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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 776 643 802
Rank change year-on-year -133 +159 -41
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 13 38 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.076% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.52% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 2
10th Percentile £43,844 £51,938 -
25th Percentile £92,500 £52,500 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £58,000 £44,225
Median % change year-on-year +72.41% +31.15% -37.49%
75th Percentile £107,500 £80,313 £45,028
90th Percentile - £89,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,194 £55,000 £44,225
% change year-on-year -28.74% +24.37% -11.55%

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 7,523 7,344 9,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.94% 14.67% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,857 4,221 6,029
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -18.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% -

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 24 August 2026.

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 24 August 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 -116 13 £100,000 +72.41% 16
Work from Home -33 11 £100,000 +11.11% 5
London -55 10 £100,000 +21.21% 6
UK excluding London -105 3 £39,194 -28.74% 10
East Midlands - 3 £39,194 -
Midlands - 3 £39,194 - 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Direct Connect
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) SaaS
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 9 (69.23%) MPLS
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (53.85%) VXLAN
4 6 (46.15%) BGP
4 6 (46.15%) OSPF
5 5 (38.46%) LAN
5 5 (38.46%) Multicast
5 5 (38.46%) WAN
6 4 (30.77%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (30.77%) IPsec
6 4 (30.77%) NetScaler
6 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
6 4 (30.77%) VPN
6 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (30.77%) WLAN
7 3 (23.08%) BIG-IP
7 3 (23.08%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Law
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Network Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Jinja
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Project Delivery
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Network Segmentation
4 4 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
5 3 (23.08%) Availability Management
5 3 (23.08%) Culture Change
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Server Management
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (23.08%) CCIE
2 3 (23.08%) CCNA
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) MCSE
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (23.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) CheckPoint
2 7 (53.85%) Meraki
3 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
3 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
4 3 (23.08%) Arista
4 3 (23.08%) F5
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) FIS