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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 374 374
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +194
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 195 101 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.41% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 4.62% 3.15% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 67 99
10th Percentile £425 £463 £429
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £622 £625
90th Percentile £688 £653 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £46.00 £77.63 £64.87
25th Percentile £47.00 £77.81 £65.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% +16.07% +10.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £85.31 £76.25
90th Percentile £74.88 £85.88 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -37.85% +20.37% +6.75%

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 4,219 3,206 4,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 13.10% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 2,195 2,855
10th Percentile £213 £209 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 81 207
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.25 £15.71
Median hourly rate £42.69 £29.00 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +47.19% +30.04% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £70.90
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year +46.34% +23.00% -38.29%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -31 47 £540 -10.00% 17
London -24 44 £550 -8.33% 10
North of England -38 40 £511 +13.44% 9
South West -23 23 £550 - 5
North West -15 22 £433 -8.95% 5
Midlands -48 20 £550 -16.86%
Yorkshire -41 18 £522 +30.38% 3
West Midlands -42 17 £525 -20.63%
East of England -31 5 - -
East Midlands - 3 £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 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.03%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.87%) OpenShift
2 25 (12.82%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) AWS
3 20 (10.26%) GitHub
4 8 (4.10%) GCP
4 8 (4.10%) IaaS
5 7 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.08%) Nutanix
7 5 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (2.05%) PaaS
8 4 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.54%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.03%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.03%) SaaS
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 60 (30.77%) DNS
2 55 (28.21%) Firewall
3 46 (23.59%) VSAN
4 25 (12.82%) WAN
5 24 (12.31%) VPN
6 22 (11.28%) BIG-IP
7 20 (10.26%) Wireshark
8 19 (9.74%) LAN
8 19 (9.74%) Network Security
9 18 (9.23%) HTTP
9 18 (9.23%) SSL
10 17 (8.72%) Cisco ISE
11 14 (7.18%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (6.67%) Junos
12 13 (6.67%) Wireless
13 12 (6.15%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (6.15%) NX-OS
14 11 (5.64%) BGP
14 11 (5.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.64%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.54%) GitLab
4 2 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.18%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.13%) Finance
6 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Retail
8 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (32.31%) Architect
2 42 (21.54%) Network Engineer
3 26 (13.33%) Consultant
4 21 (10.77%) VMware Consultant
5 19 (9.74%) VMware Architect
6 15 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
7 13 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.67%) Lead
8 12 (6.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Junior
8 12 (6.15%) Senior
9 11 (5.64%) Junior Network Engineer
9 11 (5.64%) Web Engineer
10 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.59%) LDAP
2 7 (3.59%) SAML
3 4 (2.05%) Flash
4 3 (1.54%) REST
5 2 (1.03%) Django
5 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.44%) Data Centre
2 29 (14.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.67%) PKI
5 6 (3.08%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.08%) Replication
6 4 (2.05%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.54%) SCADA
7 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.03%) Clustering
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.51%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.38%) Windows
2 26 (13.33%) Linux
3 24 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.05%) CatOS
6 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.03%) Unix
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.51%) VMS
9 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.18%) Load Balancing
2 50 (25.64%) Migration
3 36 (18.46%) CI/CD
4 33 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (15.90%) Containerisation
6 29 (14.87%) DevOps
6 29 (14.87%) High Availability
7 21 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (10.77%) Network Virtualisation
8 20 (10.26%) RBAC
9 17 (8.72%) Knowledge Transfer
9 17 (8.72%) Use Case
10 16 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (7.18%) Zero Trust
13 13 (6.67%) Data Migration
13 13 (6.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.08%) Python
2 24 (12.31%) Bash
3 10 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.03%) C
4 2 (1.03%) SQL
5 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (44.10%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 49 (25.13%) DV Cleared
4 17 (8.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (7.69%) VCAP
6 9 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.10%) CCNP
8 7 (3.59%) CISSP
9 6 (3.08%) CCIE
10 5 (2.56%) OCP
10 5 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.05%) Degree
11 4 (2.05%) VCDX
12 3 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.54%) CCIE Security
12 3 (1.54%) CCSP
13 2 (1.03%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.62%) NIST
2 5 (2.56%) NCSC
3 4 (2.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.05%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 113 (57.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 73 (37.44%) vSphere
3 30 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 28 (14.36%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.13%) Docker
6 8 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.05%) Firmware
7 4 (2.05%) vCloud
8 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.03%) NFS
9 1 (0.51%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 60 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 55 (28.21%) Ansible
3 37 (18.97%) Terraform
4 32 (16.41%) Kubernetes
5 27 (13.85%) Argo
6 16 (8.21%) Grafana
7 13 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (5.64%) vRealize
9 9 (4.62%) NetBackup
10 7 (3.59%) FortiGate
11 6 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (2.56%) SCCM
12 5 (2.56%) WSUS
13 4 (2.05%) PowerCLI
14 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.54%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (1.54%) VxRail
15 2 (1.03%) Istio
15 2 (1.03%) McAfee ePO
15 2 (1.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 183 (93.85%) VMware
2 51 (26.15%) Cisco
3 33 (16.92%) F5
4 26 (13.33%) Pure Storage
5 24 (12.31%) Red Hat
5 24 (12.31%) SolarWinds
6 22 (11.28%) Palo Alto
7 20 (10.26%) Microsoft
8 19 (9.74%) Splunk
9 16 (8.21%) Broadcom
10 15 (7.69%) Juniper
11 13 (6.67%) McAfee
12 11 (5.64%) Blue Coat
13 10 (5.13%) CheckPoint
14 8 (4.10%) Veritas
15 6 (3.08%) Dell
15 6 (3.08%) NVIDIA
16 5 (2.56%) Computacenter
16 5 (2.56%) Zerto
17 4 (2.05%) Meraki