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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 439 349
Rank change year-on-year 0 -90 +86
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 187 75 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.27% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 4.04% 2.14% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 42 126
10th Percentile £490 £441 £394
25th Percentile £554 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £725 £584 £630
90th Percentile £800 £619 £668
UK median daily rate £610 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +10.91% +2.33% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £30.75 - -
25th Percentile £49.88 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £98.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 4,625 3,505 3,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.47% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,024 2,260 2,441
10th Percentile £218 £208 £220
25th Percentile £398 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 109 86
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +83.00% -19.92% -6.71%
75th Percentile £74.08 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.70 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +106.67% -17.05% -24.44%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -18 71 £610 +22.00% 10
South West -9 34 £700 +27.27% 18
London -74 33 £670 +8.06% 7
Midlands -21 23 £507 +7.79% 3
West Midlands -26 20 £487 +3.62% 2
North of England -66 10 £600 +45.45% 9
North West -47 8 £600 - 8
East of England - 6 £545 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £526 - 1
Yorkshire -39 2 £400 -3.03%
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 4 (2.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (19.25%) AWS
2 26 (13.90%) Azure
3 7 (3.74%) GitHub
3 7 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (3.21%) GCP
5 4 (2.14%) Rubrik
6 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.60%) OCI
7 2 (1.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.07%) IaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (35.83%) VSAN
2 64 (34.22%) DNS
3 50 (26.74%) Firewall
4 25 (13.37%) DHCP
5 23 (12.30%) TCP/IP
6 22 (11.76%) WAN
7 19 (10.16%) LAN
8 18 (9.63%) VPN
9 17 (9.09%) BGP
10 15 (8.02%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (8.02%) IPsec
10 15 (8.02%) Network Security
11 14 (7.49%) BIG-IP
11 14 (7.49%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (6.95%) SD-WAN
13 11 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (5.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (5.35%) VLAN
15 9 (4.81%) OSPF
15 9 (4.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.07%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) GitLab
2 7 (3.74%) Git
3 3 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) MSI
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 25 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.49%) Finance
4 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (19.79%) Senior
2 34 (18.18%) Architect
3 29 (15.51%) VMware Engineer
4 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) Consultant
6 23 (12.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (12.30%) Network Engineer
7 20 (10.70%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (10.16%) VMware Consultant
9 17 (9.09%) Support Engineer
10 14 (7.49%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 13 (6.95%) Lead
11 13 (6.95%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (6.42%) Network Architect
12 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.88%) Technical Leader
14 9 (4.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 8 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
16 7 (3.74%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.32%) Terraform
2 10 (5.35%) REST
3 8 (4.28%) YAML
4 7 (3.74%) JSON
5 4 (2.14%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.60%) LDAP
6 3 (1.60%) SAML
7 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 27 (14.44%) PKI
3 23 (12.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (9.09%) Public Cloud
5 14 (7.49%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.81%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.21%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.14%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (36.36%) Windows
2 43 (22.99%) Linux
3 32 (17.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.53%) CatOS
5 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.22%) Technical Leadership
2 51 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (19.79%) Migration
5 34 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
7 28 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (13.37%) CI/CD
8 25 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (11.23%) Agile
11 19 (10.16%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.63%) Change Management
12 18 (9.63%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (9.63%) DevSecOps
12 18 (9.63%) High Availability
13 17 (9.09%) Load Balancing
13 17 (9.09%) Service Management
13 17 (9.09%) SIEM
13 17 (9.09%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.13%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.04%) Python
3 17 (9.09%) Bash
4 16 (8.56%) SQL
5 1 (0.53%) Bicep
5 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 125 (66.84%) Security Cleared
2 83 (44.39%) DV Cleared
3 54 (28.88%) SC Cleared
4 34 (18.18%) VCAP
5 32 (17.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.28%) CCNP
7 8 (4.28%) Degree
8 4 (2.14%) CCIE
9 3 (1.60%) CCNA
10 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.53%) CCDP
11 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMP
11 1 (0.53%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) NIST
2 7 (3.74%) NCSC
3 2 (1.07%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 117 (62.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (40.64%) VMware ESXi
3 61 (32.62%) vSphere
4 50 (26.74%) Active Directory
5 23 (12.30%) vCloud
6 18 (9.63%) Docker
7 12 (6.42%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.60%) UAG
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.53%) Firmware
10 1 (0.53%) NFS
10 1 (0.53%) Samba
Systems Management
1 76 (40.64%) vCenter Server
2 41 (21.93%) Ansible
3 31 (16.58%) Kubernetes
4 23 (12.30%) SCOM
5 19 (10.16%) VxRail
6 13 (6.95%) vRealize
7 7 (3.74%) PowerCLI
8 4 (2.14%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.60%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.07%) OPNET
10 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.07%) Puppet
10 2 (1.07%) vMotion
10 2 (1.07%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.53%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.53%) OpenNMS
11 1 (0.53%) SCCM
11 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 187 (100.00%) VMware
2 38 (20.32%) Cisco
3 19 (10.16%) Palo Alto
4 18 (9.63%) F5
5 15 (8.02%) SolarWinds
6 14 (7.49%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.28%) Broadcom
8 8 (4.28%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.21%) Citrix
9 6 (3.21%) NetApp
10 5 (2.67%) Becrypt
10 5 (2.67%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.67%) Veeam
11 4 (2.14%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.14%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.60%) Google
12 3 (1.60%) Oracle
12 3 (1.60%) Veritas