NX-OS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco NX-OS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 318 437
Rank change year-on-year +12 +119 +116
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 3 24 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.16% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 1.56% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 18
10th Percentile - £434 £435
25th Percentile - £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £498
90th Percentile £510 £675 £500
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% +8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,104 1,543 2,814
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.98% 10.51% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 998 1,857
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 106
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

NX-OS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NX-OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NX-OS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NX-OS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NX-OS.

NX-OS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NX-OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Arista
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
23 NX-OS jobs Nationwide