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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 432 312
Rank change year-on-year +33 -120 +148
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 238 75 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.27% 0.68%
As % of the System Software category 5.17% 2.27% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 40 166
10th Percentile £463 £423 £413
25th Percentile £519 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £688 £595 £625
90th Percentile £782 £650 £657
UK median daily rate £600 £555 £538
% change year-on-year +8.11% +3.26% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £40.90 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.38 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £88.15 - £76.31
90th Percentile £98.82 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.30%

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 4,600 3,308 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 12.00% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,135 2,656
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £682 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 95 130
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.03 £14.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.75 £15.82
Median hourly rate £60.33 £37.50 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% +56.32% -39.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £80.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.80 £91.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +75.24% +29.80% -49.75%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +1 85 £603 +4.78% 5
South West -15 48 £650 +17.65% 7
London -56 41 £613 -1.61% 8
North of England -73 23 £538 +25.07% 4
Midlands -34 16 £487 +33.42% 2
North West -33 15 £565 +5.12% 4
West Midlands -39 13 £487 +33.42% 1
East of England -8 12 £513 -6.82% 4
Yorkshire -48 7 £375 -9.09%
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
North East -36 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 4 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.84%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (21.85%) AWS
2 35 (14.71%) Azure
3 11 (4.62%) GitHub
4 9 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.10%) GCP
5 5 (2.10%) OpenShift
5 5 (2.10%) Rubrik
6 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.26%) OCI
7 2 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.84%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 77 (32.35%) VSAN
2 68 (28.57%) DNS
3 59 (24.79%) Firewall
4 33 (13.87%) WAN
5 27 (11.34%) DHCP
6 24 (10.08%) VPN
7 23 (9.66%) LAN
7 23 (9.66%) TCP/IP
8 19 (7.98%) Network Security
9 17 (7.14%) SD-WAN
10 16 (6.72%) IPsec
11 15 (6.30%) BGP
11 15 (6.30%) BIG-IP
11 15 (6.30%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (5.46%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (5.46%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (5.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (4.62%) OSPF
14 11 (4.62%) VLAN
15 10 (4.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.36%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.52%) GitLab
3 5 (2.10%) Git
4 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 41 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (5.88%) Finance
6 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.68%) Legal
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (21.85%) Senior
2 40 (16.81%) VMware Engineer
3 38 (15.97%) Architect
4 34 (14.29%) Consultant
5 33 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (13.03%) Network Engineer
7 22 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (8.82%) VMware Consultant
9 20 (8.40%) Senior Network Engineer
9 20 (8.40%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 18 (7.56%) Support Engineer
11 16 (6.72%) Lead
11 16 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (6.30%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Technical Architect
14 10 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) Technical Leader
16 8 (3.36%) Network Architect
16 8 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.91%) Terraform
2 8 (3.36%) REST
3 5 (2.10%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.68%) JSON
4 4 (1.68%) LDAP
4 4 (1.68%) SAML
4 4 (1.68%) YAML
5 2 (0.84%) Flash
6 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.42%) Jinja
6 1 (0.42%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.81%) Data Centre
2 33 (13.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 33 (13.87%) PKI
3 21 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.72%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.68%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.26%) Replication
9 2 (0.84%) Clustering
9 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.42%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (34.45%) Windows
2 61 (25.63%) Linux
3 42 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.52%) Debian
4 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.26%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.26%) VMS
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) CatOS
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.79%) Technical Leadership
2 49 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (18.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (18.07%) Network Virtualisation
6 39 (16.39%) Migration
7 34 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (13.03%) Load Balancing
10 30 (12.61%) High Availability
11 23 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.66%) Mentoring
12 22 (9.24%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (8.82%) ITIL
14 20 (8.40%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (7.98%) Agile
15 19 (7.98%) Change Management
15 19 (7.98%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (7.98%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.01%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.29%) Python
3 24 (10.08%) Bash
4 15 (6.30%) SQL
5 1 (0.42%) Bicep
5 1 (0.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 145 (60.92%) Security Cleared
2 96 (40.34%) DV Cleared
3 75 (31.51%) SC Cleared
4 36 (15.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 35 (14.71%) VCAP
6 15 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.04%) CCNP
8 8 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.94%) Degree
10 4 (1.68%) CCIE
10 4 (1.68%) CCNA
10 4 (1.68%) OCP
10 4 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.84%) MCSE
13 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.42%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.04%) NCSC
1 12 (5.04%) NIST
2 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 155 (65.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (39.50%) VMware ESXi
3 85 (35.71%) vSphere
4 56 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 19 (7.98%) vCloud
6 15 (6.30%) Docker
7 14 (5.88%) Hyper-V
7 14 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.26%) UAG
8 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) NFS
9 1 (0.42%) Samba
Systems Management
1 90 (37.82%) vCenter Server
2 53 (22.27%) Ansible
3 37 (15.55%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.82%) vRealize
5 19 (7.98%) SCOM
5 19 (7.98%) VxRail
6 13 (5.46%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.04%) PowerCLI
8 6 (2.52%) Argo
8 6 (2.52%) Grafana
8 6 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (1.26%) vMotion
11 3 (1.26%) WSUS
12 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.84%) OPNET
12 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 238 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (16.81%) Cisco
3 24 (10.08%) Palo Alto
4 23 (9.66%) F5
5 20 (8.40%) Microsoft
6 16 (6.72%) SolarWinds
7 12 (5.04%) Veritas
8 11 (4.62%) Broadcom
9 9 (3.78%) Citrix
9 9 (3.78%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.78%) Zerto
10 8 (3.36%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.36%) NetApp
11 7 (2.94%) Pure Storage
11 7 (2.94%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.94%) Splunk
12 5 (2.10%) Becrypt
12 5 (2.10%) Veeam
13 4 (1.68%) NVIDIA
13 4 (1.68%) SaltStack