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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 663 766
Rank change year-on-year +120 +103 -67
Contract jobs citing NX-OS 28 24 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.042% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.34% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 71
10th Percentile £390 £450 £313
25th Percentile £463 £452 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +3.21%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £550
90th Percentile £550 £629 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -19.00% +25.00% +19.62%

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 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +124 21 £488 -22.00% 10
London - 16 £488 - 2
Work from Home +105 15 £475 -2.56% 4
UK excluding London +60 8 £506 -19.00% 8
South East +36 5 £550 -
Scotland - 3 £438 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) Firewall
2 12 (42.86%) BGP
3 11 (39.29%) LAN
3 11 (39.29%) OSPF
4 8 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (28.57%) WAN
5 7 (25.00%) VPN
6 6 (21.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (21.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (21.43%) SD-WAN
7 5 (17.86%) FabricPath
8 4 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (10.71%) Internet
9 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
10 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (7.14%) DNS
10 2 (7.14%) IOS XR
10 2 (7.14%) Network Security
10 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Network Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) Network Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Change Management
1 7 (25.00%) Migration
2 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 4 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (10.71%) Kanban
4 3 (10.71%) Network Design
4 3 (10.71%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (7.14%) Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 2 (7.14%) Project Planning
5 2 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (7.14%) Scrum
5 2 (7.14%) Time Management
5 2 (7.14%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (3.57%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (3.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) CCNP
1 12 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (28.57%) CCIE
3 7 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Netcool
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) F5
3 7 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (17.86%) Nokia
5 4 (14.29%) VMware
6 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
6 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
6 3 (10.71%) IBM
6 3 (10.71%) Infoblox
6 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.14%) Juniper