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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 378 407
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 +167
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 137 116 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 3.47% 3.58% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 72 77
10th Percentile £463 £413 £425
25th Percentile £500 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £630 £625
90th Percentile £670 £674 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
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% -7.02%
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% -7.02%

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 3,943 3,242 4,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 11.85% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,106 3,088
10th Percentile £213 £204 £190
25th Percentile £400 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 201
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year +65.48% -38.12% +68.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £90.60 £79.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +69.34% -43.18% +81.82%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -9 50 £500 -16.67% 13
London -28 23 £525 +5.00% 4
North of England -35 22 £430 -14.05% 4
North West -19 14 - - 1
South West -8 13 £550 +4.76%
Midlands -41 13 £550 +19.89% 1
West Midlands -39 11 £575 +25.34% 1
Yorkshire - 8 £430 - 3
East of England -18 5 - -
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 8 (5.84%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.92%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (2.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.73%) JBoss
6 1 (0.73%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.06%) AWS
2 21 (15.33%) Azure
3 19 (13.87%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.84%) GCP
4 8 (5.84%) IaaS
5 7 (5.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (3.65%) Nutanix
7 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) GitHub
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.46%) PaaS
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.73%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (29.93%) DNS
2 36 (26.28%) Firewall
3 26 (18.98%) Cisco ISE
3 26 (18.98%) VSAN
4 24 (17.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 23 (16.79%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (16.06%) Junos
7 20 (14.60%) WAN
8 17 (12.41%) LAN
9 16 (11.68%) BGP
9 16 (11.68%) VPN
10 13 (9.49%) OSPF
10 13 (9.49%) Wireless
11 12 (8.76%) BIG-IP
12 10 (7.30%) HTTP
12 10 (7.30%) MPLS
12 10 (7.30%) Network Security
12 10 (7.30%) NX-OS
12 10 (7.30%) SSL
12 10 (7.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.11%) Fiddler
3 6 (4.38%) GitLab
4 3 (2.19%) Git
5 2 (1.46%) JIRA
5 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.49%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Finance
7 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Banking
9 1 (0.73%) French Language
9 1 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (27.01%) Network Engineer
2 36 (26.28%) Architect
3 22 (16.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (13.87%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) Consultant
6 17 (12.41%) VMware Consultant
7 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) Support Engineer
8 15 (10.95%) Network Support
8 15 (10.95%) Network Support Engineer
9 13 (9.49%) VMware Architect
10 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Network Architect
12 7 (5.11%) Junior
12 7 (5.11%) Junior Network Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.19%) LDAP
1 3 (2.19%) Middleware
1 3 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (2.19%) REST
1 3 (2.19%) SAML
2 2 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.73%) Flash
3 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.55%) Data Centre
2 18 (13.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.03%) PKI
5 6 (4.38%) Replication
6 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) SCADA
8 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.46%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.73%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.73%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.36%) Windows
2 26 (18.98%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.60%) Linux
4 6 (4.38%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.19%) VMS
7 2 (1.46%) CatOS
7 2 (1.46%) Unix
8 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.73%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (19.71%) Load Balancing
2 25 (18.25%) Migration
3 24 (17.52%) Network Virtualisation
4 22 (16.06%) ITSM
5 21 (15.33%) Service Management
6 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (10.95%) CI/CD
7 15 (10.95%) DevOps
8 14 (10.22%) Knowledge Transfer
9 12 (8.76%) Containerisation
10 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (6.57%) Incident Response
12 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (6.57%) Zero Trust
13 8 (5.84%) High Availability
13 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (5.84%) Roadmaps
13 8 (5.84%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) Python
2 9 (6.57%) Bash
2 9 (6.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.19%) SQL
4 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (48.18%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.74%) DV Cleared
3 26 (18.98%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.95%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (9.49%) CCIE
5 13 (9.49%) VCAP
5 13 (9.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (6.57%) AWS Certification
6 9 (6.57%) CCNP
7 8 (5.84%) JNCIE
7 8 (5.84%) VCDX
8 7 (5.11%) CISSP
9 6 (4.38%) Degree
10 3 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.19%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.19%) CCSP
10 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.46%) CCSM
11 2 (1.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) NIST
2 4 (2.92%) GDPR
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.73%) NCSC
3 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 71 (51.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (32.85%) vSphere
3 33 (24.09%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.76%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (6.57%) Docker
7 5 (3.65%) Firmware
8 4 (2.92%) NFS
9 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.46%) KVM
10 1 (0.73%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 46 (33.58%) vCenter Server
2 42 (30.66%) Ansible
3 30 (21.90%) Terraform
4 16 (11.68%) Kubernetes
5 11 (8.03%) vRealize
6 10 (7.30%) Argo
7 8 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (5.11%) FortiGate
9 6 (4.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (3.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.92%) Grafana
12 3 (2.19%) SCCM
12 3 (2.19%) WSUS
13 2 (1.46%) Istio
13 2 (1.46%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.46%) vMotion
13 2 (1.46%) VxRail
14 1 (0.73%) Packer
14 1 (0.73%) Podman
14 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 116 (84.67%) VMware
2 59 (43.07%) Cisco
3 34 (24.82%) SolarWinds
4 30 (21.90%) F5
4 30 (21.90%) Juniper
5 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
6 14 (10.22%) Palo Alto
7 12 (8.76%) Red Hat
8 10 (7.30%) Broadcom
8 10 (7.30%) Fortinet
9 9 (6.57%) Pure Storage
10 8 (5.84%) Veeam
11 7 (5.11%) Blue Coat
11 7 (5.11%) McAfee
12 6 (4.38%) NetApp
12 6 (4.38%) Splunk
13 5 (3.65%) CheckPoint
14 4 (2.92%) Computacenter
14 4 (2.92%) Dell
14 4 (2.92%) Meraki