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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 787 735
Rank change year-on-year +150 -52 +424
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 39 9 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.012% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.096% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 27
10th Percentile £51,375 - £47,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,421 £54,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £44,225 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -40.24% +23.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £45,028 £92,500
90th Percentile £89,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £44,225 £50,600
% change year-on-year +24.37% -12.60% -8.00%

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 7,231 9,414 9,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 12.05% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,036 4,929 6,859
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,360 £27,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NX-OS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NX-OS 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 7 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 18 September 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 +138 36 £58,000 +31.15% 14
London +91 28 £82,500 - 2
Work from Home +83 14 £90,000 - 1
UK excluding London +119 11 £55,000 +24.37% 13
South East - 7 £55,000 - 4
Scotland +44 3 - - 1
South West - 1 £52,500 -

NX-OS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
1 14 (35.90%) AWS Direct Connect
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 29 (74.36%) Firewall
2 28 (71.79%) BGP
3 24 (61.54%) OSPF
4 21 (53.85%) WAN
5 19 (48.72%) VPN
6 18 (46.15%) Cisco IOS
7 17 (43.59%) Cisco Firepower
7 17 (43.59%) LAN
8 16 (41.03%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (41.03%) Cisco ISE
8 16 (41.03%) WLAN
9 15 (38.46%) VXLAN
10 14 (35.90%) IPsec
10 14 (35.90%) MPLS
10 14 (35.90%) SD-WAN
11 10 (25.64%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (17.95%) Junos
12 7 (17.95%) Network Security
12 7 (17.95%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (87.18%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Data Centre Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Data Network Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Infoblox Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Lead
6 5 (12.82%) Senior
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) Jinja
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (82.05%) Data Centre
2 14 (35.90%) Management Information System
3 7 (17.95%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Change Management
2 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (33.33%) Migration
3 13 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 11 (28.21%) Runbook
5 10 (25.64%) Cloud Security
6 9 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
6 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
7 8 (20.51%) DevOps
8 7 (17.95%) Agile
8 7 (17.95%) ITSM
8 7 (17.95%) Kalman Filter
9 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Customer Experience
9 6 (15.38%) Load Balancing
9 6 (15.38%) Service Management
9 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (33.33%) CCNP
3 10 (25.64%) CCIE
4 8 (20.51%) Degree
4 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
5 7 (17.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (12.82%) CCNA
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (10.26%) CCSA
7 4 (10.26%) CCSE
8 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Firmware
2 7 (17.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) vCenter Server
3 5 (12.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (56.41%) CheckPoint
3 21 (53.85%) SolarWinds
4 14 (35.90%) Dynatrace
5 11 (28.21%) Fortinet
6 10 (25.64%) Infoblox
7 9 (23.08%) Meraki
8 8 (20.51%) Juniper
9 7 (17.95%) Broadcom
10 6 (15.38%) F5
11 4 (10.26%) Arista
11 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
12 1 (2.56%) Google
12 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto