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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 430 325
Rank change year-on-year +31 -105 +124
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 233 80 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.29% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 5.07% 2.46% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 40 151
10th Percentile £463 £439 £400
25th Percentile £520 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £700 £590 £625
90th Percentile £778 £639 £657
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% -1.74%
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 - - -10.96%

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 4,595 3,249 3,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 11.94% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,018 2,087 2,595
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £684 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 93 116
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £33.70 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £63.48 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +58.70% +65.43% -47.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.20 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £60.17 £34.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +76.96% +40.61% -51.64%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -9 87 £610 +22.00% 9
South West -16 44 £697 +26.64% 18
London -68 38 £600 -4.00% 18
North of England -71 23 £538 +20.25% 11
Midlands -31 18 £487 +33.42% 6
West Midlands -33 15 £487 +33.42% 1
North West -37 15 £565 +5.12% 6
East of England -11 12 £513 -6.82% 6
Yorkshire -47 7 £375 -12.74% 5
East Midlands - 3 £526 - 5
North East -37 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 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.89%) AWS
2 33 (14.16%) Azure
3 11 (4.72%) GitHub
4 9 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.15%) GCP
5 5 (2.15%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.72%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.29%) OCI
8 2 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.86%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (31.33%) VSAN
2 69 (29.61%) DNS
3 56 (24.03%) Firewall
4 29 (12.45%) WAN
5 26 (11.16%) DHCP
6 23 (9.87%) LAN
6 23 (9.87%) TCP/IP
7 22 (9.44%) VPN
8 19 (8.15%) Network Security
9 16 (6.87%) IPsec
10 15 (6.44%) BGP
10 15 (6.44%) BIG-IP
10 15 (6.44%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (6.44%) SD-WAN
11 13 (5.58%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (5.58%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (5.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (4.72%) OSPF
13 11 (4.72%) VLAN
14 10 (4.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.43%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.58%) GitLab
3 5 (2.15%) Git
4 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 34 (14.59%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.01%) Finance
5 13 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.29%) Retail
8 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.86%) Legal
8 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (21.89%) Senior
2 40 (17.17%) VMware Engineer
3 39 (16.74%) Architect
4 32 (13.73%) Consultant
5 30 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (12.45%) Network Engineer
7 26 (11.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (9.44%) VMware Consultant
9 21 (9.01%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (8.58%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) Senior Network Engineer
11 18 (7.73%) Support Engineer
12 17 (7.30%) Lead
13 15 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (5.58%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 11 (4.72%) Technical Architect
15 11 (4.72%) Technical Leader
16 10 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 9 (3.86%) Network Architect
18 8 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (19.31%) Terraform
2 8 (3.43%) REST
3 5 (2.15%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.15%) YAML
4 4 (1.72%) JSON
4 4 (1.72%) LDAP
4 4 (1.72%) SAML
5 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.43%) Jinja
5 1 (0.43%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.60%) Data Centre
2 33 (14.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (13.30%) PKI
4 21 (9.01%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.44%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.29%) Replication
10 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (34.76%) Windows
2 60 (25.75%) Linux
3 41 (17.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.58%) Debian
5 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.29%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) CatOS
8 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.90%) Technical Leadership
2 53 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (18.45%) Migration
4 42 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (17.17%) Network Virtualisation
6 33 (14.16%) CI/CD
7 32 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (12.45%) Load Balancing
9 27 (11.59%) High Availability
10 24 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.87%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (9.44%) Mentoring
12 22 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (9.01%) Change Management
14 20 (8.58%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.58%) ITIL
15 19 (8.15%) Agile
15 19 (8.15%) SIEM
16 18 (7.73%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.32%) PowerShell
2 35 (15.02%) Python
3 24 (10.30%) Bash
4 16 (6.87%) SQL
5 1 (0.43%) Bicep
5 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 139 (59.66%) Security Cleared
2 92 (39.48%) DV Cleared
3 67 (28.76%) SC Cleared
4 35 (15.02%) VCAP
5 34 (14.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (6.01%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.15%) CCNP
8 8 (3.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.00%) Degree
10 4 (1.72%) CCIE
10 4 (1.72%) OCP
10 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.29%) CCNA
11 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.86%) MCSE
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.43%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.72%) NCSC
1 11 (4.72%) NIST
2 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 147 (63.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (40.77%) VMware ESXi
3 86 (36.91%) vSphere
4 54 (23.18%) Active Directory
5 23 (9.87%) vCloud
6 14 (6.01%) Docker
6 14 (6.01%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (5.15%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.29%) UAG
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.43%) NFS
9 1 (0.43%) Samba
Systems Management
1 93 (39.91%) vCenter Server
2 52 (22.32%) Ansible
3 36 (15.45%) Kubernetes
4 23 (9.87%) SCOM
5 22 (9.44%) vRealize
6 18 (7.73%) VxRail
7 12 (5.15%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.15%) PowerCLI
8 6 (2.58%) Argo
8 6 (2.58%) Grafana
9 5 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (1.29%) vMotion
12 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.86%) OPNET
12 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.86%) Puppet
12 2 (0.86%) WSUS
13 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 233 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (17.60%) Cisco
3 23 (9.87%) F5
3 23 (9.87%) Palo Alto
4 16 (6.87%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.87%) SolarWinds
5 12 (5.15%) Veritas
6 10 (4.29%) Broadcom
6 10 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.86%) Citrix
8 8 (3.43%) CheckPoint
8 8 (3.43%) NetApp
8 8 (3.43%) Zerto
9 7 (3.00%) Pure Storage
9 7 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.58%) Splunk
11 5 (2.15%) Becrypt
11 5 (2.15%) Veeam
12 4 (1.72%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.29%) CyberArk