Cisco NX-OS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NX-OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NX-OS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 670 775
Rank change year-on-year +116 +105 -92
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 32 23 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.040% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.32% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 67
10th Percentile £390 £445 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +3.21%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £550
90th Percentile £550 £648 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -19.00% +25.00% +19.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NX-OS 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 5,481 7,173 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 4,651 6,275
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 474 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NX-OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NX-OS.

Daily rate trend for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NX-OS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NX-OS within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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 +109 25 £488 -22.31% 5
London +120 20 £488 -22.62% 1
Work from Home +119 16 £475 -1.30% 2
UK excluding London +72 8 £506 -19.00% 5
South East +13 5 £550 -
Scotland - 3 £438 - 1

NX-OS
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 1 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 23 (71.88%) Firewall
2 16 (50.00%) BGP
3 15 (46.88%) OSPF
4 12 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (34.38%) LAN
5 11 (34.38%) VPN
6 8 (25.00%) WAN
7 6 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (18.75%) SD-WAN
8 5 (15.63%) FabricPath
8 5 (15.63%) MPLS
9 4 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (12.50%) DMZ
9 4 (12.50%) Ethernet
9 4 (12.50%) HSRP
9 4 (12.50%) IPsec
9 4 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
10 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
10 3 (9.38%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (53.13%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) IP Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Change Management
1 7 (21.88%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Agile
3 4 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 3 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (9.38%) Kanban
4 3 (9.38%) Network Design
4 3 (9.38%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (6.25%) Analytics
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.25%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.25%) Project Planning
5 2 (6.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.25%) Scrum
5 2 (6.25%) Time Management
5 2 (6.25%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (3.13%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (3.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) CCNP
1 12 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (25.00%) CCIE
3 7 (21.88%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Ansible
1 3 (9.38%) Netcool
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) F5
3 11 (34.38%) Fortinet
4 5 (15.63%) Nokia
5 4 (12.50%) Arista
5 4 (12.50%) VMware
6 3 (9.38%) CheckPoint
6 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
6 3 (9.38%) IBM
6 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
6 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.25%) Juniper