Hybrid/Remote NX-OS Job Trends

Cisco NX-OS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NX-OS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 445 455
Rank change year-on-year +74 +10 +232
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 7 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.046% 0.029% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.22% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile - £54,750 -
25th Percentile £86,250 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £67,500 £55,300
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% +22.06% -26.27%
75th Percentile £89,063 £78,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £82,250 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% +8.11% -1.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,357 2,254 2,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.89% 13.13% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,296 2,414
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,147 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

NX-OS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NX-OS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NX-OS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NX-OS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NX-OS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NX-OS

NX-OS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (42.86%) IPsec
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) NetScaler
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Network Operations Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 7 (100.00%) Runbook
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Change Management
3 4 (57.14%) Network Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (42.86%) Dynatrace
2 3 (42.86%) Meraki
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds