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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 341 416
Rank change year-on-year -93 +75 +193
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 97 179 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.63% 4.84% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 124 107
10th Percentile £455 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +8.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £600
90th Percentile £623 £668 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.15% -1.14% +4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £62.67
25th Percentile - £77.50 -
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year - +21.25% -13.47%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £73.68
90th Percentile - - £76.25
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 3,687 3,702 5,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.65% 11.87% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,390 2,391 3,667
10th Percentile £206 £220 £198
25th Percentile £378 £381 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £622 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £722
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 78 243
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.31 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £52.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% +20.57% +86.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £66.62
90th Percentile £88.68 £75.75 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -45.00% +8.98% +95.23%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 -23 39 £500 -9.50% 9
North of England -23 18 £413 -15.38% 2
London -6 16 £600 +20.00% 5
South West -23 13 £550 +2.33% 1
North West -13 9 - - 2
Yorkshire - 9 £413 -
Midlands -46 7 £550 -11.29% 3
West Midlands -45 6 £550 -11.29% 3
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 (6.19%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.12%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.06%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) AWS
2 23 (23.71%) Azure
3 15 (15.46%) OpenShift
4 9 (9.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (9.28%) GCP
4 9 (9.28%) IaaS
5 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.09%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.06%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.06%) SaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.03%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (32.99%) DNS
2 23 (23.71%) VSAN
3 20 (20.62%) Cisco ISE
4 19 (19.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 19 (19.59%) WAN
5 18 (18.56%) Cisco IOS
6 17 (17.53%) Firewall
6 17 (17.53%) Junos
7 16 (16.49%) BGP
8 15 (15.46%) LAN
9 14 (14.43%) OSPF
10 12 (12.37%) VPN
11 10 (10.31%) MPLS
11 10 (10.31%) VLAN
11 10 (10.31%) VXLAN
11 10 (10.31%) Wireless
12 9 (9.28%) DHCP
13 8 (8.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (6.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.19%) GitLab
3 5 (5.15%) Git
4 3 (3.09%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Documentation Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Finance
6 2 (2.06%) French Language
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Network Engineer
2 23 (23.71%) Architect
3 17 (17.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) 3rd Line Support
4 16 (16.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) Support Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) Consultant
5 15 (15.46%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) Network Support
5 15 (15.46%) Network Support Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) VMware Consultant
6 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) VMware Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Designer
7 6 (6.19%) IP Designer
7 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) Middleware
2 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.74%) Data Centre
2 15 (15.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.22%) PKI
4 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.15%) Replication
6 4 (4.12%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.03%) Clustering
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.03%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (1.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.96%) Windows
2 25 (25.77%) Windows Server
3 20 (20.62%) Linux
4 6 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.09%) VMS
6 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.03%) SUSE
8 1 (1.03%) Unix
8 1 (1.03%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Service Management
2 19 (19.59%) Migration
3 17 (17.53%) ITSM
4 16 (16.49%) Load Balancing
5 14 (14.43%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (11.34%) DevOps
8 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.28%) Containerisation
8 9 (9.28%) Incident Response
8 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (9.28%) Validation
9 8 (8.25%) Agile
9 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.25%) Zero Trust
10 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (7.22%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (6.19%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.99%) Python
2 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.22%) Bash
4 4 (4.12%) SQL
5 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (54.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.93%) DV Cleared
3 26 (26.80%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.40%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (13.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (11.34%) VCAP
6 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
6 10 (10.31%) CCIE
7 8 (8.25%) JNCIE
8 7 (7.22%) CCNP
8 7 (7.22%) Degree
9 6 (6.19%) VCDX
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
10 4 (4.12%) CISSP
10 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (3.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (3.09%) CCIE Security
11 3 (3.09%) CCSP
11 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.06%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) NIST
2 4 (4.12%) GDPR
2 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.12%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (52.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (41.24%) vSphere
3 30 (30.93%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.31%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (9.28%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (8.25%) Docker
7 5 (5.15%) Firmware
8 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.06%) KVM
9 2 (2.06%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (43.30%) vCenter Server
2 37 (38.14%) Ansible
3 31 (31.96%) Terraform
4 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.25%) Argo
5 8 (8.25%) PowerCLI
5 8 (8.25%) vRealize
6 6 (6.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (4.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (3.09%) vMotion
8 3 (3.09%) WSUS
9 2 (2.06%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.06%) Grafana
9 2 (2.06%) HAProxy
9 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.03%) Packer
10 1 (1.03%) Podman
10 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (83.51%) VMware
2 43 (44.33%) Cisco
3 27 (27.84%) Juniper
3 27 (27.84%) SolarWinds
4 24 (24.74%) F5
5 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
6 10 (10.31%) Fortinet
7 9 (9.28%) Veeam
8 8 (8.25%) Palo Alto
8 8 (8.25%) Red Hat
9 7 (7.22%) NetApp
9 7 (7.22%) Pure Storage
10 4 (4.12%) Meraki
10 4 (4.12%) Splunk
11 3 (3.09%) Computacenter
12 2 (2.06%) Blue Coat
12 2 (2.06%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.06%) Dell
12 2 (2.06%) Forcepoint
12 2 (2.06%) McAfee