VMware NSX Contracts

VMware NSX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware NSX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware NSX over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 502 625
Rank change year-on-year +111 +123 -98
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 193 196 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 4.21% 2.61% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 142 133
10th Percentile £416 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £680 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £53.00 £62.00 £42.04
25th Percentile £57.50 £62.92 £43.31
Median hourly rate £63.75 £64.62 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% +36.03% +17.25%
75th Percentile £72.94 £67.06 £59.44
90th Percentile £75.98 £71.97 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.23 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.75% +33.12% +17.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware NSX is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,583 7,505 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.10% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,170 5,326 8,437
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 263 304
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -8.24%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.70 £58.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £47.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year -59.42% +170.01% -4.21%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX.

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX.

Hourly rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware NSX within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +132 162 £529 +4.40% 26
UK excluding London +83 139 £525 +5.00% 21
South East +49 57 £534 +8.05% 8
Work from Home +83 54 £550 - 8
South West +44 52 £525 -4.55% 2
London +80 32 £535 -2.73% 6
Scotland +34 14 £438 -11.96%
Midlands +28 13 £488 +7.04% 7
West Midlands +30 12 £488 -2.50% 5
North of England +17 3 £513 +18.84% 3
North West +4 3 £513 +15.49% 1

VMware NSX
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 14 (7.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.07%) IBM Domino
3 4 (2.07%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.81%) Azure
2 12 (6.22%) AWS
3 10 (5.18%) OpenShift
4 9 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.15%) Nutanix
6 5 (2.59%) GCP
7 4 (2.07%) GitHub
8 3 (1.55%) IaaS
9 2 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.04%) PaaS
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (27.46%) Firewall
1 53 (27.46%) VSAN
2 26 (13.47%) WAN
3 24 (12.44%) DNS
4 21 (10.88%) SAN
5 17 (8.81%) DHCP
5 17 (8.81%) LAN
6 16 (8.29%) TCP/IP
7 14 (7.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 14 (7.25%) Network Security
8 13 (6.74%) VPN
9 12 (6.22%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (5.18%) SD-WAN
11 7 (3.63%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (3.63%) MPLS
12 6 (3.11%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (3.11%) FTP
12 6 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (3.11%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (2.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) MySQL
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (9.84%) JIRA
2 9 (4.66%) Bitbucket
3 8 (4.15%) Git
4 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.59%) GitLab
6 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 58 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.58%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.70%) Finance
5 8 (4.15%) Banking
6 7 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.11%) Billing
7 6 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.11%) Legal
7 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Electronics
8 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.04%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (16.58%) Network Engineer
2 31 (16.06%) Consultant
3 30 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (15.54%) VMware Engineer
4 20 (10.36%) VMware Consultant
5 17 (8.81%) Senior
6 12 (6.22%) Security Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Network Consultant
8 10 (5.18%) Architect
8 10 (5.18%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) Network Security Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) VMware Expert
10 6 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.11%) Senior Network Consultant
11 5 (2.59%) Administrator
11 5 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) YAML
2 7 (3.63%) REST
3 6 (3.11%) JSON
4 5 (2.59%) Flash
5 4 (2.07%) .NET
5 4 (2.07%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.55%) EDI
6 3 (1.55%) Node.js
6 3 (1.55%) RESTful
6 3 (1.55%) SOAP
6 3 (1.55%) XML
7 2 (1.04%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.04%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.52%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.76%) Data Centre
2 25 (12.95%) PKI
3 11 (5.70%) Clustering
4 9 (4.66%) Replication
5 6 (3.11%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) CCTV
8 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.55%) SCADA
9 2 (1.04%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.04%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.52%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 61 (31.61%) Linux
2 51 (26.42%) Windows
3 38 (19.69%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.15%) Unix
6 5 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.07%) CentOS
7 4 (2.07%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.04%) VMS
10 1 (0.52%) Android
10 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (15.54%) Agile
2 30 (15.54%) Migration
3 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (11.92%) CI/CD
5 22 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (10.36%) Network Virtualisation
7 17 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (8.81%) DevOps
8 16 (8.29%) Converged Infrastructure
9 15 (7.77%) ITIL
9 15 (7.77%) Time Management
10 14 (7.25%) High Availability
11 13 (6.74%) Computer Science
11 13 (6.74%) Virtual Environments
12 11 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (5.70%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (5.18%) Data Migration
13 10 (5.18%) NsoIT
13 10 (5.18%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.54%) Python
2 28 (14.51%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.25%) Bash
4 8 (4.15%) C#
4 8 (4.15%) Java
5 6 (3.11%) C
6 5 (2.59%) SQL
7 4 (2.07%) Go
7 4 (2.07%) Ruby
8 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (57.51%) Security Cleared
2 72 (37.31%) DV Cleared
3 45 (23.32%) SC Cleared
4 26 (13.47%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (12.95%) Degree
6 18 (9.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 17 (8.81%) CCNP
8 10 (5.18%) CCIE
9 9 (4.66%) CCNA
10 8 (4.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (4.15%) VCAP
11 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.04%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.52%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 1 (0.52%) RHCE
15 1 (0.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.66%) PMO
2 7 (3.63%) NIST
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 110 (56.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (31.09%) vSphere
3 58 (30.05%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (11.92%) Active Directory
5 18 (9.33%) Hyper-V
6 14 (7.25%) vCloud
7 8 (4.15%) Docker
8 5 (2.59%) VMware Server
9 4 (2.07%) KVM
10 3 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.04%) Ceph
11 2 (1.04%) Firmware
11 2 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.04%) XenApp
12 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.52%) UAG
12 1 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 51 (26.42%) vCenter Server
2 33 (17.10%) Ansible
3 21 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.88%) Terraform
4 19 (9.84%) vRealize
5 17 (8.81%) VxRail
6 12 (6.22%) SCCM
7 5 (2.59%) vMotion
8 4 (2.07%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (2.07%) OPNET
8 4 (2.07%) Puppet
9 3 (1.55%) Autotask
9 3 (1.55%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.04%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.04%) Podman
10 2 (1.04%) Rancher
10 2 (1.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 189 (97.93%) VMware
2 54 (27.98%) Cisco
3 35 (18.13%) Microsoft
4 33 (17.10%) Palo Alto
5 32 (16.58%) Dell
6 17 (8.81%) Atlassian
6 17 (8.81%) Veeam
7 15 (7.77%) F5
8 11 (5.70%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.63%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.11%) Juniper
10 6 (3.11%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.07%) Citrix
11 4 (2.07%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.07%) Google
11 4 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.55%) Arista
12 3 (1.55%) Dell Compellent
12 3 (1.55%) EMC
12 3 (1.55%) Remedy