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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 745 635 866
Rank change year-on-year -110 +231 -25
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 16 36 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.073% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.50% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 2
10th Percentile £38,219 £51,938 -
25th Percentile £91,250 £52,500 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £58,000 £44,225
Median % change year-on-year +72.41% +31.15% -40.24%
75th Percentile £107,500 £80,313 £45,028
90th Percentile - £89,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,347 £55,000 £44,225
% change year-on-year -30.28% +24.37% -1.72%

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 7,315 7,193 11,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 14.58% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,716 4,156 8,174
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -7.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,047 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.70% -15.45% -

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 20 July 2026.

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 20 July 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 -79 15 £100,000 +72.41%
Work from Home -12 14 £102,500 +13.89%
London -37 14 £102,500 +24.24%
UK excluding London -91 2 £38,347 -30.28%
Scotland +12 1 £37,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 -
Midlands - 1 £39,194 -

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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
1 10 (62.50%) AWS Direct Connect
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) SaaS
2 8 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (81.25%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (81.25%) MPLS
4 11 (68.75%) VPN
4 11 (68.75%) WAN
4 11 (68.75%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (62.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (62.50%) IPsec
5 10 (62.50%) SD-WAN
5 10 (62.50%) VXLAN
5 10 (62.50%) WLAN
6 9 (56.25%) BGP
6 9 (56.25%) LAN
6 9 (56.25%) OSPF
7 8 (50.00%) NetScaler
8 4 (25.00%) VLAN
9 3 (18.75%) BIG-IP
9 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (18.75%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Rocky
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Network Segmentation
2 8 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Runbook
6 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) High Availability
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
9 1 (6.25%) Server Management
9 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CCNA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CCIE
2 2 (12.50%) CCNP
2 2 (12.50%) CCSA
2 2 (12.50%) CCSE
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (87.50%) CheckPoint
2 14 (87.50%) Meraki
3 10 (62.50%) Dynatrace
3 10 (62.50%) SolarWinds
4 7 (43.75%) Fortinet
5 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (18.75%) F5
6 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
7 2 (12.50%) VMware
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
8 1 (6.25%) Red Hat