NX-OS Contracts

Cisco NX-OS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NX-OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NX-OS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 570 687
Rank change year-on-year +75 +117 +98
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 24 30 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.069% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 21
10th Percentile £413 £438 £425
25th Percentile £450 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £555 £541 £500
90th Percentile £627 £550 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £506 £588
% change year-on-year -11.11% -13.83% +30.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 8 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 30 April 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
England +57 18 £475 -2.56% 12
London +28 12 £450 -7.69% 10
Work from Home +44 9 £500 +3.90% 5
UK excluding London +49 3 £450 -11.11% 2
West Midlands - 2 £556 -
Midlands - 2 £556 -
North West - 1 £425 -
North of England - 1 £425 - 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 4 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) BGP
1 14 (58.33%) Firewall
2 13 (54.17%) OSPF
3 8 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (29.17%) HSRP
4 7 (29.17%) Network Security
5 6 (25.00%) EIGRP
5 6 (25.00%) RIP
5 6 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (25.00%) VRRP
5 6 (25.00%) Wireshark
6 5 (20.83%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (16.67%) Multicast
7 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 4 (16.67%) VXLAN
7 4 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Network Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Design Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (29.17%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 6 (25.00%) Network Packet Capture
3 6 (25.00%) Password Management
3 6 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.33%) Network Design
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Agile
6 1 (4.17%) Change Control
6 1 (4.17%) Change Management
6 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.17%) High Availability
6 1 (4.17%) Migration
6 1 (4.17%) Network Management
6 1 (4.17%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) CCNP
1 16 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (33.33%) CCIE
3 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) CCIE Data Center
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) CCNA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 4 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (4.17%) Netcool
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Broadcom
4 4 (16.67%) F5
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.50%) Arista
5 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.17%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.17%) Riverbed
7 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.17%) Symantec
7 1 (4.17%) Zscaler