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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 444 309
Rank change year-on-year +51 -135 +149
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 238 71 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.26% 0.68%
As % of the System Software category 5.18% 2.17% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 37 165
10th Percentile £463 £418 £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 £670 £600 £625
90th Percentile £785 £650 £657
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £40.90 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.38 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £88.15 - £76.31
90th Percentile £98.82 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.29%

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 4,591 3,273 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 11.84% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,026 2,114 2,701
10th Percentile £215 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £385 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 93 130
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.10 £14.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.41% +65.43% -33.30%
75th Percentile £74.20 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.48 £91.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £33.64 £24.18
% change year-on-year +60.55% +39.10% -49.45%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +2 87 £608 +4.74% 6
South West -18 44 £670 +21.82% 10
London -48 40 £613 -1.21% 15
North of England -60 24 £514 +19.60% 6
Midlands -33 16 £487 +33.42%
North West -34 14 £551 +2.56% 6
West Midlands -41 13 £487 +33.42%
East of England -13 12 £513 -6.82% 3
Yorkshire -44 9 £388 -6.06%
East Midlands - 3 - -
North East -43 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 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.84%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (22.69%) AWS
2 36 (15.13%) Azure
3 12 (5.04%) GitHub
4 9 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (2.94%) OpenShift
6 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.10%) GCP
6 5 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.10%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.26%) OCI
8 2 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.84%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 76 (31.93%) VSAN
2 65 (27.31%) DNS
3 58 (24.37%) Firewall
4 33 (13.87%) WAN
5 27 (11.34%) DHCP
6 24 (10.08%) VPN
7 23 (9.66%) LAN
7 23 (9.66%) TCP/IP
8 19 (7.98%) Network Security
9 17 (7.14%) SD-WAN
10 16 (6.72%) IPsec
11 15 (6.30%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (5.88%) BGP
12 14 (5.88%) BIG-IP
13 13 (5.46%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (5.46%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (4.62%) OSPF
14 11 (4.62%) VLAN
15 10 (4.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.36%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.10%) Git
2 5 (2.10%) GitLab
3 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 42 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.50%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (5.46%) Finance
6 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.68%) Legal
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 52 (21.85%) Senior
2 42 (17.65%) Architect
3 40 (16.81%) VMware Engineer
4 35 (14.71%) Consultant
5 33 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (12.61%) Network Engineer
7 22 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.24%) VMware Consultant
8 20 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (8.40%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 19 (7.98%) Senior Network Engineer
10 18 (7.56%) Support Engineer
11 17 (7.14%) Lead
12 16 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (5.88%) Technical Architect
14 11 (4.62%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 10 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (3.78%) Technical Leader
16 9 (3.78%) VMware Architect
17 8 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.94%) REST
2 6 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.10%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.68%) LDAP
4 4 (1.68%) SAML
5 3 (1.26%) JSON
5 3 (1.26%) YAML
6 2 (0.84%) Flash
7 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.42%) Jinja
7 1 (0.42%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.81%) Data Centre
2 35 (14.71%) PKI
3 33 (13.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (9.24%) Public Cloud
5 16 (6.72%) Private Cloud
6 12 (5.04%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.68%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.26%) Replication
10 2 (0.84%) Clustering
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 82 (34.45%) Windows
2 63 (26.47%) Linux
3 42 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.52%) Debian
4 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.26%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.26%) VMS
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.42%) CatOS
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.21%) Technical Leadership
2 49 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (18.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (18.49%) Network Virtualisation
5 42 (17.65%) Migration
6 40 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.45%) High Availability
9 30 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (12.18%) Load Balancing
11 23 (9.66%) Mentoring
12 22 (9.24%) DevSecOps
13 21 (8.82%) ITIL
14 20 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (8.40%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (7.98%) Change Management
15 19 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (7.98%) SIEM
15 19 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 35 (14.71%) Python
3 26 (10.92%) Bash
4 15 (6.30%) SQL
5 1 (0.42%) Bicep
5 1 (0.42%) Java
Qualifications
1 144 (60.50%) Security Cleared
2 96 (40.34%) DV Cleared
3 76 (31.93%) SC Cleared
4 33 (13.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 32 (13.45%) VCAP
6 15 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.04%) CCNP
8 8 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.94%) Degree
10 5 (2.10%) OCP
10 5 (2.10%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.68%) CCIE
11 4 (1.68%) CCNA
12 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.84%) MCSE
14 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.88%) NCSC
1 14 (5.88%) NIST
2 5 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 152 (63.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 89 (37.39%) VMware ESXi
3 85 (35.71%) vSphere
4 56 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 19 (7.98%) vCloud
6 14 (5.88%) Docker
6 14 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 14 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.26%) UAG
7 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) NFS
8 1 (0.42%) Samba
Systems Management
1 88 (36.97%) vCenter Server
2 50 (21.01%) Ansible
3 42 (17.65%) Terraform
4 35 (14.71%) Kubernetes
5 21 (8.82%) vRealize
6 19 (7.98%) SCOM
6 19 (7.98%) VxRail
7 13 (5.46%) NetBackup
8 8 (3.36%) Argo
8 8 (3.36%) PowerCLI
9 7 (2.94%) Grafana
10 6 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (1.26%) vMotion
13 3 (1.26%) WSUS
14 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 238 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (17.23%) Cisco
3 26 (10.92%) Palo Alto
4 22 (9.24%) F5
4 22 (9.24%) Microsoft
5 16 (6.72%) SolarWinds
6 12 (5.04%) Broadcom
6 12 (5.04%) Veritas
7 9 (3.78%) Citrix
7 9 (3.78%) Pure Storage
7 9 (3.78%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.78%) Zerto
8 8 (3.36%) CheckPoint
8 8 (3.36%) NetApp
8 8 (3.36%) Splunk
9 6 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.10%) Becrypt
10 5 (2.10%) Veeam
11 4 (1.68%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.26%) Thales