VMware NSX Contracts in England

VMware NSX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware NSX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware NSX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 382 533
Rank change year-on-year +2 +151 +73
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 105 161 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.43% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 3.40% 3.99% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 105 84
10th Percentile £463 £438 £402
25th Percentile £525 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.01%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £654 £665 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £513
% change year-on-year +2.42% +4.78% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £65.18 £62.00
25th Percentile £78.75 £67.31 £62.31
Median hourly rate £82.50 £72.75 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +15.06% -14.55%
75th Percentile £86.25 £76.31 £68.50
90th Percentile - £77.33 £73.12
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £63.75 £63.23
% change year-on-year +29.41% +0.82% +33.12%

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 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +26 30 £591 +13.48% 7
South West +19 25 £550 +4.76% 8
London +18 20 £600 +12.15% 1
East of England - 16 £503 -
North of England +28 13 £425 -17.07% 8
Yorkshire - 9 £513 - 3
North West +18 4 £425 -17.07% 5
Midlands +14 1 £662 +20.27% 3
West Midlands +7 1 £662 +20.27% 2
North East 0 1 £625 +20.19%
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.43%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.24%) AWS
1 16 (15.24%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) IaaS
3 12 (11.43%) PaaS
4 8 (7.62%) SaaS
5 7 (6.67%) Nutanix
6 5 (4.76%) GitHub
6 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.81%) GCP
8 3 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.86%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.38%) VSAN
2 27 (25.71%) Firewall
3 13 (12.38%) Network Security
4 12 (11.43%) VPN
5 11 (10.48%) DNS
6 10 (9.52%) WAN
7 9 (8.57%) BGP
7 9 (8.57%) OSPF
7 9 (8.57%) TCP/IP
8 8 (7.62%) VLAN
9 7 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (5.71%) iSCSI
10 6 (5.71%) NGFW
10 6 (5.71%) SAN
11 5 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (4.76%) LAN
11 5 (4.76%) MPLS
11 5 (4.76%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.81%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) GitLab
2 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.81%) Finance
6 3 (2.86%) Billing
6 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Electronics
7 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.95%) Law
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Architect
2 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.24%) VMware Engineer
4 15 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 14 (13.33%) Senior
6 13 (12.38%) Consultant
6 13 (12.38%) Technical Architect
7 11 (10.48%) Senior Architect
7 11 (10.48%) Senior Technical Architect
8 8 (7.62%) Network Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) VMware Architect
9 6 (5.71%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
10 5 (4.76%) VMware Specialist
11 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
11 4 (3.81%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.33%) Flash
2 4 (3.81%) Middleware
3 1 (0.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (19.05%) Clustering
3 17 (16.19%) Data Centre
4 13 (12.38%) PKI
5 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.71%) Replication
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.10%) Windows
2 15 (14.29%) Linux
3 14 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.81%) VMS
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.90%) CentOS
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.95%) Unix
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (24.76%) Network Virtualisation
3 24 (22.86%) Agile
3 24 (22.86%) CI/CD
4 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.10%) ITIL
6 17 (16.19%) High Availability
6 17 (16.19%) Service Management
6 17 (16.19%) Validation
6 17 (16.19%) Waterfall
7 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (14.29%) Migration
9 14 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 14 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 14 (13.33%) NsoIT
9 14 (13.33%) Power Management
9 14 (13.33%) System Testing
9 14 (13.33%) TOGAF
10 13 (12.38%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.43%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) Python
2 13 (12.38%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.95%) Bash
4 1 (0.95%) C
4 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (64.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 31 (29.52%) DV Cleared
3 31 (29.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (15.24%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (13.33%) Degree
6 13 (12.38%) MCSE
6 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (11.43%) CCNA
7 12 (11.43%) Master's Degree
8 9 (8.57%) VCAP
9 6 (5.71%) CCNP
10 3 (2.86%) CCIE
10 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.90%) MCSA
12 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.33%) NIST
2 12 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (11.43%) NCSC
3 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (74.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (31.43%) VMware ESXi
3 26 (24.76%) vSphere
4 19 (18.10%) Active Directory
5 5 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.81%) Docker
6 4 (3.81%) NFS
6 4 (3.81%) vCloud
7 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (29.52%) vCenter Server
2 22 (20.95%) vRealize
3 20 (19.05%) Ansible
4 12 (11.43%) VxRail
5 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
6 10 (9.52%) PowerCLI
7 9 (8.57%) Terraform
8 8 (7.62%) FortiGate
9 7 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (3.81%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (3.81%) Podman
11 3 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.90%) Nagios
12 2 (1.90%) SCOM
12 2 (1.90%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.95%) Grafana
13 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 105 (100.00%) VMware
2 38 (36.19%) Cisco
3 16 (15.24%) Palo Alto
4 13 (12.38%) Atlassian
4 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.52%) Dell
6 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.81%) Google
7 4 (3.81%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.86%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.86%) Ericsson
8 3 (2.86%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.86%) Juniper
8 3 (2.86%) Mavenir
8 3 (2.86%) Nokia
8 3 (2.86%) Veeam
9 2 (1.90%) HP
9 2 (1.90%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow