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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 358 413
Rank change year-on-year -72 +55 +190
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 113 151 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.93% 4.23% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 100 92
10th Percentile £463 £411 £422
25th Percentile £500 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +6.44% -8.18%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £616
90th Percentile £625 £660 £667
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £77.50 -
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year - +21.25% -13.47%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - +21.25% -13.47%

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 3,860 3,570 4,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.58% 11.77% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,550 2,287 3,419
10th Percentile £213 £212 £195
25th Percentile £400 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £618
90th Percentile £688 £723 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 79 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £31.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year +5.15% -27.43% +75.00%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -2 47 £500 -10.71% 9
North of England -38 19 £413 -17.50% 6
London -16 17 £575 +18.66% 2
South West -20 13 £550 +2.33% 1
North West -22 10 - - 4
Midlands -35 10 £575 -4.17%
West Midlands -36 9 £592 -1.42%
Yorkshire - 9 £413 - 1
East of England -12 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
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 6 (5.31%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.42%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.54%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.47%) AWS
1 22 (19.47%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) OpenShift
3 9 (7.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (7.08%) GCP
4 8 (7.08%) IaaS
5 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.65%) GitHub
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.77%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (30.97%) DNS
2 26 (23.01%) Firewall
3 25 (22.12%) Cisco ISE
4 24 (21.24%) Cisco Firepower
5 23 (20.35%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (19.47%) Junos
6 22 (19.47%) VSAN
7 17 (15.04%) WAN
8 14 (12.39%) BGP
9 13 (11.50%) LAN
10 12 (10.62%) OSPF
10 12 (10.62%) VPN
11 10 (8.85%) MPLS
11 10 (8.85%) Wireless
12 9 (7.96%) DHCP
12 9 (7.96%) NX-OS
13 8 (7.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (7.08%) VLAN
13 8 (7.08%) VXLAN
14 6 (5.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.54%) GitLab
3 3 (2.65%) Fiddler
3 3 (2.65%) Git
3 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.85%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Finance
8 2 (1.77%) French Language
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Network Engineer
2 28 (24.78%) Architect
3 22 (19.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 21 (18.58%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 21 (18.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (18.58%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (16.81%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (15.04%) Consultant
6 17 (15.04%) VMware Consultant
7 16 (14.16%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (14.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 16 (14.16%) Support Engineer
8 15 (13.27%) Network Support
8 15 (13.27%) Network Support Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) VMware Architect
10 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.31%) Designer
11 6 (5.31%) IP Designer
11 6 (5.31%) Network Architect
11 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) Middleware
1 3 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) Flash
3 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.32%) Data Centre
2 18 (15.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.73%) PKI
4 10 (8.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.42%) Replication
6 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) SCADA
8 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.77%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.43%) Windows
2 25 (22.12%) Windows Server
3 20 (17.70%) Linux
4 6 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.54%) VMS
7 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.88%) SUSE
9 1 (0.88%) Unix
9 1 (0.88%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.35%) Network Virtualisation
2 22 (19.47%) ITSM
3 21 (18.58%) Migration
3 21 (18.58%) Service Management
4 20 (17.70%) Load Balancing
5 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (12.39%) DevOps
7 12 (10.62%) CI/CD
7 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.85%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (7.96%) Incident Response
9 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (7.96%) Validation
10 8 (7.08%) Agile
10 8 (7.08%) Change Management
10 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (7.08%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.08%) Zero Trust
11 7 (6.19%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.55%) Python
2 9 (7.96%) Bash
2 9 (7.96%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.54%) SQL
4 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (55.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.97%) DV Cleared
3 27 (23.89%) SC Cleared
4 15 (13.27%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (10.62%) CCIE
5 12 (10.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (8.85%) AWS Certification
6 10 (8.85%) VCAP
7 9 (7.96%) CCNP
8 8 (7.08%) JNCIE
9 7 (6.19%) Degree
10 6 (5.31%) VCDX
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
11 4 (3.54%) CISSP
11 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.65%) CCIE Security
12 3 (2.65%) CCSP
12 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.77%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) NIST
2 4 (3.54%) GDPR
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) NCSC
3 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (52.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (37.17%) vSphere
3 30 (26.55%) Active Directory
4 11 (9.73%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (8.85%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (7.96%) Docker
7 5 (4.42%) Firmware
8 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.65%) NFS
9 2 (1.77%) KVM
Systems Management
1 49 (43.36%) vCenter Server
2 38 (33.63%) Ansible
3 33 (29.20%) Terraform
4 14 (12.39%) Kubernetes
5 10 (8.85%) Argo
5 10 (8.85%) vRealize
6 6 (5.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (5.31%) FortiGate
6 6 (5.31%) PowerCLI
7 5 (4.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (3.54%) Grafana
8 4 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.65%) WSUS
10 2 (1.77%) vMotion
11 1 (0.88%) Packer
11 1 (0.88%) Podman
11 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.88%) SCCM
11 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 92 (81.42%) VMware
2 51 (45.13%) Cisco
3 32 (28.32%) SolarWinds
4 30 (26.55%) Juniper
5 23 (20.35%) F5
6 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
7 11 (9.73%) Broadcom
8 10 (8.85%) Fortinet
8 10 (8.85%) Palo Alto
8 10 (8.85%) Red Hat
9 9 (7.96%) Pure Storage
9 9 (7.96%) Veeam
10 7 (6.19%) NetApp
11 6 (5.31%) Splunk
12 4 (3.54%) Meraki
13 3 (2.65%) Blue Coat
13 3 (2.65%) Computacenter
13 3 (2.65%) McAfee
14 2 (1.77%) Dell
14 2 (1.77%) Forcepoint