VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

VMware NSX
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.97% 0.83% -
As % of the System Software category 10.53% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +21.05%

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 57 50 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.25% 8.29% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 59
10th Percentile £340 £205 £198
25th Percentile £422 £306 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -10.20% +3.16%
75th Percentile £531 £499 £547
90th Percentile £675 £588 £750
Scotland median daily rate £456 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £70.50 £60.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £60.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (50.00%) Catchpoint
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) OSPF
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) NVMe
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) BCP
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) NCDA
3 1 (16.67%) VCP6
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) vMotion
3 2 (33.33%) vRealize
4 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Arista
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) AppNeta
3 2 (33.33%) Brocade
3 2 (33.33%) Commvault
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp