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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 696 762
Rank change year-on-year +63 +66 +194
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 28 12 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.023% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.17% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 17
10th Percentile £46,350 £54,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £64,688 £50,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,300
% change year-on-year - -0.54% -14.92%

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 9,731 6,970 10,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 13.49% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,921 3,617 8,467
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +74 27 £58,000 -27.50% 5
London +67 17 £88,750 +10.94% 3
Work from Home +65 14 £88,750 +31.48% 3
UK excluding London +43 11 £55,000 - 4
South East - 10 £55,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 1

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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) AWS Direct Connect
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) SaaS
2 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) Firewall
2 19 (67.86%) Cisco ISE
3 18 (64.29%) Cisco Firepower
4 14 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (50.00%) LAN
5 13 (46.43%) VPN
5 13 (46.43%) WAN
6 12 (42.86%) BGP
6 12 (42.86%) OSPF
6 12 (42.86%) WLAN
7 11 (39.29%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (35.71%) Junos
9 9 (32.14%) MPLS
9 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (28.57%) IPsec
10 8 (28.57%) SD-WAN
10 8 (28.57%) VXLAN
11 6 (21.43%) NetScaler
12 3 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (10.71%) Wireless
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (96.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Network Operations Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Project Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 10 (35.71%) PKI
3 6 (21.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) CentOS
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Rocky
1 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Change Management
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (39.29%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (39.29%) Runbook
3 10 (35.71%) ITSM
4 8 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
4 8 (28.57%) Service Management
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Zero Trust
6 5 (17.86%) Network Architecture
6 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
8 3 (10.71%) Change Control
8 3 (10.71%) Inventory Management
8 3 (10.71%) Load Balancing
8 3 (10.71%) Migration
9 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) DV Cleared
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) CCIE
2 5 (17.86%) CCNP
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) CCNA
3 2 (7.14%) CCSA
3 2 (7.14%) CCSE
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Firmware
2 10 (35.71%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Cisco
2 18 (64.29%) SolarWinds
3 17 (60.71%) CheckPoint
4 13 (46.43%) Fortinet
5 10 (35.71%) Broadcom
5 10 (35.71%) Juniper
5 10 (35.71%) Meraki
6 8 (28.57%) Dynatrace
7 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
8 4 (14.29%) F5
9 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
9 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
9 1 (3.57%) VMware