NX-OS Job Trends

Cisco NX-OS
UK

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 650 814
Rank change year-on-year -1 +164 +140
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 30 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.020% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 4
10th Percentile £47,200 £54,375 £47,375
25th Percentile £52,031 £64,688 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +45.45% -26.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £94,500 - £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year - +12.82% -25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,924 5,990 11,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 13.59% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,880 3,655 9,229
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £53,391 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +11.23% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £79,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +16.28% -4.44%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NX-OS job vacancy trend in the UK

NX-OS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NX-OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NX-OS

NX-OS
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NX-OS within the UK over the 6 months to 9 March 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
England +14 29 £58,000 -27.50% 3
London +29 19 £90,000 +12.50%
Work from Home +46 18 £90,000 +33.33%
UK excluding London +2 11 £55,000 - 3
South East - 10 £55,000 -
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
1 11 (36.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) SaaS
2 9 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) Firewall
2 23 (76.67%) Cisco ISE
3 21 (70.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 18 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (53.33%) VPN
5 16 (53.33%) WAN
6 15 (50.00%) LAN
6 15 (50.00%) WLAN
7 14 (46.67%) BGP
7 14 (46.67%) OSPF
8 13 (43.33%) MPLS
9 12 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
9 12 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (36.67%) IPsec
10 11 (36.67%) SD-WAN
10 11 (36.67%) VXLAN
11 10 (33.33%) Junos
12 9 (30.00%) NetScaler
13 3 (10.00%) VLAN
13 3 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Advertising
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Network Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Data Centre
2 10 (33.33%) PKI
3 9 (30.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) CentOS
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Rocky
1 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Change Management
2 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (46.67%) Kalman Filter
2 14 (46.67%) Runbook
3 11 (36.67%) Network Segmentation
4 10 (33.33%) ITSM
5 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Zero Trust
6 8 (26.67%) Service Management
7 5 (16.67%) Network Architecture
8 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
9 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
9 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (6.67%) High Availability
9 2 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
9 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement
9 2 (6.67%) Validation
10 1 (3.33%) Incident Management
10 1 (3.33%) Migration
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) CCIE
2 3 (10.00%) CCNP
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) CCNA
3 2 (6.67%) CCSA
3 2 (6.67%) CCSE
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Firmware
2 10 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (70.00%) SolarWinds
3 19 (63.33%) CheckPoint
4 16 (53.33%) Fortinet
5 14 (46.67%) Meraki
6 11 (36.67%) Dynatrace
7 10 (33.33%) Broadcom
7 10 (33.33%) Juniper
8 9 (30.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (10.00%) F5
10 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
11 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
11 1 (3.33%) VMware