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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 726 688
Rank change year-on-year +94 -38 +380
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 32 13 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.019% 0.078%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.17% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 26
10th Percentile £51,875 £54,063 £48,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,469 £50,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £80,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +8.11% +18.40%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £91,250
90th Percentile - - £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -5.66%

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 6,191 7,796 8,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 11.50% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,161 4,008 6,519
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +130 29 £58,000 -27.50% 18
London +64 20 £87,500 +9.38% 9
UK excluding London +85 12 £55,000 - 14
South East - 9 £55,000 - 12
Work from Home +63 7 £87,500 +29.63% 2
Scotland +1 3 - -

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 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) AWS
1 4 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (71.88%) Firewall
2 18 (56.25%) BGP
2 18 (56.25%) Cisco IOS
3 15 (46.88%) OSPF
4 13 (40.63%) LAN
5 12 (37.50%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (34.38%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (34.38%) WAN
7 9 (28.13%) Junos
7 9 (28.13%) VPN
7 9 (28.13%) VXLAN
8 8 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (25.00%) WLAN
9 7 (21.88%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (18.75%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
11 4 (12.50%) IPsec
11 4 (12.50%) MPLS
11 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
12 3 (9.38%) IOS XR
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (96.88%) Network Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Network Operations Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior
7 4 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 23 (71.88%) Data Centre
2 9 (28.13%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Change Management
2 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (40.63%) Migration
3 11 (34.38%) Network Architecture
4 9 (28.13%) ITSM
5 8 (25.00%) Service Management
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) Runbook
7 6 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Customer Experience
7 6 (18.75%) Inventory Management
7 6 (18.75%) Load Balancing
7 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.63%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (15.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) CCNP
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (28.13%) CCIE
2 9 (28.13%) DV Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CCNA
4 2 (6.25%) CCSA
4 2 (6.25%) CCSE
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Firmware
2 9 (28.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Ansible
1 9 (28.13%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) CheckPoint
3 13 (40.63%) SolarWinds
4 9 (28.13%) Broadcom
4 9 (28.13%) Juniper
5 7 (21.88%) Fortinet
6 6 (18.75%) F5
7 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
8 3 (9.38%) Arista
8 3 (9.38%) Meraki
9 2 (6.25%) Infoblox
9 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow