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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 372 386
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +152
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 208 113 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 4.84% 3.57% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 69 104
10th Percentile £375 £463 £436
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.07% +3.12%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £651 £668
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £536
% change year-on-year +2.73% +2.61% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £46.00 £77.63 £65.18
25th Percentile £46.50 £77.81 £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +11.68% +15.06%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £76.31
90th Percentile £60.55 £85.88 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 £63.75
% change year-on-year -37.23% +27.45% -1.34%

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 4,295 3,161 4,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.82% 12.86% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 2,195 2,826
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 77 209
10th Percentile £16.83 £15.05 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.66 £19.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.63 £28.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.86% +35.29% -57.10%
75th Percentile £74.07 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.95 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year +91.46% +25.36% -56.31%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -32 51 £610 +1.67% 10
London -25 47 £525 -12.50% 6
North of England -37 40 £522 +12.76% 4
South West -36 24 £535 -2.73% 8
North West -20 21 £514 +11.08% 2
Yorkshire -43 18 £514 +0.29% 2
Midlands -46 16 £500 -24.41% 2
West Midlands -47 14 £420 -36.51% 2
East of England -31 11 £510 +1.49% 1
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
North East -19 1 £675 +8.00%
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 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) JBoss
3 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.50%) AWS
2 23 (11.06%) Azure
2 23 (11.06%) OpenShift
3 21 (10.10%) GitHub
4 8 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.40%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.92%) GCP
6 4 (1.92%) PaaS
7 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.96%) IaaS
8 2 (0.96%) IBM Watson
8 2 (0.96%) SaaS
9 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 57 (27.40%) Firewall
2 51 (24.52%) VSAN
3 49 (23.56%) DNS
4 26 (12.50%) WAN
5 22 (10.58%) VPN
6 21 (10.10%) BIG-IP
7 19 (9.13%) LAN
7 19 (9.13%) Wireshark
8 18 (8.65%) Network Security
9 17 (8.17%) HTTP
9 17 (8.17%) SSL
10 13 (6.25%) NX-OS
11 11 (5.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (5.29%) Wireless
12 10 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (4.33%) BGP
13 9 (4.33%) TCP/IP
14 8 (3.85%) DHCP
14 8 (3.85%) HTTPS
14 8 (3.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.37%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.33%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 59 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.10%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Finance
5 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.40%) Retail
6 3 (1.44%) Legal
7 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (30.77%) Architect
2 40 (19.23%) Network Engineer
3 26 (12.50%) Consultant
3 26 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 23 (11.06%) Senior
5 21 (10.10%) VMware Architect
6 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.69%) Lead
7 16 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
8 12 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.77%) Technical Architect
9 11 (5.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Junior
10 10 (4.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Junior Network Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Web Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.85%) LDAP
2 8 (3.85%) SAML
3 4 (1.92%) Flash
3 4 (1.92%) REST
4 2 (0.96%) Django
5 1 (0.48%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.48%) Jinja
5 1 (0.48%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.87%) Data Centre
1 33 (15.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (12.98%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.25%) PKI
4 10 (4.81%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.88%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.88%) Replication
6 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.44%) SCADA
6 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) Clustering
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.96%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.48%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.35%) Windows
2 32 (15.38%) Linux
3 24 (11.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.92%) CatOS
8 3 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.44%) VMS
8 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.96%) Debian
9 2 (0.96%) Unix
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.04%) Migration
2 47 (22.60%) Load Balancing
3 33 (15.87%) CI/CD
4 32 (15.38%) High Availability
5 31 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (12.98%) Network Virtualisation
7 26 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 26 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (12.02%) DevOps
9 24 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (9.13%) Performance Optimisation
11 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (8.65%) Use Case
12 17 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (7.69%) RBAC
14 15 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (7.21%) Knowledge Transfer
15 14 (6.73%) Zero Trust
16 13 (6.25%) Runbook
16 13 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.83%) Python
2 19 (9.13%) Bash
3 13 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.96%) C
5 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.48%) DV Cleared
3 51 (24.52%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.69%) VCAP
6 10 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.85%) CCNP
8 6 (2.88%) OCP
8 6 (2.88%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.92%) VCDX
10 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.44%) CCIE
10 3 (1.44%) CISSP
10 3 (1.44%) Degree
11 2 (0.96%) CCSM
11 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.96%) GSEC
11 2 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.33%) NIST
2 8 (3.85%) NCSC
3 4 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 127 (61.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 75 (36.06%) vSphere
3 45 (21.63%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (12.02%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.92%) Firmware
6 4 (1.92%) vCloud
7 3 (1.44%) Docker
8 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.96%) NFS
9 1 (0.48%) SRDF
9 1 (0.48%) UAG
Systems Management
1 54 (25.96%) vCenter Server
2 47 (22.60%) Ansible
3 26 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 26 (12.50%) Terraform
4 21 (10.10%) Argo
5 17 (8.17%) vRealize
6 15 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (6.73%) Grafana
8 12 (5.77%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.85%) PowerCLI
10 7 (3.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (3.37%) FortiGate
11 5 (2.40%) SCCM
12 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.44%) WSUS
13 2 (0.96%) Istio
13 2 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.96%) vMotion
13 2 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 202 (97.12%) VMware
2 45 (21.63%) Cisco
3 31 (14.90%) F5
4 22 (10.58%) Palo Alto
5 21 (10.10%) Microsoft
6 20 (9.62%) Pure Storage
7 19 (9.13%) Red Hat
8 18 (8.65%) Broadcom
9 17 (8.17%) Splunk
10 13 (6.25%) CheckPoint
10 13 (6.25%) SolarWinds
11 11 (5.29%) McAfee
11 11 (5.29%) Veritas
12 9 (4.33%) Blue Coat
13 8 (3.85%) Zerto
14 7 (3.37%) Juniper
15 6 (2.88%) Dell
16 5 (2.40%) Citrix
16 5 (2.40%) NetApp
16 5 (2.40%) NVIDIA