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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 430 330
Rank change year-on-year +36 -100 +150
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 234 77 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.28% 0.62%
As % of the System Software category 5.19% 2.34% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 41 160
10th Percentile £463 £413 £413
25th Percentile £513 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £648 £600 £624
90th Percentile £769 £650 £651
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £35.80 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.25 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £71.77 - £76.31
90th Percentile £98.82 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.30%

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 4,509 3,286 4,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.03% 12.01% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,157 2,808
10th Percentile £213 £223 £220
25th Percentile £400 £378 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 88 167
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.50 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £35.57 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.13% +61.69% -46.99%
75th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.45 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £22.23
% change year-on-year +75.00% +34.98% -55.55%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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% 6
London -53 44 £575 -4.17% 7
South West -23 35 £600 +9.09% 8
North of England -57 29 £514 +20.94% 2
Midlands -35 18 £494 +35.21% 1
Yorkshire -44 15 £511 +23.76%
West Midlands -47 15 £494 +35.21% 1
North West -38 13 £519 +7.79% 2
East of England -16 12 £513 -5.09% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
North East -35 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 (1.71%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.51%) AWS
2 34 (14.53%) Azure
3 20 (8.55%) GitHub
4 17 (7.26%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.14%) GCP
6 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.14%) Rubrik
7 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.43%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (28.63%) VSAN
2 65 (27.78%) DNS
3 57 (24.36%) Firewall
4 34 (14.53%) WAN
5 25 (10.68%) VPN
6 24 (10.26%) LAN
7 22 (9.40%) Network Security
8 21 (8.97%) DHCP
9 19 (8.12%) TCP/IP
10 17 (7.26%) SD-WAN
11 16 (6.84%) IPsec
12 15 (6.41%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (5.56%) BGP
13 13 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (5.13%) BIG-IP
14 12 (5.13%) OSPF
14 12 (5.13%) SSL
15 11 (4.70%) VLAN
16 9 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.42%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (8.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.28%) GitLab
3 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.85%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 49 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.68%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.56%) Finance
5 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.28%) Legal
8 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (20.94%) Architect
2 46 (19.66%) Senior
3 37 (15.81%) VMware Engineer
4 36 (15.38%) Consultant
5 31 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 31 (13.25%) Network Engineer
6 23 (9.83%) VMware Consultant
7 20 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (7.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 17 (7.26%) Senior Network Engineer
9 17 (7.26%) Support Engineer
10 15 (6.41%) Lead
10 15 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.98%) Technical Architect
12 12 (5.13%) VMware Architect
13 11 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.99%) Citrix Engineer
15 7 (2.99%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (2.14%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.71%) LDAP
3 4 (1.71%) REST
3 4 (1.71%) SAML
4 3 (1.28%) Flash
5 1 (0.43%) Jinja
5 1 (0.43%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 34 (14.53%) Data Centre
3 29 (12.39%) PKI
4 20 (8.55%) Cloud Native
5 17 (7.26%) Public Cloud
6 15 (6.41%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.71%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.28%) Replication
10 2 (0.85%) Clustering
10 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.63%) Windows
2 54 (23.08%) Linux
3 38 (16.24%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.56%) Debian
4 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (1.28%) VMS
7 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.43%) CatOS
8 1 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.79%) Migration
2 47 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (19.66%) Technical Leadership
4 41 (17.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (17.09%) CI/CD
5 40 (17.09%) High Availability
6 38 (16.24%) Network Virtualisation
7 37 (15.81%) Load Balancing
8 32 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 26 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (9.83%) DevOps
12 21 (8.97%) ITIL
13 20 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (7.26%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (6.84%) DevSecOps
16 16 (6.84%) Mentoring
16 16 (6.84%) RBAC
16 16 (6.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 36 (15.38%) Python
2 28 (11.97%) Bash
3 14 (5.98%) SQL
4 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (56.84%) Security Cleared
2 84 (35.90%) DV Cleared
3 76 (32.48%) SC Cleared
4 31 (13.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (11.11%) VCAP
6 16 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.56%) CCNP
8 7 (2.99%) Degree
9 6 (2.56%) OCP
9 6 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.71%) CCIE
10 4 (1.71%) CCNA
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.85%) MCSE
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.43%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) NCSC
1 14 (5.98%) NIST
2 5 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 145 (61.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (36.75%) vSphere
3 82 (35.04%) VMware ESXi
4 47 (20.09%) Active Directory
5 15 (6.41%) vCloud
6 12 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (4.70%) Hyper-V
8 9 (3.85%) Docker
9 3 (1.28%) UAG
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 51 (21.79%) Ansible
3 40 (17.09%) Terraform
4 39 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 21 (8.97%) vRealize
6 18 (7.69%) Argo
7 15 (6.41%) SCOM
8 13 (5.56%) Grafana
8 13 (5.56%) NetBackup
8 13 (5.56%) VxRail
9 8 (3.42%) PowerCLI
10 6 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.28%) WSUS
13 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.85%) Puppet
13 2 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 234 (100.00%) VMware
2 39 (16.67%) Cisco
3 26 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 21 (8.97%) F5
4 21 (8.97%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.69%) Pure Storage
6 16 (6.84%) SolarWinds
7 14 (5.98%) Splunk
8 13 (5.56%) Broadcom
8 13 (5.56%) Red Hat
9 12 (5.13%) Veritas
10 9 (3.85%) Citrix
10 9 (3.85%) Zerto
11 8 (3.42%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.42%) NetApp
12 5 (2.14%) Becrypt
12 5 (2.14%) NVIDIA
12 5 (2.14%) Veeam
13 4 (1.71%) McAfee
13 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow