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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 356 378
Rank change year-on-year -30 +22 +186
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 217 116 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 5.01% 3.65% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 72 103
10th Percentile £438 £463 £434
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +4.72% +0.95%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £537
% change year-on-year - +2.42% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £46.00 £77.63 £65.18
25th Percentile £48.00 £77.81 £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +11.68% +15.06%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £76.31
90th Percentile £70.10 £85.88 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 £63.75
% change year-on-year -37.23% +27.45% -1.34%

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 4,332 3,177 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.08% 13.05% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 2,207 2,850
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 82 202
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.71 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.89% +36.69% -47.50%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £57.45
90th Percentile £79.95 £85.88 £69.86
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% +28.89% -55.00%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -27 57 £600 - 16
London -36 45 £525 -12.50% 12
North of England -42 44 £522 +9.79% 11
North West -12 25 £514 +8.16% 7
South West -29 24 £550 - 10
Midlands -45 19 £538 -18.75%
Yorkshire -46 18 £514 +0.29% 3
West Midlands -44 16 £513 -22.52%
East of England -40 11 £510 +1.49%
East Midlands - 3 £550 -
North East -16 1 £675 +8.00% 1
South Coast - 1 £575 -
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 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) JBoss
3 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.13%) AWS
2 33 (15.21%) Azure
3 29 (13.36%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.68%) GitHub
5 8 (3.69%) GCP
5 8 (3.69%) IaaS
5 8 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.76%) Nutanix
6 6 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.84%) PaaS
9 3 (1.38%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.92%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.92%) IBM Watson
10 2 (0.92%) SaaS
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.46%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 60 (27.65%) Firewall
2 58 (26.73%) DNS
3 49 (22.58%) VSAN
4 28 (12.90%) WAN
5 24 (11.06%) VPN
6 22 (10.14%) LAN
7 21 (9.68%) BIG-IP
8 19 (8.76%) Network Security
8 19 (8.76%) Wireshark
9 17 (7.83%) HTTP
9 17 (7.83%) SSL
10 13 (5.99%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (5.99%) NX-OS
10 13 (5.99%) Wireless
11 12 (5.53%) BGP
11 12 (5.53%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (5.07%) SD-WAN
13 10 (4.61%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (4.61%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (4.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.76%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (11.98%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.61%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.46%) Git
General
1 63 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.53%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.61%) Finance
6 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.30%) Retail
7 3 (1.38%) Legal
7 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (32.72%) Architect
2 43 (19.82%) Network Engineer
3 27 (12.44%) Consultant
4 23 (10.60%) VMware Engineer
5 21 (9.68%) Senior
5 21 (9.68%) VMware Architect
6 19 (8.76%) VMware Consultant
7 16 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.91%) Lead
9 13 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.07%) Junior
12 10 (4.61%) Junior Network Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Web Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 8 (3.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.23%) LDAP
2 7 (3.23%) SAML
3 4 (1.84%) Flash
3 4 (1.84%) REST
4 2 (0.92%) Django
5 1 (0.46%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.46%) Jinja
5 1 (0.46%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 33 (15.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (12.44%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.99%) PKI
5 9 (4.15%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.76%) Replication
7 4 (1.84%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.38%) SCADA
8 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.92%) Clustering
9 2 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.92%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.92%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (0.46%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.05%) Linux
2 36 (16.59%) Windows
3 26 (11.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.84%) CatOS
8 3 (1.38%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.38%) VMS
8 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.92%) Debian
9 2 (0.92%) Unix
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.73%) Load Balancing
2 52 (23.96%) Migration
3 39 (17.97%) CI/CD
4 33 (15.21%) High Availability
4 33 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (14.75%) Containerisation
6 31 (14.29%) DevOps
7 28 (12.90%) Network Virtualisation
8 24 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (10.14%) RBAC
10 21 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (8.76%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (8.29%) Use Case
13 17 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.83%) Zero Trust
14 16 (7.37%) Knowledge Transfer
15 13 (5.99%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (5.99%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.20%) Python
2 25 (11.52%) Bash
3 14 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.92%) C
5 1 (0.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (41.01%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 52 (23.96%) DV Cleared
4 20 (9.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (6.91%) VCAP
6 13 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.07%) CCNP
8 6 (2.76%) CCIE
8 6 (2.76%) CISSP
8 6 (2.76%) OCP
8 6 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (2.30%) Degree
10 4 (1.84%) VCDX
11 3 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.38%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.38%) CCSP
12 2 (0.92%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.07%) NIST
2 7 (3.23%) NCSC
3 4 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.84%) GDPR
3 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (59.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 81 (37.33%) vSphere
3 38 (17.51%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (11.98%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (4.15%) Docker
7 4 (1.84%) Firmware
7 4 (1.84%) vCloud
8 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.92%) NFS
9 1 (0.46%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 59 (27.19%) vCenter Server
2 58 (26.73%) Ansible
3 36 (16.59%) Terraform
4 31 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 27 (12.44%) Argo
6 15 (6.91%) vRealize
7 14 (6.45%) Grafana
7 14 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (4.61%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.69%) PowerCLI
10 7 (3.23%) FortiGate
11 6 (2.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (2.30%) SCCM
13 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (1.38%) WSUS
14 2 (0.92%) Istio
14 2 (0.92%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.92%) vMotion
14 2 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 209 (96.31%) VMware
2 50 (23.04%) Cisco
3 35 (16.13%) F5
4 26 (11.98%) Pure Storage
5 24 (11.06%) Palo Alto
5 24 (11.06%) Red Hat
6 19 (8.76%) Microsoft
7 18 (8.29%) SolarWinds
8 17 (7.83%) Splunk
9 16 (7.37%) Broadcom
10 12 (5.53%) CheckPoint
10 12 (5.53%) Juniper
10 12 (5.53%) McAfee
11 10 (4.61%) Blue Coat
12 9 (4.15%) Veritas
13 6 (2.76%) Dell
13 6 (2.76%) Zerto
14 5 (2.30%) Citrix
14 5 (2.30%) Meraki
14 5 (2.30%) NVIDIA