NX-OS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco NX-OS
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring NX-OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.059% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £550

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

NX-OS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 275 273 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.19% 21.02% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 124 275
10th Percentile £255 £256 £205
25th Percentile £329 £398 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 20
10th Percentile £17.90 £19.12 £24.48
25th Percentile £30.18 £20.04 £67.72
Median hourly rate £71.33 £21.83 £83.77
Median % change year-on-year +226.75% -73.94% +49.58%
75th Percentile £83.00 £23.37 £87.53
90th Percentile £89.10 £24.14 -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -22.05% +9.75% +26.56%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NX-OS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

NX-OS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

NX-OS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NX-OS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NX-OS

NX-OS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 1 £500 -
NX-OS
South East

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SIGTRAN
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto