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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 390 424
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 +155
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 167 99 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 3.99% 3.07% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 59 68
10th Percentile £463 £460 £425
25th Percentile £500 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.79%
75th Percentile £616 £627 £625
90th Percentile £681 £657 £693
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £77.63 -
25th Percentile £96.25 £77.81 -
Median hourly rate £97.50 £81.25 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +23.14% +4.35%
75th Percentile £98.75 £85.31 £76.25
90th Percentile - £85.88 -
UK median hourly rate £97.50 £81.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +20.00% +23.14% +4.35%

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 4,189 3,220 4,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.11% 12.47% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 2,113 2,970
10th Percentile £201 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £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 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £480
% change year-on-year -3.15% +7.55% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 222
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.05 £17.29
Median hourly rate £31.86 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% -27.50% +1.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £65.74
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +17.24% -33.71% +9.38%

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 18 February 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
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 18 February 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 -12 46 £500 -16.67% 5
London -24 37 £550 -8.33% 6
North of England -30 33 £522 +9.79% 8
North West -16 19 £490 +3.16% 4
Midlands -41 17 £550 -16.86% 1
South West -26 16 £550 - 10
West Midlands -36 15 £525 -20.63% 1
Yorkshire - 14 £529 - 4
East of England -30 5 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
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 7 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.40%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (1.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.17%) OpenShift
2 20 (11.98%) Azure
3 19 (11.38%) AWS
4 14 (8.38%) GitHub
5 9 (5.39%) IaaS
6 8 (4.79%) GCP
7 5 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (2.99%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.40%) PaaS
8 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.20%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.20%) SaaS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (32.34%) DNS
2 49 (29.34%) Firewall
3 28 (16.77%) VSAN
4 23 (13.77%) Cisco ISE
5 20 (11.98%) BIG-IP
5 20 (11.98%) Cisco Firepower
5 20 (11.98%) VPN
5 20 (11.98%) WAN
6 19 (11.38%) Cisco IOS
6 19 (11.38%) Junos
6 19 (11.38%) LAN
6 19 (11.38%) Wireshark
7 17 (10.18%) HTTP
7 17 (10.18%) SSL
8 16 (9.58%) BGP
8 16 (9.58%) Network Security
9 13 (7.78%) Wireless
10 12 (7.19%) NX-OS
11 11 (6.59%) OSPF
11 11 (6.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (11.98%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.59%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.80%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.78%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Finance
6 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (33.53%) Architect
2 45 (26.95%) Network Engineer
3 21 (12.57%) VMware Architect
4 19 (11.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 19 (11.38%) Consultant
4 19 (11.38%) VMware Consultant
5 18 (10.78%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) 3rd Line Support
7 13 (7.78%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Junior
8 12 (7.19%) Network Support
8 12 (7.19%) Network Support Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Junior Network Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Web Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Lead
11 8 (4.79%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.99%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (3.59%) LDAP
2 6 (3.59%) SAML
3 3 (1.80%) REST
4 2 (1.20%) Django
4 2 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.20%) Flash
5 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.56%) Data Centre
2 22 (13.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (11.98%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.59%) PKI
5 5 (2.99%) Replication
6 4 (2.40%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.80%) SCADA
7 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.20%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.60%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.96%) Windows
2 24 (14.37%) Windows Server
3 21 (12.57%) Linux
4 6 (3.59%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.40%) CatOS
5 4 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.20%) Unix
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.15%) Load Balancing
2 39 (23.35%) Migration
3 27 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (15.57%) CI/CD
5 25 (14.97%) DevOps
6 23 (13.77%) Containerisation
7 20 (11.98%) Network Virtualisation
8 19 (11.38%) ITSM
9 18 (10.78%) High Availability
9 18 (10.78%) Knowledge Transfer
9 18 (10.78%) Service Management
9 18 (10.78%) Use Case
10 14 (8.38%) RBAC
11 13 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (7.19%) Security Architecture
12 12 (7.19%) Validation
12 12 (7.19%) Zero Trust
13 11 (6.59%) Data Loss Prevention
13 11 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.95%) Python
2 18 (10.78%) Bash
3 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.80%) SQL
5 2 (1.20%) C
5 2 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (43.71%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.35%) DV Cleared
3 33 (19.76%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (7.19%) VCAP
5 11 (6.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (5.99%) CCIE
7 9 (5.39%) CCNP
8 7 (4.19%) CISSP
8 7 (4.19%) VCDX
9 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.99%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.80%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.80%) CCSP
11 3 (1.80%) Degree
12 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.20%) CCSM
12 2 (1.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) NIST
2 4 (2.40%) GDPR
2 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 88 (52.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (32.34%) vSphere
3 34 (20.36%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.39%) Docker
6 7 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.40%) Firmware
7 4 (2.40%) NFS
7 4 (2.40%) vCloud
8 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.60%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 51 (30.54%) vCenter Server
2 50 (29.94%) Ansible
3 34 (20.36%) Terraform
4 27 (16.17%) Kubernetes
5 21 (12.57%) Argo
6 11 (6.59%) Grafana
6 11 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (4.19%) FortiGate
9 6 (3.59%) vRealize
10 4 (2.40%) SCCM
10 4 (2.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 3 (1.80%) WSUS
12 2 (1.20%) Istio
12 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.20%) vMotion
12 2 (1.20%) VxRail
13 1 (0.60%) Podman
13 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 149 (89.22%) VMware
2 62 (37.13%) Cisco
3 33 (19.76%) F5
4 32 (19.16%) SolarWinds
5 24 (14.37%) Juniper
6 20 (11.98%) Pure Storage
7 19 (11.38%) Red Hat
8 17 (10.18%) Palo Alto
9 16 (9.58%) Microsoft
10 15 (8.98%) Splunk
11 11 (6.59%) Blue Coat
11 11 (6.59%) Broadcom
11 11 (6.59%) McAfee
12 8 (4.79%) CheckPoint
12 8 (4.79%) Veeam
13 7 (4.19%) Fortinet
14 6 (3.59%) Arista
15 5 (2.99%) Computacenter
15 5 (2.99%) Dell
16 4 (2.40%) NetApp