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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 439 342
Rank change year-on-year +26 -97 +109
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 213 80 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.29% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 4.61% 2.35% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 40 135
10th Percentile £488 £439 £400
25th Percentile £527 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £705 £593 £628
90th Percentile £788 £650 £665
UK median daily rate £605 £553 £538
% change year-on-year +9.50% +2.79% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £32.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £98.82 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 4,622 3,401 3,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.23% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,008 2,184 2,586
10th Percentile £213 £214 £220
25th Percentile £387 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 97 99
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +50.00% -47.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £90.60 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +85.69% +36.00% -50.00%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -11 81 £610 +10.91% 13
South West -11 37 £697 +26.64% 16
London -57 34 £648 +4.02% 9
Midlands -27 20 £487 +33.42% 4
West Midlands -28 17 £487 +33.42% 1
North of England -67 16 £565 +26.40% 7
North West -43 12 £583 +8.37% 6
East of England - 12 £513 - 6
Yorkshire -47 3 £325 -24.37% 1
East Midlands - 3 £526 - 3
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 (1.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.94%) AWS
2 33 (15.49%) Azure
3 9 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (3.76%) GitHub
5 6 (2.82%) GCP
6 5 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.88%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.41%) OCI
9 2 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.94%) IaaS
9 2 (0.94%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (30.99%) VSAN
2 65 (30.52%) DNS
3 56 (26.29%) Firewall
4 27 (12.68%) WAN
5 26 (12.21%) DHCP
6 23 (10.80%) TCP/IP
7 22 (10.33%) LAN
8 20 (9.39%) VPN
9 17 (7.98%) BGP
10 16 (7.51%) Network Security
11 15 (7.04%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (7.04%) IPsec
11 15 (7.04%) SD-WAN
12 14 (6.57%) BIG-IP
12 14 (6.57%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (5.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (5.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (5.16%) OSPF
14 11 (5.16%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (5.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.76%) GitLab
2 7 (3.29%) Git
3 3 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 26 (12.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.57%) Finance
5 11 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (21.13%) Senior
2 40 (18.78%) Architect
3 34 (15.96%) VMware Engineer
4 29 (13.62%) Consultant
4 29 (13.62%) Network Engineer
5 26 (12.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (9.86%) VMware Consultant
7 20 (9.39%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Support Engineer
9 16 (7.51%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (6.57%) Lead
11 13 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (5.16%) Network Architect
12 11 (5.16%) Technical Leader
13 10 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) Technical Architect
14 9 (4.23%) VMware Architect
15 8 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.37%) Terraform
2 10 (4.69%) REST
3 7 (3.29%) YAML
4 6 (2.82%) JSON
5 5 (2.35%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.41%) LDAP
6 3 (1.41%) SAML
7 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.47%) Jinja
7 1 (0.47%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.19%) Data Centre
2 30 (14.08%) PKI
3 28 (13.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (9.39%) Public Cloud
5 15 (7.04%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.88%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.94%) Replication
11 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (36.62%) Windows
2 56 (26.29%) Linux
3 39 (18.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.82%) Debian
5 3 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) CatOS
7 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.99%) Technical Leadership
2 51 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (18.31%) Migration
4 39 (18.31%) Network Virtualisation
5 38 (17.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (13.62%) CI/CD
6 29 (13.62%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (10.33%) Change Management
9 22 (10.33%) Load Balancing
10 21 (9.86%) Agile
10 21 (9.86%) High Availability
11 20 (9.39%) ITIL
11 20 (9.39%) Mentoring
12 19 (8.92%) DevSecOps
13 18 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (8.45%) SIEM
14 17 (7.98%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.47%) PowerShell
2 33 (15.49%) Python
3 19 (8.92%) Bash
4 16 (7.51%) SQL
5 1 (0.47%) Bicep
5 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (62.44%) Security Cleared
2 87 (40.85%) DV Cleared
3 62 (29.11%) SC Cleared
4 33 (15.49%) VCAP
5 32 (15.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.63%) CCNP
8 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.23%) Degree
9 4 (1.88%) CCIE
10 3 (1.41%) CCNA
10 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.94%) MCSE
12 1 (0.47%) CCDP
12 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.47%) OCP
12 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.69%) NCSC
1 10 (4.69%) NIST
2 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (60.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (38.50%) VMware ESXi
3 72 (33.80%) vSphere
4 53 (24.88%) Active Directory
5 23 (10.80%) vCloud
6 16 (7.51%) Docker
7 12 (5.63%) Hyper-V
8 11 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.41%) UAG
9 3 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) Firmware
10 1 (0.47%) NFS
10 1 (0.47%) Samba
Systems Management
1 80 (37.56%) vCenter Server
2 44 (20.66%) Ansible
3 31 (14.55%) Kubernetes
4 23 (10.80%) SCOM
5 18 (8.45%) VxRail
6 17 (7.98%) vRealize
7 9 (4.23%) PowerCLI
8 5 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.88%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.88%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.41%) vMotion
11 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.94%) OPNET
11 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.94%) Puppet
11 2 (0.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 1 (0.47%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 213 (100.00%) VMware
2 42 (19.72%) Cisco
3 21 (9.86%) F5
3 21 (9.86%) Palo Alto
4 15 (7.04%) SolarWinds
5 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.23%) Citrix
6 9 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.76%) NetApp
8 7 (3.29%) Broadcom
8 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.82%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.35%) Becrypt
10 5 (2.35%) Veeam
11 4 (1.88%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.88%) Veritas
11 4 (1.88%) Zerto
12 3 (1.41%) Juniper
12 3 (1.41%) Oracle
12 3 (1.41%) Thales