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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 912 892 1219
Rank change year-on-year -20 +327 -278
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 10 53 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.057% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.073% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 29
10th Percentile - £42,125 £48,450
25th Percentile £43,421 £60,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,225 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +14.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £45,028 £91,875 £78,750
90th Percentile - £98,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,225 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.72% -16.67% -10.00%

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 13,776 15,239 22,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 16.37% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,405 7,647 11,856
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,850 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -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 10 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 9 June 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 +2 7 £44,225 -34.48% 8
UK excluding London -98 6 £44,225 -1.72% 5
London +62 3 - - 5
Work from Home +17 3 - - 3
Midlands -31 3 £44,225 - 3
East Midlands -34 2 £44,225 -
Scotland -71 2 - - 2
North of England +11 1 - -
North West -13 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) BGP
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (50.00%) LAN
3 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 5 (50.00%) Wireless
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
5 3 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (30.00%) DHCP
5 3 (30.00%) IPsec
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (20.00%) Internet
6 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (20.00%) VoIP
6 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (10.00%) ISDN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (10.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Network Management
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) A+ Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CCIE
4 2 (20.00%) CCNA
4 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 2 (20.00%) MCSE
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (20.00%) SANS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Arista
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (10.00%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Sun