NX-OS Job Trends in England

Cisco NX-OS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring NX-OS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 662 642
Rank change year-on-year +74 -20 +271
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 21 12 36
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.040% 0.025% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.18% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 20
10th Percentile £50,175 £54,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,688 £50,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £80,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +3.90% +10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile - - £92,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £80,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% +8.11% -1.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

NX-OS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,834 6,488 6,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.81% 13.44% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,467 3,394 5,475
10th Percentile £25,875 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,525 £83,750
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NX-OS job vacancy trend in England

NX-OS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NX-OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NX-OS

NX-OS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NX-OS in England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NX-OS in England

NX-OS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NX-OS within the England region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 12 £87,500 +9.38% 2
South East - 9 £55,000 - 4
NX-OS
UK

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Direct Connect
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
1 4 (19.05%) SaaS
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (61.90%) Cisco Firepower
2 13 (61.90%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (57.14%) LAN
4 9 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (42.86%) Junos
5 8 (38.10%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (38.10%) VPN
5 8 (38.10%) WAN
5 8 (38.10%) WLAN
6 7 (33.33%) BGP
6 7 (33.33%) OSPF
7 4 (19.05%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (19.05%) IPsec
7 4 (19.05%) MPLS
7 4 (19.05%) NetScaler
7 4 (19.05%) SD-WAN
7 4 (19.05%) VXLAN
7 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Network Operations Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 9 (42.86%) PKI
3 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Change Management
2 9 (42.86%) ITSM
3 8 (38.10%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (38.10%) Runbook
3 8 (38.10%) Service Management
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Inventory Management
5 4 (19.05%) Load Balancing
5 4 (19.05%) Migration
5 4 (19.05%) Network Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
6 3 (14.29%) Change Control
6 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Validation
7 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.76%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (4.76%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) CCIE
2 4 (19.05%) CCNP
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Firmware
2 9 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (61.90%) SolarWinds
3 12 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 9 (42.86%) Broadcom
4 9 (42.86%) Juniper
5 8 (38.10%) Fortinet
6 4 (19.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (19.05%) F5
6 4 (19.05%) Meraki
6 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow