VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in Bristol

VMware NSX
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 4 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.35% - 1.35%
As % of the System Software category 5.56% - 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £493 - £457
25th Percentile £538 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.43%
75th Percentile £644 - £613
90th Percentile £648 - £678
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate - - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
South West median hourly rate £50.50 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +15.06%

All System Software Skills
Bristol

VMware NSX falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 73 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.22% 13.72% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 74
10th Percentile £267 £200 £218
25th Percentile £428 £213 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £648
90th Percentile £701 £672 £726
South West median daily rate £539 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 13
10th Percentile £19.41 £63.22 £64.43
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.80 £67.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.85 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -21.28% +38.46%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.15 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.28 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £40.63 £67.25
% change year-on-year +60.00% -39.59% +12.08%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware NSX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in Bristol

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware NSX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in Bristol

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware NSX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Flash
1 1 (25.00%) Jinja
1 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft