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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 431 314
Rank change year-on-year +38 -117 +146
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 237 80 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.29% 0.67%
As % of the System Software category 5.14% 2.42% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 42 161
10th Percentile £463 £427 £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 £691 £593 £625
90th Percentile £777 £649 £657
UK median daily rate £600 £555 £538
% change year-on-year +8.11% +3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile £40.90 - -
25th Percentile £47.38 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £88.15 - £71.25
90th Percentile £98.82 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £58.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.97%

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 4,613 3,299 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.08% 11.97% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,121 2,646
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £392 £378 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £683 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 96 125
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.04 £14.06
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.88 £15.76
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% +62.82% -45.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £59.88
90th Percentile £89.75 £91.50 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £58.12 £31.39 £23.99
% change year-on-year +85.18% +30.83% -52.02%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +6 88 £610 +6.09% 9
South West -1 45 £683 +24.23% 17
London -68 39 £600 -3.61% 17
North of England -62 23 £538 +25.07% 6
Midlands -31 18 £487 +33.42% 5
North West -36 15 £565 +5.12% 5
West Midlands -41 14 £487 +33.42% 1
East of England -13 12 £513 -6.82% 6
Yorkshire -51 7 £375 -9.09% 1
East Midlands - 4 £526 - 4
North East -39 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 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.42%) nginx
2 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.52%) AWS
2 33 (13.92%) Azure
3 11 (4.64%) GitHub
4 9 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.11%) GCP
5 5 (2.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.69%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.27%) OCI
8 2 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.84%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.42%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (32.07%) VSAN
2 68 (28.69%) DNS
3 57 (24.05%) Firewall
4 31 (13.08%) WAN
5 26 (10.97%) DHCP
6 23 (9.70%) LAN
6 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
6 23 (9.70%) VPN
7 19 (8.02%) Network Security
8 16 (6.75%) IPsec
8 16 (6.75%) SD-WAN
9 15 (6.33%) BGP
9 15 (6.33%) BIG-IP
9 15 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (5.49%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (5.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (4.64%) OSPF
12 11 (4.64%) VLAN
13 10 (4.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.38%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.53%) GitLab
3 5 (2.11%) Git
4 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 37 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.91%) Finance
5 13 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.27%) Legal
7 3 (1.27%) Retail
8 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Advertising
9 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.36%) Senior
2 41 (17.30%) VMware Engineer
3 39 (16.46%) Architect
4 34 (14.35%) Consultant
5 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (12.66%) Network Engineer
7 25 (10.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (9.28%) VMware Consultant
9 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (8.86%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 19 (8.02%) Senior Network Engineer
11 18 (7.59%) Support Engineer
12 16 (6.75%) Lead
12 16 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Technical Architect
15 10 (4.22%) Technical Leader
16 9 (3.80%) Network Architect
16 9 (3.80%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.99%) Terraform
2 8 (3.38%) REST
3 5 (2.11%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.11%) YAML
4 4 (1.69%) JSON
4 4 (1.69%) LDAP
4 4 (1.69%) SAML
5 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.42%) Jinja
5 1 (0.42%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.30%) Data Centre
2 34 (14.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (13.08%) PKI
4 21 (8.86%) Public Cloud
5 16 (6.75%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.64%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.27%) Replication
10 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.42%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (34.18%) Windows
2 61 (25.74%) Linux
3 41 (17.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.53%) Debian
5 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.27%) VMS
7 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.42%) CatOS
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.58%) Technical Leadership
2 51 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (18.14%) Migration
4 41 (17.30%) Network Virtualisation
5 33 (13.92%) CI/CD
6 32 (13.50%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (12.66%) Load Balancing
8 28 (11.81%) High Availability
9 24 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (9.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (9.70%) Mentoring
11 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (8.44%) Change Management
12 20 (8.44%) DevSecOps
12 20 (8.44%) ITIL
13 19 (8.02%) Agile
13 19 (8.02%) SIEM
14 18 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.52%) PowerShell
2 35 (14.77%) Python
3 24 (10.13%) Bash
4 15 (6.33%) SQL
5 1 (0.42%) Bicep
5 1 (0.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 142 (59.92%) Security Cleared
2 94 (39.66%) DV Cleared
3 70 (29.54%) SC Cleared
4 36 (15.19%) VCAP
5 35 (14.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.06%) CCNP
8 8 (3.38%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.95%) Degree
10 4 (1.69%) CCIE
10 4 (1.69%) OCP
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.27%) CCNA
11 3 (1.27%) 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 11 (4.64%) NCSC
1 11 (4.64%) NIST
2 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 152 (64.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (39.66%) VMware ESXi
3 89 (37.55%) vSphere
4 54 (22.78%) Active Directory
5 21 (8.86%) vCloud
6 14 (5.91%) Docker
6 14 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (5.49%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.27%) UAG
8 3 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) NFS
9 1 (0.42%) Samba
Systems Management
1 92 (38.82%) vCenter Server
2 52 (21.94%) Ansible
3 36 (15.19%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.28%) vRealize
5 21 (8.86%) SCOM
6 18 (7.59%) VxRail
7 12 (5.06%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.06%) PowerCLI
8 6 (2.53%) Argo
8 6 (2.53%) Grafana
9 5 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (1.27%) vMotion
11 3 (1.27%) WSUS
12 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.84%) OPNET
12 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.84%) Puppet
13 1 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 237 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (17.30%) Cisco
3 23 (9.70%) F5
3 23 (9.70%) Palo Alto
4 17 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.75%) SolarWinds
6 12 (5.06%) Veritas
7 10 (4.22%) Broadcom
7 10 (4.22%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.80%) Citrix
9 8 (3.38%) CheckPoint
9 8 (3.38%) NetApp
9 8 (3.38%) Zerto
10 7 (2.95%) Pure Storage
10 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.53%) Splunk
12 5 (2.11%) Becrypt
12 5 (2.11%) Veeam
13 4 (1.69%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.27%) CyberArk