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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 411 342
Rank change year-on-year +13 -69 +163
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 221 78 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 5.08% 2.47% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 43 149
10th Percentile £450 £428 £423
25th Percentile £512 £499 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +6.17%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £648 £651
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £544
% change year-on-year +3.64% +1.15% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £29.00 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £51.00 - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 4,349 3,164 4,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.55% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 2,094 2,916
10th Percentile £213 £215 £207
25th Percentile £400 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 73 201
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.25 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +85.96% +27.23% -55.20%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.60 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.22%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +8 75 £600 +3.45% 9
London -42 44 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England -49 32 £514 +20.94% 2
South West -25 26 £575 +4.55% 1
North West -31 16 £514 +20.88% 2
Midlands - 16 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -43 15 £511 -0.39%
West Midlands - 13 £450 - 1
East of England -35 9 £510 +1.49% 2
East Midlands - 3 - -
North East -31 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 (1.36%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (16.29%) AWS
2 30 (13.57%) Azure
3 19 (8.60%) GitHub
4 17 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 9 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.26%) GCP
7 5 (2.26%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.90%) IaaS
9 2 (0.90%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.90%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.90%) PaaS
9 2 (0.90%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (25.34%) DNS
2 53 (23.98%) VSAN
3 50 (22.62%) Firewall
4 35 (15.84%) WAN
5 27 (12.22%) LAN
6 23 (10.41%) VPN
7 20 (9.05%) Network Security
8 18 (8.14%) BIG-IP
9 17 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
10 16 (7.24%) IPsec
10 16 (7.24%) SD-WAN
11 15 (6.79%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (6.79%) SSL
12 13 (5.88%) Wireshark
13 12 (5.43%) HTTP
14 11 (4.98%) BGP
15 9 (4.07%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (4.07%) DHCP
15 9 (4.07%) TCP/IP
16 8 (3.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.62%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.26%) Fiddler
3 2 (0.90%) Git
3 2 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.90%) JIRA
3 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 52 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.50%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (6.33%) Finance
4 8 (3.62%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.36%) Legal
7 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (27.15%) Architect
2 36 (16.29%) Senior
3 33 (14.93%) Network Engineer
3 33 (14.93%) VMware Engineer
4 32 (14.48%) Consultant
5 28 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.60%) VMware Consultant
7 18 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (8.14%) VMware Architect
8 17 (7.69%) Technical Architect
9 16 (7.24%) Support Engineer
10 15 (6.79%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 14 (6.33%) Lead
12 13 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.98%) Senior Network Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 8 (3.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
16 7 (3.17%) Citrix Engineer
16 7 (3.17%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.17%) LDAP
2 7 (3.17%) SAML
3 5 (2.26%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.26%) REST
4 3 (1.36%) Flash
5 2 (0.90%) Django
6 1 (0.45%) Jinja
6 1 (0.45%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 20 (9.05%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.14%) PKI
5 14 (6.33%) Private Cloud
6 13 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.36%) Replication
9 2 (0.90%) Clustering
9 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.45%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.08%) Windows
2 43 (19.46%) Linux
3 35 (15.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.71%) Debian
5 6 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.36%) CatOS
7 3 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.08%) Migration
2 39 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 37 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (14.48%) High Availability
6 30 (13.57%) CI/CD
6 30 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (11.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (10.41%) Containerisation
10 22 (9.95%) Network Virtualisation
11 21 (9.50%) DevOps
12 18 (8.14%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (7.69%) ITIL
14 16 (7.24%) RBAC
15 15 (6.79%) Identity Access Management
15 15 (6.79%) Zero Trust
16 14 (6.33%) Validation
17 13 (5.88%) Change Management
17 13 (5.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.48%) Python
2 24 (10.86%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.69%) Bash
4 13 (5.88%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) C
Qualifications
1 107 (48.42%) Security Cleared
2 67 (30.32%) DV Cleared
3 66 (29.86%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.24%) VCAP
6 15 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.43%) CCNP
8 7 (3.17%) Degree
9 6 (2.71%) OCP
9 6 (2.71%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.81%) CCNA
11 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.36%) CCIE
11 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.90%) MCSE
13 1 (0.45%) CCDP
13 1 (0.45%) CISSP
13 1 (0.45%) GSEC
13 1 (0.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) NCSC
2 13 (5.88%) NIST
3 5 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (61.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (33.48%) vSphere
3 68 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
4 39 (17.65%) Active Directory
5 16 (7.24%) vCloud
6 10 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.81%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) Docker
8 1 (0.45%) UAG
Systems Management
1 74 (33.48%) vCenter Server
2 43 (19.46%) Ansible
3 27 (12.22%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.76%) Terraform
5 19 (8.60%) vRealize
6 18 (8.14%) Argo
7 13 (5.88%) Grafana
7 13 (5.88%) NetBackup
8 12 (5.43%) SCOM
9 10 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (3.62%) PowerCLI
11 7 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.36%) SCCM
12 3 (1.36%) VxRail
12 3 (1.36%) WSUS
13 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.90%) vMotion
14 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 221 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (18.10%) Cisco
3 26 (11.76%) F5
4 24 (10.86%) Palo Alto
5 22 (9.95%) Microsoft
6 18 (8.14%) Pure Storage
7 16 (7.24%) Splunk
8 14 (6.33%) SolarWinds
9 13 (5.88%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.43%) Veritas
11 11 (4.98%) CheckPoint
12 10 (4.52%) Broadcom
13 9 (4.07%) Citrix
13 9 (4.07%) Zerto
14 7 (3.17%) McAfee
14 7 (3.17%) NetApp
15 5 (2.26%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.26%) NVIDIA
16 4 (1.81%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.81%) Veeam