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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 340 438
Rank change year-on-year -93 +98 +157
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 79 190 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 2.34% 4.94% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 136 109
10th Percentile £437 £400 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £595 £626 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £658
UK median daily rate £555 £538 £547
% change year-on-year +3.26% -1.74% +0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £61.72
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - £71.69
90th Percentile - - £76.22
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -24.22% -13.18%

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 3,382 3,850 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.69% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,584 3,763
10th Percentile £214 £218 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX 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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 2025. 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 -13 29 £525 -5.62% 14
North of England -1 19 £447 -29.88% 9
London -4 17 £623 +28.46% 5
South West -12 13 £550 +2.33% 5
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
North West -15 6 £538 -15.69% 7
West Midlands -43 1 £365 -39.92%
Midlands -49 1 £365 -39.92% 5
North East - 1 £625 - 2
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.86%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.53%) nginx
4 2 (2.53%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.27%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.92%) AWS
1 11 (13.92%) Azure
2 7 (8.86%) OpenShift
3 5 (6.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 5 (6.33%) IaaS
4 4 (5.06%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) SaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) Route 53
7 1 (1.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.65%) VSAN
2 18 (22.78%) DNS
3 13 (16.46%) Firewall
3 13 (16.46%) WAN
4 11 (13.92%) BGP
5 10 (12.66%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (12.66%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (12.66%) LAN
5 10 (12.66%) OSPF
6 9 (11.39%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (11.39%) Junos
7 8 (10.13%) NAS
7 8 (10.13%) SAN
8 7 (8.86%) VLAN
9 6 (7.59%) MPLS
9 6 (7.59%) SNMP
9 6 (7.59%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (7.59%) TACACS
9 6 (7.59%) VPN
9 6 (7.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
1 9 (11.39%) GitLab
2 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) JIRA
4 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.13%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Billing
4 3 (3.80%) Finance
4 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.53%) French Language
5 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) Network Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Architect
3 12 (15.19%) Consultant
4 10 (12.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (11.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Network Support
6 8 (10.13%) Network Support Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) VMware Consultant
7 7 (8.86%) VMware Architect
8 6 (7.59%) Designer
8 6 (7.59%) IP Designer
8 6 (7.59%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) Data Centre
2 16 (20.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.06%) PKI
4 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Replication
5 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.27%) Clustering
7 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.27%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.91%) Windows
2 20 (25.32%) Windows Server
3 14 (17.72%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) VMS
4 3 (3.80%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.25%) Migration
2 15 (18.99%) Network Virtualisation
3 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (16.46%) Agile
5 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (13.92%) Service Management
7 10 (12.66%) Validation
8 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (11.39%) ITSM
9 7 (8.86%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (8.86%) Kanban
9 7 (8.86%) Scrum
10 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.59%) Incident Response
10 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (6.33%) Data Protection
11 5 (6.33%) Zero Trust
12 4 (5.06%) Change Management
12 4 (5.06%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.80%) SQL
5 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 32 (40.51%) DV Cleared
3 20 (25.32%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (12.66%) VCAP
6 9 (11.39%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (8.86%) AWS Certification
7 7 (8.86%) CCIE
8 6 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (7.59%) Degree
8 6 (7.59%) JNCIE
9 5 (6.33%) VCDX
10 3 (3.80%) CCNP
10 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.53%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.53%) MCSE
12 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.27%) CCDP
12 1 (1.27%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (1.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.27%) NIST
1 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (60.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (46.84%) vSphere
3 27 (34.18%) Active Directory
4 15 (18.99%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (11.39%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (6.33%) Firmware
7 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.53%) KVM
8 2 (2.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) vCenter Server
2 25 (31.65%) Ansible
3 18 (22.78%) vRealize
4 17 (21.52%) Terraform
5 10 (12.66%) PowerCLI
6 6 (7.59%) VxRail
7 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
7 5 (6.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (5.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.53%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.53%) HAProxy
9 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.53%) WSUS
10 1 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.27%) Istio
10 1 (1.27%) Nessus
10 1 (1.27%) Packer
10 1 (1.27%) SCCM
10 1 (1.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 70 (88.61%) VMware
2 28 (35.44%) Cisco
3 17 (21.52%) Juniper
4 16 (20.25%) F5
5 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
5 12 (15.19%) SolarWinds
6 7 (8.86%) Fortinet
6 7 (8.86%) Veeam
7 6 (7.59%) NetApp
8 3 (3.80%) Dell
8 3 (3.80%) Infoblox
8 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.53%) Arista
9 2 (2.53%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.53%) Computacenter
9 2 (2.53%) Google
9 2 (2.53%) Splunk
10 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.27%) Red Hat