Cisco NX-OS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NX-OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NX-OS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 693 779
Rank change year-on-year +125 +86 -114
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 30 26 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.043% 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.35% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 62
10th Percentile £438 £425 £313
25th Percentile £472 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +5.41% +3.58%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £550
90th Percentile £550 £645 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £588 £451
% change year-on-year -13.83% +30.19% +7.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NX-OS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NX-OS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NX-OS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +142 24 £488 -22.00% 10
London +118 19 £488 -22.62% 2
Work from Home +129 15 £481 - 2
UK excluding London +64 8 £506 -13.83% 8
South East +27 5 £550 +10.00%
Scotland - 3 £438 -

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 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 22 (73.33%) Firewall
2 15 (50.00%) BGP
3 14 (46.67%) OSPF
4 11 (36.67%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (36.67%) VPN
5 10 (33.33%) LAN
6 7 (23.33%) WAN
7 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (16.67%) FabricPath
7 5 (16.67%) MPLS
7 5 (16.67%) SD-WAN
8 4 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (13.33%) DMZ
8 4 (13.33%) Ethernet
8 4 (13.33%) HSRP
8 4 (13.33%) IPsec
8 4 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (10.00%) Internet
9 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Migration
2 6 (20.00%) Change Management
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (10.00%) Kanban
5 3 (10.00%) Network Design
5 3 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (6.67%) Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.67%) Time Management
6 2 (6.67%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (3.33%) High Availability
7 1 (3.33%) Incident Response
7 1 (3.33%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (3.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (3.33%) Roadmaps
7 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (3.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) CCNP
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (23.33%) CCIE
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Netcool
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (36.67%) F5
3 10 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 4 (13.33%) Arista
4 4 (13.33%) Nokia
4 4 (13.33%) VMware
5 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.00%) IBM
5 3 (10.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.67%) Juniper