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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 366 387
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 +165
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 210 110 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 4.89% 3.52% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 68 107
10th Percentile £375 £463 £442
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £527
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.36% +2.83%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £625
90th Percentile £688 £652 £663
UK median daily rate £564 £550 £535
% change year-on-year +2.55% +2.80% +4.39%
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 £60.55 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -38.18% +29.41% -1.34%

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 4,296 3,121 4,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.75% 12.76% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 2,164 2,812
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 76 211
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.85 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.89% +27.27% -56.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.63 £58.09
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.13 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -57.14%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -41 53 £610 +1.67% 11
London -44 48 £525 -12.50% 4
North of England -42 40 £522 +12.76% 2
South West -34 24 £535 -2.73% 4
North West -19 21 £514 +11.08% 1
Yorkshire -51 18 £514 +0.29% 1
Midlands -43 15 £420 -36.51% 1
West Midlands -45 13 £340 -48.60% 1
East of England -38 11 £510 +1.49% 1
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
North East -18 1 £675 +8.00%
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 (1.90%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.90%) AWS
2 23 (10.95%) OpenShift
3 22 (10.48%) Azure
4 21 (10.00%) GitHub
5 8 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.38%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.90%) PaaS
8 3 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.43%) GCP
9 2 (0.95%) IaaS
9 2 (0.95%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.95%) SaaS
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 57 (27.14%) Firewall
2 53 (25.24%) VSAN
3 49 (23.33%) DNS
4 26 (12.38%) WAN
5 22 (10.48%) VPN
6 21 (10.00%) BIG-IP
7 19 (9.05%) LAN
7 19 (9.05%) Network Security
7 19 (9.05%) Wireshark
8 18 (8.57%) SSL
9 17 (8.10%) HTTP
10 13 (6.19%) NX-OS
11 11 (5.24%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (4.76%) Wireless
13 9 (4.29%) IPsec
13 9 (4.29%) TCP/IP
14 8 (3.81%) BGP
14 8 (3.81%) DHCP
14 8 (3.81%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.33%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.29%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.43%) GitLab
4 2 (0.95%) JIRA
5 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 59 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.76%) Finance
5 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.38%) Retail
6 3 (1.43%) Legal
7 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (30.48%) Architect
2 41 (19.52%) Network Engineer
3 27 (12.86%) VMware Engineer
4 26 (12.38%) Consultant
5 25 (11.90%) Senior
6 21 (10.00%) VMware Architect
7 18 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (7.62%) Lead
8 16 (7.62%) VMware Consultant
9 13 (6.19%) Technical Architect
10 12 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Junior
11 10 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Junior Network Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Web Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (3.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 7 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.81%) LDAP
2 8 (3.81%) SAML
3 4 (1.90%) Flash
3 4 (1.90%) REST
4 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.95%) Django
5 1 (0.48%) Jinja
5 1 (0.48%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (15.24%) Data Centre
3 27 (12.86%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.67%) PKI
5 10 (4.76%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.86%) Replication
7 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.43%) SCADA
7 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.95%) Clustering
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.95%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.48%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.67%) Windows
2 34 (16.19%) Linux
3 24 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) CatOS
8 3 (1.43%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.43%) VMS
8 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.95%) Debian
9 2 (0.95%) Unix
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.81%) Migration
2 46 (21.90%) Load Balancing
3 33 (15.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (15.24%) High Availability
5 31 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 27 (12.86%) Containerisation
8 26 (12.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (11.90%) DevOps
10 24 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (9.05%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (8.57%) Use Case
13 17 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (7.62%) RBAC
15 15 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
16 14 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
17 13 (6.19%) Runbook
17 13 (6.19%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.67%) Python
2 19 (9.05%) Bash
3 13 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.95%) C
5 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (39.52%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.19%) DV Cleared
3 52 (24.76%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.62%) VCAP
6 10 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.81%) CCNP
8 6 (2.86%) OCP
8 6 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.90%) VCDX
10 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.43%) CCIE
10 3 (1.43%) CISSP
10 3 (1.43%) Degree
11 2 (0.95%) CCSM
11 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.95%) GSEC
11 2 (0.95%) MCSE
11 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) NIST
2 9 (4.29%) NCSC
3 5 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (61.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (36.19%) vSphere
3 46 (21.90%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (12.38%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.90%) Firmware
6 4 (1.90%) vCloud
7 3 (1.43%) Docker
8 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.95%) NFS
9 1 (0.48%) SRDF
9 1 (0.48%) UAG
Systems Management
1 55 (26.19%) vCenter Server
2 46 (21.90%) Ansible
3 27 (12.86%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.90%) Terraform
5 21 (10.00%) Argo
6 18 (8.57%) vRealize
7 15 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (6.67%) Grafana
9 12 (5.71%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.81%) PowerCLI
11 7 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (3.33%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.38%) SCCM
13 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.43%) WSUS
14 2 (0.95%) Istio
14 2 (0.95%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.95%) vMotion
14 2 (0.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 2 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 204 (97.14%) VMware
2 45 (21.43%) Cisco
3 30 (14.29%) F5
4 22 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 22 (10.48%) Palo Alto
5 20 (9.52%) Pure Storage
6 19 (9.05%) Red Hat
7 18 (8.57%) Broadcom
8 17 (8.10%) Splunk
9 13 (6.19%) CheckPoint
9 13 (6.19%) SolarWinds
10 11 (5.24%) McAfee
10 11 (5.24%) Veritas
11 9 (4.29%) Blue Coat
12 8 (3.81%) Zerto
13 7 (3.33%) Juniper
14 6 (2.86%) Dell
15 5 (2.38%) Citrix
15 5 (2.38%) NetApp
15 5 (2.38%) NVIDIA