NX-OS Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco NX-OS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring NX-OS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.28% 0.083% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.07% 0.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% - -
75th Percentile £438 £503 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £620 £525
% change year-on-year -15.32% +18.10% +10.53%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 290 295 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.31% 12.25% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 150 320
10th Percentile £147 £261 £325
25th Percentile £350 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £541 £647 £588
90th Percentile £680 £754 £649
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 10
10th Percentile - £25.43 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £37.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -16.60%
75th Percentile £41.94 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.25 £57.65 £49.35
England median hourly rate £39.66 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.85% +1.52% +37.68%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing NX-OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for NX-OS in the North West

NX-OS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

NX-OS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Cheshire - 3 £425 - 3
Merseyside - 2 - -
Manchester -2 1 - -
NX-OS
England

NX-OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) WLAN
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) MPLS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) RF Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Lisp
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCDP
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Ekahau
2 3 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Meraki
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Remedy
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow