VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in England

VMware NSX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 426 334
Rank change year-on-year +32 -92 +167
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 231 85 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 5.11% 2.57% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 47 162
10th Percentile £433 £413 £417
25th Percentile £511 £467 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £642 £600 £624
90th Percentile £746 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £32.40 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile £84.22 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +6.75%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,519 3,303 4,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.08% 12.22% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,169 2,937
10th Percentile £210 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 87 192
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -54.98%
75th Percentile £74.00 £69.75 £58.49
90th Percentile £81.20 £89.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £28.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +80.00% +20.80% -54.67%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in England

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware NSX in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South East +6 75 £600 +1.69% 12
London -39 50 £575 -4.17% 6
South West -16 33 £588 +6.82% 7
North of England -69 32 £514 +20.94% 3
Midlands -39 17 £450 +23.29% 2
North West -32 16 £514 +20.88% 3
Yorkshire -47 15 £511 +23.76%
West Midlands -53 14 £450 +23.29% 2
East of England -35 10 £513 +1.99% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
North East -37 1 £675 +8.00%
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.30%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.87%) Confluence
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.18%) AWS
2 33 (14.29%) Azure
3 19 (8.23%) GitHub
4 17 (7.36%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.16%) GCP
7 5 (2.16%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.30%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.87%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 63 (27.27%) DNS
2 57 (24.68%) VSAN
3 55 (23.81%) Firewall
4 36 (15.58%) WAN
5 27 (11.69%) LAN
6 26 (11.26%) VPN
7 22 (9.52%) Network Security
8 18 (7.79%) BIG-IP
9 16 (6.93%) IPsec
9 16 (6.93%) SD-WAN
10 15 (6.49%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (6.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 15 (6.49%) TCP/IP
11 14 (6.06%) SSL
12 13 (5.63%) DHCP
13 12 (5.19%) BGP
13 12 (5.19%) Wireshark
14 11 (4.76%) HTTP
14 11 (4.76%) OSPF
14 11 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.46%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.73%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.30%) Git
4 2 (0.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 53 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.06%) Finance
5 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.30%) Legal
7 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 56 (24.24%) Architect
2 40 (17.32%) Senior
3 36 (15.58%) VMware Engineer
4 35 (15.15%) Consultant
5 33 (14.29%) Network Engineer
6 28 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (9.52%) VMware Consultant
8 20 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) Support Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) Technical Architect
10 16 (6.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 15 (6.49%) Lead
12 14 (6.06%) VMware Architect
13 13 (5.63%) Senior Network Engineer
13 13 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (4.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 8 (3.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (3.03%) Citrix Engineer
16 7 (3.03%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.03%) LDAP
2 7 (3.03%) SAML
3 5 (2.16%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.30%) Flash
4 3 (1.30%) REST
5 2 (0.87%) Django
6 1 (0.43%) Jinja
6 1 (0.43%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 30 (12.99%) Data Centre
3 21 (9.09%) PKI
4 20 (8.66%) Cloud Native
5 14 (6.06%) Private Cloud
6 13 (5.63%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.30%) Replication
9 2 (0.87%) Clustering
9 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.43%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.41%) Windows
2 49 (21.21%) Linux
3 40 (17.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.60%) Debian
5 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.30%) CatOS
7 3 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) VMS
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (22.94%) Migration
2 45 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (16.88%) Load Balancing
4 38 (16.45%) Technical Leadership
5 37 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (15.58%) High Availability
7 35 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 29 (12.55%) Network Virtualisation
9 28 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (10.82%) Containerisation
10 25 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (9.52%) DevOps
12 19 (8.23%) ITIL
13 18 (7.79%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (6.93%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (6.93%) RBAC
15 15 (6.49%) Change Management
15 15 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (6.49%) Zero Trust
16 14 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.72%) Python
2 29 (12.55%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.52%) Bash
4 14 (6.06%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) C
6 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 119 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 75 (32.47%) DV Cleared
3 68 (29.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (11.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.36%) VCAP
6 15 (6.49%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.19%) CCNP
8 7 (3.03%) Degree
9 6 (2.60%) OCP
9 6 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.73%) CCNA
11 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.30%) CCIE
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.87%) MCSE
13 1 (0.43%) CCDP
13 1 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.43%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.06%) NCSC
2 13 (5.63%) NIST
3 5 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 141 (61.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 81 (35.06%) vSphere
3 76 (32.90%) VMware ESXi
4 46 (19.91%) Active Directory
5 16 (6.93%) vCloud
6 10 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.46%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.16%) Docker
9 3 (1.30%) UAG
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (35.50%) vCenter Server
2 49 (21.21%) Ansible
3 34 (14.72%) Terraform
4 32 (13.85%) Kubernetes
5 19 (8.23%) vRealize
6 18 (7.79%) Argo
7 14 (6.06%) SCOM
8 13 (5.63%) Grafana
8 13 (5.63%) NetBackup
9 10 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (3.46%) PowerCLI
11 7 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (2.60%) VxRail
13 3 (1.30%) WSUS
14 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.87%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.87%) SCCM
14 2 (0.87%) vMotion
Vendors
1 231 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (17.75%) Cisco
3 26 (11.26%) F5
4 24 (10.39%) Palo Alto
5 23 (9.96%) Microsoft
6 18 (7.79%) Pure Storage
7 16 (6.93%) Splunk
8 14 (6.06%) SolarWinds
9 13 (5.63%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.19%) Veritas
11 11 (4.76%) CheckPoint
12 10 (4.33%) Broadcom
13 9 (3.90%) Citrix
13 9 (3.90%) Zerto
14 8 (3.46%) NetApp
15 6 (2.60%) McAfee
16 5 (2.16%) Dell
16 5 (2.16%) NVIDIA
16 5 (2.16%) Veeam
17 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow