NX-OS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco NX-OS
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring NX-OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.44% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £495 -
% change year-on-year -14.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 114 78 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.59% 14.77% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 35 69
10th Percentile £313 £255 £402
25th Percentile £370 £394 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% -7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £750 £616
North West median daily rate £449 £498 £493
% change year-on-year -9.85% +0.91% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.06 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.10%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

NX-OS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

NX-OS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

NX-OS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 2 - - 1
Chester - 1 £425 - 3
NX-OS
North West

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCDP
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Ekahau