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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 437 324
Rank change year-on-year +29 -113 +140
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 235 73 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.27% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 5.21% 2.23% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 38 161
10th Percentile £463 £419 £413
25th Percentile £513 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +4.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £655 £614 £625
90th Percentile £769 £654 £657
UK median daily rate £575 £563 £538
% change year-on-year +2.22% +4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £37.50 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.38 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £94.10 - £76.31
90th Percentile £98.82 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.07%

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 4,509 3,275 3,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.95% 11.90% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,973 2,145 2,733
10th Percentile £218 £225 £221
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 86 147
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.75 £22.63 £14.99
Median hourly rate £56.25 £37.07 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +51.73% +65.50% -44.00%
75th Percentile £74.20 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £84.88 £90.75 £70.90
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £23.80
% change year-on-year +60.21% +37.69% -52.40%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +11 85 £600 +1.69% 6
London -44 41 £575 -5.15% 8
South West -17 40 £644 +17.05% 9
North of England -66 26 £514 +19.60% 7
Midlands -35 18 £494 +35.21% 1
West Midlands -47 15 £494 +35.21% 1
Yorkshire -53 13 £511 +23.76% 2
East of England -14 12 £513 -6.82% 2
North West -48 12 £519 -3.49% 5
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 (1.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.13%) AWS
2 35 (14.89%) Azure
3 18 (7.66%) GitHub
4 15 (6.38%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.13%) GCP
6 5 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.13%) Rubrik
7 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (29.79%) VSAN
2 66 (28.09%) DNS
3 59 (25.11%) Firewall
4 34 (14.47%) WAN
5 25 (10.64%) DHCP
5 25 (10.64%) VPN
6 24 (10.21%) LAN
7 23 (9.79%) TCP/IP
8 21 (8.94%) Network Security
9 17 (7.23%) SD-WAN
10 16 (6.81%) IPsec
11 15 (6.38%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (5.53%) BGP
12 13 (5.53%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (5.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (5.11%) BIG-IP
13 12 (5.11%) OSPF
13 12 (5.11%) SSL
14 11 (4.68%) VLAN
15 9 (3.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.40%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.66%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.70%) Git
3 3 (1.28%) GitLab
3 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.85%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 46 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.11%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (5.11%) Finance
5 8 (3.40%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.28%) Legal
7 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (20.43%) Senior
2 47 (20.00%) Architect
3 38 (16.17%) VMware Engineer
4 35 (14.89%) Consultant
5 33 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (13.19%) Network Engineer
7 22 (9.36%) VMware Consultant
8 21 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (8.51%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Support Engineer
11 16 (6.81%) Lead
11 16 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.96%) Technical Architect
13 12 (5.11%) VMware Architect
14 11 (4.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 10 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
16 7 (2.98%) Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (2.13%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.70%) LDAP
3 4 (1.70%) REST
3 4 (1.70%) SAML
4 3 (1.28%) Flash
5 1 (0.43%) Jinja
5 1 (0.43%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.17%) Data Centre
2 35 (14.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (14.04%) PKI
4 18 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.66%) Public Cloud
5 16 (6.81%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.70%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.28%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Clustering
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (31.49%) Windows
2 59 (25.11%) Linux
3 40 (17.02%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.55%) Debian
4 6 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.28%) VMS
7 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.43%) CatOS
8 1 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.13%) Technical Leadership
2 49 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.00%) Migration
4 43 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (17.45%) CI/CD
5 41 (17.45%) Network Virtualisation
6 38 (16.17%) High Availability
7 37 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (14.47%) Load Balancing
9 26 (11.06%) Containerisation
10 25 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 24 (10.21%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (8.94%) DevOps
12 21 (8.94%) ITIL
13 20 (8.51%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.09%) Mentoring
15 18 (7.66%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (7.23%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.45%) PowerShell
2 38 (16.17%) Python
3 30 (12.77%) Bash
4 14 (5.96%) SQL
5 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 139 (59.15%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.87%) DV Cleared
3 76 (32.34%) SC Cleared
4 33 (14.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 30 (12.77%) VCAP
6 16 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.53%) CCNP
8 7 (2.98%) Degree
9 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.55%) OCP
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.70%) CCIE
10 4 (1.70%) CCNA
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.85%) MCSE
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.43%) CCDP
13 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.96%) NCSC
1 14 (5.96%) NIST
2 5 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 148 (62.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (37.02%) vSphere
3 85 (36.17%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (22.55%) Active Directory
5 16 (6.81%) vCloud
6 14 (5.96%) Hyper-V
7 12 (5.11%) Docker
7 12 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.28%) UAG
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Samba
Systems Management
1 91 (38.72%) vCenter Server
2 53 (22.55%) Ansible
3 42 (17.87%) Terraform
4 41 (17.45%) Kubernetes
5 21 (8.94%) vRealize
6 17 (7.23%) VxRail
7 16 (6.81%) Argo
7 16 (6.81%) SCOM
8 13 (5.53%) NetBackup
9 12 (5.11%) Grafana
10 8 (3.40%) PowerCLI
11 6 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.70%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (1.28%) WSUS
15 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
15 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
15 2 (0.85%) Puppet
15 2 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 235 (100.00%) VMware
2 39 (16.60%) Cisco
3 26 (11.06%) Palo Alto
4 21 (8.94%) Microsoft
5 20 (8.51%) F5
6 16 (6.81%) Pure Storage
6 16 (6.81%) SolarWinds
7 13 (5.53%) Broadcom
7 13 (5.53%) Splunk
8 12 (5.11%) Red Hat
8 12 (5.11%) Veritas
9 9 (3.83%) Citrix
9 9 (3.83%) Zerto
10 8 (3.40%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.40%) NetApp
11 5 (2.13%) Becrypt
11 5 (2.13%) NVIDIA
11 5 (2.13%) Veeam
12 4 (1.70%) McAfee
12 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow