Cisco NX-OS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NX-OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NX-OS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 901 913
Rank change year-on-year +211 +12 +270
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 21 9 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.009% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.067% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £52,625 - £56,250
25th Percentile £58,625 £43,421 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,225 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.59% -41.03% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £45,028 £93,750
90th Percentile £85,625 - £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,250 £44,225 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.93% -19.59% +0.92%

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 9,795 13,485 15,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 13.20% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,243 9,407 7,838
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,970
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,654
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,586 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NX-OS.

Salary trend for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NX-OS over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +171 20 £75,000 +69.59% 20
London +135 18 £76,250 - 8
Work from Home +132 12 £71,250 - 2
UK excluding London +192 3 £55,250 +24.93% 15
South East - 1 £58,000 - 8
South West - 1 £52,500 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) AWS Direct Connect
3 10 (47.62%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (85.71%) BGP
1 18 (85.71%) VPN
2 17 (80.95%) WAN
3 16 (76.19%) Firewall
4 15 (71.43%) Cisco ASA
4 15 (71.43%) OSPF
5 14 (66.67%) WLAN
6 13 (61.90%) IPsec
6 13 (61.90%) MPLS
6 13 (61.90%) SD-WAN
7 11 (52.38%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (47.62%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (47.62%) LAN
8 10 (47.62%) VXLAN
8 10 (47.62%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (28.57%) Network Security
11 5 (23.81%) NetScaler
12 2 (9.52%) Multicast
12 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Network Operations Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Data Centre Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Data Network Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Infoblox Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Jinja
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (90.48%) Data Centre
2 13 (61.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Change Management
2 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Cloud Security
4 9 (42.86%) Runbook
5 8 (38.10%) Network Architecture
5 8 (38.10%) Network Segmentation
5 8 (38.10%) Process Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (23.81%) Data Centre Operations
8 4 (19.05%) DevOps
8 4 (19.05%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) Agile
9 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
10 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
10 2 (9.52%) Network Design
10 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
10 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (23.81%) CCNP
3 4 (19.05%) CCNA
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 3 (14.29%) CCIE
4 3 (14.29%) CCSA
4 3 (14.29%) CCSE
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 15 (71.43%) CheckPoint
2 15 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 13 (61.90%) Dynatrace
4 10 (47.62%) Infoblox
5 9 (42.86%) Fortinet
6 8 (38.10%) Meraki
7 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
8 2 (9.52%) Arista
8 2 (9.52%) Juniper
9 1 (4.76%) Broadcom
9 1 (4.76%) F5
9 1 (4.76%) Google
9 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto