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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 424 336
Rank change year-on-year +18 -88 +115
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 229 85 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.31% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 4.91% 2.54% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 43 146
10th Percentile £465 £441 £400
25th Percentile £522 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.15% +8.75%
75th Percentile £702 £590 £629
90th Percentile £779 £650 £661
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £544
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.15% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £40.90 - -
25th Percentile £47.38 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.15 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.22%

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 4,660 3,351 3,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.04% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,152 2,593
10th Percentile £213 £220 £221
25th Percentile £393 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £612
90th Percentile £680 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 96 106
10th Percentile £17.58 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £34.57 £22.88 £16.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +47.84% -48.74%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £61.84
90th Percentile £92.42 £90.75 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £24.35
% change year-on-year +87.21% +37.10% -51.30%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -5 86 £610 +10.91% 6
South West -17 44 £697 +26.64% 12
London -54 37 £613 -2.00% 11
North of England -67 21 £538 +20.25% 1
Midlands -31 18 £507 +38.80% 5
West Midlands -33 15 £487 +33.42% 1
North West -32 14 £565 +5.12% 1
East of England -25 12 £513 -6.82% 3
Yorkshire -45 6 £375 -12.74%
East Midlands - 3 £526 - 4
North East -46 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 (1.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.44%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.27%) AWS
2 33 (14.41%) Azure
3 10 (4.37%) GitHub
4 9 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.18%) GCP
6 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.75%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.31%) OCI
8 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.87%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.87%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (31.44%) VSAN
2 67 (29.26%) DNS
3 55 (24.02%) Firewall
4 27 (11.79%) WAN
5 26 (11.35%) DHCP
6 23 (10.04%) TCP/IP
7 21 (9.17%) LAN
7 21 (9.17%) VPN
8 18 (7.86%) Network Security
9 15 (6.55%) BGP
9 15 (6.55%) IPsec
10 14 (6.11%) BIG-IP
10 14 (6.11%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (6.11%) SD-WAN
11 13 (5.68%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (5.24%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (5.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (4.80%) OSPF
13 11 (4.80%) VLAN
14 10 (4.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.49%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.62%) GitLab
3 5 (2.18%) Git
4 3 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.44%) JIRA
5 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 32 (13.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.11%) Finance
5 13 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.31%) Retail
8 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Legal
8 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Advertising
9 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (21.83%) Senior
2 39 (17.03%) Architect
2 39 (17.03%) VMware Engineer
3 32 (13.97%) Consultant
4 30 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (12.23%) Network Engineer
6 26 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.61%) VMware Consultant
8 21 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.30%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Senior Network Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Support Engineer
11 17 (7.42%) Lead
12 15 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Technical Architect
14 11 (4.80%) Technical Leader
15 10 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (3.93%) Network Architect
17 8 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.21%) Terraform
2 8 (3.49%) REST
3 5 (2.18%) 802.1X
3 5 (2.18%) YAML
4 4 (1.75%) JSON
4 4 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.31%) LDAP
5 3 (1.31%) SAML
6 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.44%) Jinja
6 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.47%) Data Centre
2 32 (13.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (13.54%) PKI
4 21 (9.17%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.55%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.37%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.31%) Replication
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (34.50%) Windows
2 58 (25.33%) Linux
3 40 (17.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.62%) Debian
5 3 (1.31%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) CatOS
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.38%) Technical Leadership
2 52 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (18.78%) Migration
4 42 (18.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (17.47%) Network Virtualisation
6 32 (13.97%) CI/CD
7 31 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (12.23%) Load Balancing
9 26 (11.35%) High Availability
10 24 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (9.17%) Change Management
12 21 (9.17%) Mentoring
13 20 (8.73%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.30%) Agile
14 19 (8.30%) ITIL
14 19 (8.30%) SIEM
15 18 (7.86%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (22.27%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.85%) Python
3 23 (10.04%) Bash
4 16 (6.99%) SQL
5 1 (0.44%) Bicep
5 1 (0.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 139 (60.70%) Security Cleared
2 92 (40.17%) DV Cleared
3 67 (29.26%) SC Cleared
4 35 (15.28%) VCAP
5 34 (14.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (6.11%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.24%) CCNP
8 8 (3.49%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.06%) Degree
10 4 (1.75%) CCIE
10 4 (1.75%) OCP
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.31%) CCNA
11 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.87%) MCSE
13 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.44%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) NCSC
1 11 (4.80%) NIST
2 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 143 (62.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (41.05%) VMware ESXi
3 84 (36.68%) vSphere
4 53 (23.14%) Active Directory
5 23 (10.04%) vCloud
6 14 (6.11%) Docker
7 13 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (5.24%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.31%) UAG
9 3 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.44%) NFS
10 1 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 92 (40.17%) vCenter Server
2 50 (21.83%) Ansible
3 35 (15.28%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.04%) SCOM
5 22 (9.61%) vRealize
6 18 (7.86%) VxRail
7 12 (5.24%) NetBackup
8 11 (4.80%) PowerCLI
9 5 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.18%) Argo
9 5 (2.18%) Grafana
10 4 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.31%) vMotion
12 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.87%) OPNET
12 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.87%) Puppet
13 1 (0.44%) Nagios
13 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 229 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (17.47%) Cisco
3 22 (9.61%) F5
3 22 (9.61%) Palo Alto
4 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.55%) SolarWinds
5 12 (5.24%) Veritas
6 10 (4.37%) Broadcom
7 9 (3.93%) Citrix
7 9 (3.93%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.49%) NetApp
8 8 (3.49%) Zerto
9 7 (3.06%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.62%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.18%) Becrypt
11 5 (2.18%) Splunk
11 5 (2.18%) Veeam
12 4 (1.75%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.31%) CyberArk