
3 2 (1.22%) Go
3 2 (1.22%) Java
3 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (52.44%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (42.68%) CCNP
3 41 (25.00%) CCNA
4 24 (14.63%) Security Cleared
5 18 (10.98%) CCIE
6 16 (9.76%) Degree
7 13 (7.93%) AWS Certification
8 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
9 6 (3.66%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.66%) JNCIS
10 5 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.05%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.05%) CCDP
10 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.44%) CCIE Data Center
12 3 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (9.15%) VMware NSX
3 6 (3.66%) Firmware
3 6 (3.66%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.66%) KVM
3 6 (3.66%) vSphere
4 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (9.76%) Ansible
2 12 (7.32%) Terraform
3 8 (4.88%) FortiGate
3 8 (4.88%) SolarWinds Orion
4 6 (3.66%) Puppet
5 5 (3.05%) OpenView
6 3 (1.83%) Kibana
7 2 (1.22%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.22%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.61%) Netcool
8 1 (0.61%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.61%) SCCM
8 1 (0.61%) SCOM
8 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 160 (97.56%) Cisco
2 60 (36.59%) F5
3 51 (31.10%) Palo Alto
4 38 (23.17%) Fortinet
5 37 (22.56%) CheckPoint
6 36 (21.95%) Juniper
7 20 (12.20%) Infoblox
8 18 (10.98%) SolarWinds
8 18 (10.98%) VMware
9 14 (8.54%) Blue Coat
10 12 (7.32%) Microsoft
11 11 (6.71%) Aruba
12 9 (5.49%) Arista
13 8 (4.88%) Splunk
13 8 (4.88%) Zscaler
14 6 (3.66%) Meraki
15 5 (3.05%) Google
16 3 (1.83%) AlgoSec
16 3 (1.83%) Nokia
16 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow