NX-OS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cisco NX-OS
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring NX-OS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 11 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.35% 0.043% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £662 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% - -
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £608 - -
England median daily rate £525 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 402 322 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.91% 13.95% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 173 289
10th Percentile £163 £166 £220
25th Percentile £290 £255 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -3.95%
75th Percentile £508 £583 £550
90th Percentile £582 £707 £675
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 28
10th Percentile £16.20 £13.40 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.28 £20.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +5.13% -5.15%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £34.20 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

NX-OS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

NX-OS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

NX-OS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NX-OS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NX-OS in the Midlands

NX-OS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
West Midlands -20 11 £608 -8.09%
NX-OS
England

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) BGP
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco ISE
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Wireless
1 7 (63.64%) DHCP
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) VXLAN
1 7 (63.64%) Wireless
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
1 7 (63.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) RF Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Wireless Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) SCADA
4 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) User Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Network Packet Capture
2 3 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (27.27%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CCNP
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Ekahau
2 7 (63.64%) Remedy
2 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) Broadcom
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Arista
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet