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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 418 348
Rank change year-on-year +26 -70 +134
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 241 81 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.36% 2.47% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 42 162
10th Percentile £463 £414 £425
25th Percentile £513 £492 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £625
90th Percentile £749 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £34.10 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.13 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile £96.93 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.06%

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 4,498 3,286 4,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.08% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,152 2,851
10th Percentile £213 £215 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 87 185
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.81 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -50.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.35 £58.49
90th Percentile £84.88 £90.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +52.76% +40.27% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +10 83 £600 +1.69% 4
London -53 50 £575 -4.17% 6
South West -23 36 £613 +11.36% 4
North of England -64 31 £514 +20.94% 3
Midlands -41 17 £500 +36.99% 1
North West -40 15 £514 +6.75% 3
Yorkshire -42 15 £511 +23.76%
West Midlands -46 14 £500 +36.99% 1
East of England -20 11 £513 -5.09% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
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 (1.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.83%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.41%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.67%) AWS
2 33 (13.69%) Azure
3 19 (7.88%) GitHub
4 17 (7.05%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.07%) GCP
6 5 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.07%) Rubrik
7 2 (0.83%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.83%) IBM Watson
8 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 66 (27.39%) VSAN
2 64 (26.56%) DNS
3 59 (24.48%) Firewall
4 35 (14.52%) WAN
5 26 (10.79%) LAN
5 26 (10.79%) VPN
6 25 (10.37%) Network Security
7 18 (7.47%) DHCP
8 17 (7.05%) TCP/IP
9 16 (6.64%) IPsec
9 16 (6.64%) SD-WAN
10 15 (6.22%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (5.39%) BIG-IP
11 13 (5.39%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (5.39%) SSL
12 12 (4.98%) BGP
12 12 (4.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (4.56%) OSPF
13 11 (4.56%) VLAN
14 9 (3.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (7.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.24%) Fiddler
2 3 (1.24%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) GitLab
3 2 (0.83%) JIRA
3 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 51 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.96%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.22%) Finance
5 13 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.24%) Legal
8 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.41%) Advertising
9 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 54 (22.41%) Architect
2 46 (19.09%) Senior
3 39 (16.18%) VMware Engineer
4 36 (14.94%) Consultant
5 33 (13.69%) Network Engineer
6 31 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (9.54%) VMware Consultant
8 20 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (7.47%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 17 (7.05%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (7.05%) Support Engineer
10 17 (7.05%) Technical Architect
11 15 (6.22%) Lead
11 15 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.39%) VMware Architect
13 11 (4.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 9 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.90%) Citrix Engineer
15 7 (2.90%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (2.07%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.66%) LDAP
3 4 (1.66%) SAML
4 3 (1.24%) Flash
4 3 (1.24%) REST
5 2 (0.83%) Django
6 1 (0.41%) Jinja
6 1 (0.41%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.52%) Data Centre
1 35 (14.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (11.20%) PKI
3 20 (8.30%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.64%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.22%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.66%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.24%) Replication
9 2 (0.83%) Clustering
9 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.80%) Windows
2 54 (22.41%) Linux
3 40 (16.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.49%) Debian
4 6 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.24%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) CatOS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.99%) Migration
2 48 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (19.09%) Technical Leadership
4 40 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (16.18%) High Availability
6 38 (15.77%) CI/CD
6 38 (15.77%) Load Balancing
7 35 (14.52%) Network Virtualisation
8 32 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (10.79%) Containerisation
10 25 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (9.13%) DevOps
12 20 (8.30%) ITIL
13 18 (7.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (7.47%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (7.05%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (6.64%) Change Management
15 16 (6.64%) RBAC
15 16 (6.64%) Zero Trust
16 15 (6.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.94%) Python
2 33 (13.69%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.37%) Bash
4 14 (5.81%) SQL
5 2 (0.83%) C
6 1 (0.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (55.19%) Security Cleared
2 86 (35.68%) DV Cleared
3 74 (30.71%) SC Cleared
4 31 (12.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 24 (9.96%) VCAP
6 15 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.98%) CCNP
8 7 (2.90%) Degree
9 6 (2.49%) OCP
9 6 (2.49%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.66%) CCNA
11 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.24%) CCIE
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.83%) MCSE
13 1 (0.41%) CCDP
13 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.81%) NCSC
1 14 (5.81%) NIST
2 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 147 (61.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (35.68%) vSphere
3 81 (33.61%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (19.92%) Active Directory
5 17 (7.05%) vCloud
6 11 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.15%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.90%) Docker
9 3 (1.24%) UAG
10 1 (0.41%) NFS
10 1 (0.41%) Samba
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (36.93%) vCenter Server
2 51 (21.16%) Ansible
3 37 (15.35%) Terraform
4 36 (14.94%) Kubernetes
5 20 (8.30%) vRealize
6 18 (7.47%) Argo
7 15 (6.22%) SCOM
8 13 (5.39%) Grafana
8 13 (5.39%) NetBackup
9 10 (4.15%) VxRail
10 8 (3.32%) PowerCLI
11 7 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.66%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (1.24%) WSUS
15 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
15 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
15 2 (0.83%) vMotion
16 1 (0.41%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 241 (100.00%) VMware
2 42 (17.43%) Cisco
3 25 (10.37%) Palo Alto
4 22 (9.13%) F5
5 20 (8.30%) Microsoft
6 18 (7.47%) Pure Storage
7 16 (6.64%) SolarWinds
7 16 (6.64%) Splunk
8 13 (5.39%) Broadcom
8 13 (5.39%) Red Hat
9 12 (4.98%) Veritas
10 9 (3.73%) Citrix
10 9 (3.73%) Zerto
11 8 (3.32%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.32%) NetApp
12 5 (2.07%) Becrypt
12 5 (2.07%) Dell
12 5 (2.07%) McAfee
12 5 (2.07%) NVIDIA
12 5 (2.07%) Veeam