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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 897 895 1199
Rank change year-on-year -2 +304 -284
Permanent jobs citing NX-OS 10 52 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.055% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.073% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 30
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 13,607 15,377 22,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.96% 16.25% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,414 7,683 11,818
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 £87,419 £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 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 1 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 +13 8 £44,225 -37.93% 8
UK excluding London -67 6 £44,225 -19.59% 5
Midlands -12 4 £44,225 - 1
London +110 3 - - 5
Work from Home +6 2 - - 4
East Midlands -19 2 £44,225 -
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
North of England +19 1 - -
North West -9 1 - -
Scotland -74 1 - - 2

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 7 (70.00%) 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%) WAN
3 5 (50.00%) Wireless
4 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (40.00%) DHCP
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
4 4 (40.00%) VPN
5 3 (30.00%) Ethernet
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
5 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) VXLAN
6 2 (20.00%) Anycast
6 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (20.00%) FCoE
6 2 (20.00%) MRTG
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
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
3 1 (10.00%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (10.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) 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 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Logistics
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 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 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (20.00%) SANS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCIE
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%) Nagios
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (20.00%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) Arista
4 1 (10.00%) BT
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Sun