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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 368 378
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +169
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 207 104 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 4.87% 3.24% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 69 101
10th Percentile £450 £463 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £686 £651 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £535
% change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £46.00 £77.63 £64.42
25th Percentile £47.00 £77.81 £65.42
Median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% +16.07% +10.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £85.31 £76.69
90th Percentile £74.88 £85.88 £77.48
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -37.85% +20.37% +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 4,251 3,211 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.32% 13.23% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 2,221 2,846
10th Percentile £213 £210 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.95% -9.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 80 202
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.20 £15.54
Median hourly rate £48.72 £28.71 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +69.73% +29.59% -44.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £82.88 £70.59
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% +16.00% -44.35%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -27 54 £595 -0.83% 16
London -20 45 £538 -10.42% 12
North of England -29 43 £522 +9.79% 11
North West -18 25 £514 +8.16% 7
South West -29 22 £550 - 10
Midlands -43 20 £550 -16.86%
Yorkshire -38 18 £522 +1.76% 3
West Midlands -46 17 £525 -20.63%
East of England -37 7 £520 +3.48%
East Midlands - 3 £550 -
South Coast - 1 £575 -
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 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.97%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.97%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.98%) Azure
2 29 (14.01%) AWS
2 29 (14.01%) OpenShift
3 20 (9.66%) GitHub
4 8 (3.86%) GCP
4 8 (3.86%) IaaS
4 8 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.90%) Nutanix
6 5 (2.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) PaaS
8 3 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.97%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.97%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.97%) SaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 60 (28.99%) DNS
2 56 (27.05%) Firewall
3 50 (24.15%) VSAN
4 27 (13.04%) WAN
5 24 (11.59%) VPN
6 22 (10.63%) BIG-IP
7 20 (9.66%) LAN
7 20 (9.66%) Wireshark
8 19 (9.18%) Network Security
9 18 (8.70%) HTTP
9 18 (8.70%) SSL
10 17 (8.21%) Cisco ISE
11 14 (6.76%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (6.28%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (6.28%) Junos
12 13 (6.28%) Wireless
13 12 (5.80%) BGP
13 12 (5.80%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (5.80%) NX-OS
14 11 (5.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.31%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.45%) GitLab
4 2 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 60 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.83%) Finance
5 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.93%) Retail
7 3 (1.45%) Legal
7 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (32.37%) Architect
2 45 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 26 (12.56%) Consultant
4 20 (9.66%) VMware Architect
4 20 (9.66%) VMware Consultant
5 19 (9.18%) VMware Engineer
6 18 (8.70%) Senior
7 15 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Lead
10 12 (5.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Junior
11 11 (5.31%) Junior Network Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.31%) Web Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.38%) LDAP
2 7 (3.38%) SAML
3 4 (1.93%) Flash
4 3 (1.45%) REST
5 2 (0.97%) Django
5 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.94%) Data Centre
2 32 (15.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (12.56%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.76%) PKI
5 7 (3.38%) Replication
6 6 (2.90%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.45%) SCADA
8 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.97%) Clustering
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.97%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.48%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.43%) Windows
2 32 (15.46%) Linux
3 27 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.93%) CatOS
8 3 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.45%) VMS
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.97%) Unix
9 2 (0.97%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.48%) Debian
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.05%) Load Balancing
2 52 (25.12%) Migration
3 38 (18.36%) CI/CD
4 33 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.46%) Containerisation
6 31 (14.98%) High Availability
7 30 (14.49%) DevOps
8 24 (11.59%) Network Virtualisation
9 23 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (9.66%) RBAC
11 18 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
11 18 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (8.21%) Use Case
13 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (7.25%) Zero Trust
15 13 (6.28%) Data Migration
15 13 (6.28%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.19%) Python
2 26 (12.56%) Bash
3 13 (6.28%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.97%) C
4 2 (0.97%) SQL
5 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 56 (27.05%) SC Cleared
3 52 (25.12%) DV Cleared
4 18 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.73%) VCAP
6 11 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.83%) CCNP
8 7 (3.38%) CISSP
9 6 (2.90%) CCIE
10 5 (2.42%) OCP
10 5 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.93%) Degree
11 4 (1.93%) VCDX
12 3 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.45%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.45%) CCSP
13 2 (0.97%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.31%) NIST
2 7 (3.38%) NCSC
3 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.93%) GDPR
3 4 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
System Software
1 121 (58.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 77 (37.20%) vSphere
3 32 (15.46%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (14.01%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.83%) Docker
5 10 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.93%) Firmware
6 4 (1.93%) vCloud
7 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.97%) NFS
8 1 (0.48%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 61 (29.47%) vCenter Server
2 59 (28.50%) Ansible
3 37 (17.87%) Terraform
4 32 (15.46%) Kubernetes
5 27 (13.04%) Argo
6 16 (7.73%) Grafana
7 13 (6.28%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (6.28%) vRealize
8 9 (4.35%) NetBackup
9 7 (3.38%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.38%) PowerCLI
10 5 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (2.42%) SCCM
11 4 (1.93%) WSUS
12 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.45%) vMotion
12 3 (1.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (1.45%) VxRail
13 2 (0.97%) Istio
13 2 (0.97%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 195 (94.20%) VMware
2 52 (25.12%) Cisco
3 34 (16.43%) F5
4 26 (12.56%) Pure Storage
5 24 (11.59%) Red Hat
6 23 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 23 (11.11%) SolarWinds
7 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
8 19 (9.18%) Splunk
9 16 (7.73%) Broadcom
9 16 (7.73%) Juniper
10 13 (6.28%) McAfee
11 11 (5.31%) Blue Coat
11 11 (5.31%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.86%) Veritas
13 6 (2.90%) Dell
13 6 (2.90%) NVIDIA
14 5 (2.42%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.42%) Zerto
15 4 (1.93%) Citrix