VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

VMware NSX
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 15 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.27% 1.32% -
As % of the System Software category 11.63% 9.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -
75th Percentile £495 £506 -
90th Percentile - £518 -
North West median daily rate £490 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% -15.00%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 129 63 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.49% 13.88% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 37 38
10th Percentile £311 £265 £126
25th Percentile £355 £350 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £391 £363
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +7.86% -14.71%
75th Percentile £494 £425 £520
90th Percentile £610 £504 £553
North West median daily rate £435 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +8.75% -11.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile - - £16.66
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £16.84
Median hourly rate £16.88 £24.18 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% +39.55% -37.56%
75th Percentile £18.87 - £17.62
90th Percentile £23.83 £56.17 £17.68
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £22.09 £18.00
% change year-on-year +89.86% +22.72% -63.87%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in Cheshire

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Chester - 14 - - 1
VMware NSX
North West

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) DNS
2 10 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 9 (60.00%) BIG-IP
3 9 (60.00%) HTTP
3 9 (60.00%) SSL
3 9 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (33.33%) DMZ
4 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (33.33%) Network Security
5 1 (6.67%) DWDM
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) MPLS
5 1 (6.67%) Multicast
5 1 (6.67%) VPN
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Fiddler
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Junior
2 9 (60.00%) Junior Network Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Web Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Django
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Load Balancing
2 9 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 9 (60.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Network Design
4 1 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (93.33%) F5
3 9 (60.00%) Blue Coat
3 9 (60.00%) McAfee
4 5 (33.33%) Computacenter
5 1 (6.67%) Arista
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) NetScout
5 1 (6.67%) SevOne
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk