NX-OS Contracts

Cisco NX-OS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NX-OS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NX-OS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 674 750
Rank change year-on-year +141 +76 -36
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 51 23 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.041% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% 0.32% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 88
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £475 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% +8.33% +1.58%
75th Percentile £641 £500 £550
90th Percentile £671 £638 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £638 £483
% change year-on-year -2.35% +32.12% +10.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NX-OS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NX-OS in the UK

NX-OS
Top 9 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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 40 £550 -13.73% 8
Work from Home +121 23 £488 - 3
UK excluding London +45 22 £623 -2.35% 5
London - 20 £488 - 5
South East +27 13 £620 -
South West +10 11 £670 +3.08%
West Midlands - 11 £650 - 3
Midlands - 11 £650 - 3
Scotland - 3 £438 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (49.02%) SD-WAN
2 22 (43.14%) Firewall
3 15 (29.41%) BGP
4 14 (27.45%) OSPF
5 13 (25.49%) LAN
6 10 (19.61%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (19.61%) WAN
7 8 (15.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (15.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (13.73%) VPN
9 5 (9.80%) FabricPath
10 4 (7.84%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (7.84%) DNS
10 4 (7.84%) IOS XR
11 3 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (5.88%) Internet
11 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
12 2 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (3.92%) Network Security
12 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (35.29%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Network Engineer
2 19 (37.25%) Architect
3 18 (35.29%) Network Architect
4 6 (11.76%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Network Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Lead
6 2 (3.92%) Network Security Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Senior
6 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Network Support
7 1 (1.96%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (37.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) CMDB
3 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 17 (33.33%) Network Packet Capture
1 17 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 16 (31.37%) Computer Security
2 16 (31.37%) Password Management
3 9 (17.65%) Change Management
4 8 (15.69%) Migration
5 7 (13.73%) Agile
6 4 (7.84%) Capacity Management
6 4 (7.84%) Load Balancing
7 3 (5.88%) Analytics
7 3 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.88%) Kanban
7 3 (5.88%) Network Design
7 3 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
7 3 (5.88%) Project Planning
7 3 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (5.88%) Scrum
8 2 (3.92%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) CCNP
2 15 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (17.65%) CCIE
4 8 (15.69%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) GDPR
1 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (39.22%) VMware NSX
2 19 (37.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (33.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.96%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) CSIRT
2 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 3 (5.88%) Netcool
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 50 (98.04%) Cisco
2 20 (39.22%) VMware
3 18 (35.29%) F5
4 9 (17.65%) Fortinet
5 6 (11.76%) Nokia
6 5 (9.80%) Infoblox
7 4 (7.84%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
8 3 (5.88%) IBM
8 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.92%) Juniper
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.96%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.96%) Oracle
10 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.96%) SAP