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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 879 841
Rank change year-on-year +180 -38 +383
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 36 7 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.007% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.054% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 14
10th Percentile £51,938 - £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,421 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £44,225 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -40.24% +23.33%
75th Percentile £80,313 £45,028 £88,625
90th Percentile £89,875 - £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £44,225 £45,000
% change year-on-year +24.37% -1.72% -16.67%

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 12,109 12,990 13,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.16% 12.59% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,767 8,732 7,625
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% -7.50% -2.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £44,132 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.15% -1.93% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +178 33 £58,000 +31.15% 27
London +134 26 £82,500 - 11
Work from Home +116 14 £90,000 - 16
UK excluding London +163 10 £55,000 +24.37% 19
South East - 6 £56,500 - 10
Scotland +90 3 - -
South West - 1 £52,500 - 3

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 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) AWS
1 14 (38.89%) AWS Direct Connect
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (72.22%) BGP
1 26 (72.22%) Firewall
2 22 (61.11%) OSPF
3 21 (58.33%) WAN
4 19 (52.78%) VPN
5 17 (47.22%) Cisco IOS
6 16 (44.44%) Cisco ASA
6 16 (44.44%) Cisco Firepower
6 16 (44.44%) WLAN
7 15 (41.67%) Cisco ISE
7 15 (41.67%) LAN
7 15 (41.67%) VXLAN
8 14 (38.89%) IPsec
8 14 (38.89%) MPLS
8 14 (38.89%) SD-WAN
9 10 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (19.44%) Network Security
10 7 (19.44%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (16.67%) Junos
11 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (86.11%) Network Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Data Centre Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Data Network Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Infoblox Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (5.56%) Jinja
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (38.89%) Management Information System
3 6 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Change Management
2 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (36.11%) Network Architecture
4 11 (30.56%) Migration
4 11 (30.56%) Runbook
5 10 (27.78%) Cloud Security
6 9 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
6 9 (25.00%) Process Improvement
7 8 (22.22%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Agile
8 7 (19.44%) Kalman Filter
9 6 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (16.67%) Customer Experience
9 6 (16.67%) ITSM
9 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 6 (16.67%) Service Management
9 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (30.56%) CCNP
3 8 (22.22%) CCIE
4 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
5 6 (16.67%) Degree
5 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (13.89%) CCNA
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
7 4 (11.11%) CCSA
7 4 (11.11%) CCSE
8 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Firmware
2 6 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.89%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (55.56%) CheckPoint
2 20 (55.56%) SolarWinds
3 14 (38.89%) Dynatrace
4 11 (30.56%) Fortinet
5 10 (27.78%) Infoblox
6 9 (25.00%) Meraki
7 7 (19.44%) Juniper
8 6 (16.67%) Broadcom
9 4 (11.11%) Arista
9 4 (11.11%) F5
9 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.78%) Google
10 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto