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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 402 355
Rank change year-on-year +28 -47 +136
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 221 82 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.34% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 5.16% 2.70% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 47 127
10th Percentile £451 £434 £416
25th Percentile £509 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £657
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.50 £78.75 £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +13.40% +15.06%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -38.18% +22.22% +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 4,285 3,042 4,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.21% 12.63% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 2,051 2,863
10th Percentile £213 £214 £204
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 72 201
10th Percentile £17.37 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.72 £17.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.46 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +86.26% +28.47% -57.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £24.18
% change year-on-year +84.50% +17.68% -55.90%

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 5 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
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 5 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 -7 69 £600 +3.45% 15
London -39 48 £550 -8.33% 8
North of England -56 35 £522 +22.71% 4
South West -24 26 £575 +4.55% 5
North West -22 18 £514 +20.88% 4
Yorkshire -44 16 £514 +0.29%
Midlands - 15 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 12 £450 -
East of England -37 7 £510 +1.49% 1
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
North East -28 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 5 (2.26%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.03%) AWS
2 27 (12.22%) Azure
3 19 (8.60%) GitHub
3 19 (8.60%) OpenShift
4 7 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.26%) Rubrik
5 5 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.36%) GCP
7 3 (1.36%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.36%) PaaS
8 2 (0.90%) IaaS
8 2 (0.90%) IBM Watson
8 2 (0.90%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.43%) VSAN
2 53 (23.98%) DNS
3 47 (21.27%) Firewall
4 30 (13.57%) WAN
5 22 (9.95%) Network Security
6 21 (9.50%) LAN
7 20 (9.05%) VPN
8 17 (7.69%) BIG-IP
8 17 (7.69%) SSL
9 15 (6.79%) Wireshark
10 14 (6.33%) HTTP
11 12 (5.43%) IPsec
12 11 (4.98%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (4.52%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (4.52%) DHCP
14 9 (4.07%) BGP
14 9 (4.07%) SD-WAN
15 8 (3.62%) Wireless
16 7 (3.17%) HTTPS
16 7 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.62%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.17%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.81%) GitLab
4 3 (1.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 51 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.33%) Finance
4 13 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.36%) Legal
7 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (28.51%) Architect
2 34 (15.38%) Senior
3 33 (14.93%) Network Engineer
3 33 (14.93%) VMware Engineer
4 30 (13.57%) Consultant
5 27 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (9.50%) VMware Architect
7 17 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
8 16 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.79%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Support Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Technical Architect
11 12 (5.43%) Lead
11 12 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.98%) Senior Network Engineer
13 10 (4.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 8 (3.62%) Junior
15 7 (3.17%) Citrix Engineer
15 7 (3.17%) Junior Network Engineer
15 7 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.17%) LDAP
2 7 (3.17%) SAML
3 6 (2.71%) REST
4 5 (2.26%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.36%) Flash
6 2 (0.90%) Django
7 1 (0.45%) Jinja
7 1 (0.45%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (10.41%) Data Centre
3 19 (8.60%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.14%) PKI
5 12 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 11 (4.98%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.26%) Replication
8 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.90%) Clustering
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.45%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.45%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.62%) Windows
2 42 (19.00%) Linux
3 34 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.71%) Debian
7 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.36%) CatOS
8 3 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.90%) VMS
10 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.98%) Migration
2 44 (19.91%) Load Balancing
3 36 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 31 (14.03%) High Availability
6 30 (13.57%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.67%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (10.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (10.41%) Containerisation
10 22 (9.95%) DevOps
10 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (9.50%) Network Virtualisation
12 18 (8.14%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (7.24%) RBAC
14 15 (6.79%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (6.79%) Use Case
15 14 (6.33%) Change Management
16 13 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
16 13 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
17 12 (5.43%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.48%) Python
2 23 (10.41%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.69%) Bash
4 11 (4.98%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) C
Qualifications
1 95 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.60%) DV Cleared
3 60 (27.15%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.69%) VCAP
6 10 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.17%) CCNP
8 6 (2.71%) OCP
8 6 (2.71%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.81%) Degree
10 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.90%) CCIE
11 2 (0.90%) CCNA
11 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.90%) GSEC
11 2 (0.90%) MCSE
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.90%) VCDX
12 1 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) NIST
2 9 (4.07%) NCSC
3 5 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (61.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 77 (34.84%) vSphere
3 64 (28.96%) VMware ESXi
4 38 (17.19%) Active Directory
5 14 (6.33%) vCloud
6 9 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) Docker
8 1 (0.45%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) UAG
Systems Management
1 67 (30.32%) vCenter Server
2 41 (18.55%) Ansible
3 29 (13.12%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.41%) Terraform
5 19 (8.60%) vRealize
6 18 (8.14%) Argo
7 13 (5.88%) Grafana
7 13 (5.88%) NetBackup
8 11 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (4.52%) SCOM
10 8 (3.62%) PowerCLI
11 7 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.81%) SCCM
13 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.36%) WSUS
14 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.90%) Istio
14 2 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.90%) vMotion
14 2 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 221 (100.00%) VMware
2 36 (16.29%) Cisco
3 26 (11.76%) F5
4 19 (8.60%) Palo Alto
5 18 (8.14%) Microsoft
5 18 (8.14%) Pure Storage
6 15 (6.79%) Red Hat
6 15 (6.79%) Splunk
7 12 (5.43%) Veritas
8 11 (4.98%) Broadcom
8 11 (4.98%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.52%) SolarWinds
10 9 (4.07%) Citrix
10 9 (4.07%) McAfee
10 9 (4.07%) Zerto
11 8 (3.62%) NetApp
12 7 (3.17%) Blue Coat
13 5 (2.26%) Dell
13 5 (2.26%) NVIDIA
14 4 (1.81%) Arista