Cisco NX-OS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NX-OS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NX-OS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 901 1181
Rank change year-on-year +15 +280 -269
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 9 51 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.052% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.067% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 31
10th Percentile - £56,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £43,421 £66,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,225 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.03% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £45,028 £93,750 £81,250
90th Percentile - £98,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,225 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -19.59% +0.92% -9.17%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Top 9 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 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +75 8 £44,225 -37.93% 8
UK excluding London -26 5 £44,225 -19.59% 6
Midlands -8 4 £44,225 - 3
London +114 3 - - 3
East Midlands -7 2 £44,225 - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
North of England +26 1 - - 1
Work from Home +22 1 - - 3
North West -4 1 - -

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 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) BGP
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Wireless
4 3 (33.33%) Ethernet
4 3 (33.33%) MPLS
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) VXLAN
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) ISDN
5 2 (22.22%) MGCP
5 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) NETCONF
1 1 (11.11%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Logistics
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Presales
3 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) A+ Certification
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) MCSE
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) SANS
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) F5
3 2 (22.22%) Juniper
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Riverbed
3 2 (22.22%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) BT
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) Sun