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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 399 340
Rank change year-on-year +21 -59 +160
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 220 80 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.32% 0.54%
As % of the System Software category 5.09% 2.56% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 44 145
10th Percentile £450 £430 £419
25th Percentile £509 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £646 £654
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile £29.00 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.00 £78.75 £67.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £82.50 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +13.40% +15.06%
75th Percentile £51.00 £86.25 £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £82.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -39.39% +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 4,321 3,121 4,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.55% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,905 2,078 2,910
10th Percentile £213 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £608
90th Percentile £681 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 75 205
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -55.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.60 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.40 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%

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 19 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware NSX in England over the 6 months to 19 June 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 19 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 -6 70 £600 +3.45% 9
London -43 46 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England -49 34 £514 +20.94% 2
South West -15 26 £575 +4.55% 3
North West -22 18 £514 +20.88% 2
Yorkshire -55 15 £511 -0.39%
Midlands - 15 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 12 £450 - 1
East of England -34 9 £510 +1.49%
East Midlands - 3 - -
North East -35 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 (1.82%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.09%) AWS
2 26 (11.82%) Azure
3 19 (8.64%) GitHub
4 18 (8.18%) OpenShift
5 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.27%) Rubrik
6 5 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.36%) GCP
8 3 (1.36%) PaaS
9 2 (0.91%) IaaS
9 2 (0.91%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.91%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.91%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.55%) DNS
1 54 (24.55%) VSAN
2 47 (21.36%) Firewall
3 30 (13.64%) WAN
4 22 (10.00%) LAN
5 20 (9.09%) Network Security
6 18 (8.18%) VPN
7 16 (7.27%) BIG-IP
7 16 (7.27%) SSL
8 14 (6.36%) Wireshark
9 13 (5.91%) HTTP
10 12 (5.45%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (5.45%) IPsec
11 11 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (5.00%) SD-WAN
12 10 (4.55%) DHCP
13 8 (3.64%) Wireless
14 7 (3.18%) BGP
14 7 (3.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (2.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.64%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.73%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.36%) GitLab
4 2 (0.91%) Git
4 2 (0.91%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 51 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.36%) Finance
5 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.36%) Legal
8 2 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (26.82%) Architect
2 34 (15.45%) Network Engineer
2 34 (15.45%) Senior
3 33 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
4 31 (14.09%) Consultant
5 27 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (9.09%) VMware Architect
7 18 (8.18%) VMware Consultant
8 17 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Support Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Technical Architect
11 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) Lead
13 11 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
14 10 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Citrix Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Junior
15 7 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.18%) LDAP
2 7 (3.18%) SAML
3 6 (2.73%) REST
4 5 (2.27%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.36%) Flash
6 2 (0.91%) Django
7 1 (0.45%) Jinja
7 1 (0.45%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 17 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.73%) PKI
4 13 (5.91%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Replication
8 2 (0.91%) Clustering
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.91%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.45%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.73%) Windows
2 42 (19.09%) Linux
3 34 (15.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.73%) Debian
7 5 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.36%) CatOS
8 3 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.91%) VMS
10 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.09%) Migration
2 42 (19.09%) Load Balancing
3 37 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (14.55%) High Availability
6 30 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (10.45%) Containerisation
9 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (10.00%) DevOps
11 21 (9.55%) Network Virtualisation
12 18 (8.18%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (7.27%) RBAC
14 15 (6.82%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (6.82%) Use Case
15 14 (6.36%) Change Management
15 14 (6.36%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (6.36%) Validation
16 13 (5.91%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.55%) Python
2 24 (10.91%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.73%) Bash
4 12 (5.45%) SQL
5 2 (0.91%) C
Qualifications
1 100 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 64 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 62 (28.18%) DV Cleared
4 24 (10.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (7.73%) VCAP
6 11 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.64%) CCNP
8 6 (2.73%) OCP
8 6 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.82%) CCNA
9 4 (1.82%) Degree
10 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.91%) CISSP
11 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.91%) GSEC
11 2 (0.91%) MCSE
11 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CCIE
12 1 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.91%) NIST
2 9 (4.09%) NCSC
3 5 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.91%) NIST 800
System Software
1 136 (61.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (33.64%) vSphere
3 67 (30.45%) VMware ESXi
4 38 (17.27%) Active Directory
5 15 (6.82%) vCloud
6 10 (4.55%) 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 71 (32.27%) vCenter Server
2 41 (18.64%) Ansible
3 28 (12.73%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.45%) Terraform
5 20 (9.09%) vRealize
6 18 (8.18%) Argo
7 13 (5.91%) Grafana
7 13 (5.91%) NetBackup
8 11 (5.00%) SCOM
8 11 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.64%) PowerCLI
10 7 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.82%) SCCM
12 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.36%) VxRail
12 3 (1.36%) WSUS
13 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.91%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.91%) vMotion
14 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 220 (100.00%) VMware
2 36 (16.36%) Cisco
3 25 (11.36%) F5
4 19 (8.64%) Palo Alto
5 18 (8.18%) Microsoft
5 18 (8.18%) Pure Storage
6 16 (7.27%) Splunk
7 14 (6.36%) Red Hat
8 12 (5.45%) Veritas
9 11 (5.00%) CheckPoint
10 10 (4.55%) Broadcom
10 10 (4.55%) SolarWinds
11 9 (4.09%) Citrix
11 9 (4.09%) Zerto
12 8 (3.64%) McAfee
13 7 (3.18%) NetApp
14 6 (2.73%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.27%) NVIDIA
16 4 (1.82%) Dell
16 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow