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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 369 386
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +155
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 209 110 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 4.86% 3.52% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 68 106
10th Percentile £375 £463 £440
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.07% +5.70%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £625
90th Percentile £688 £652 £664
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £536
% change year-on-year +2.73% +2.61% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £65.18
25th Percentile £46.50 £78.75 £67.31
Median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +13.40% +15.06%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £76.31
90th Percentile £60.55 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -38.18% +29.41% -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 4,297 3,121 4,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.73% 12.75% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 2,164 2,799
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £320
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 158 76 208
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.85 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.89% +33.33% -58.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.63 £57.80
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.13 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -57.83%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -40 52 £610 +1.67% 11
London -41 48 £525 -12.50% 4
North of England -37 40 £522 +12.76% 2
South West -32 24 £535 -2.73% 4
North West -21 21 £514 +11.08% 1
Yorkshire -54 18 £514 +0.29% 1
Midlands -45 15 £420 -36.51% 1
West Midlands -46 13 £340 -48.60% 1
East of England -38 11 £510 +1.49% 1
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
North East -18 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 4 (1.91%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.96%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.96%) AWS
2 23 (11.00%) OpenShift
3 22 (10.53%) Azure
4 21 (10.05%) GitHub
5 8 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.39%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.91%) PaaS
8 3 (1.44%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.44%) GCP
9 2 (0.96%) IaaS
9 2 (0.96%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.96%) SaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 57 (27.27%) Firewall
2 53 (25.36%) VSAN
3 49 (23.44%) DNS
4 26 (12.44%) WAN
5 22 (10.53%) VPN
6 21 (10.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (9.09%) LAN
7 19 (9.09%) Network Security
7 19 (9.09%) Wireshark
8 18 (8.61%) SSL
9 17 (8.13%) HTTP
10 13 (6.22%) NX-OS
11 11 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (4.78%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (4.78%) Wireless
13 9 (4.31%) IPsec
13 9 (4.31%) TCP/IP
14 8 (3.83%) BGP
14 8 (3.83%) Ethereal
14 8 (3.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.35%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (9.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.31%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (4.78%) Finance
5 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.39%) Retail
6 3 (1.44%) Legal
7 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.48%) Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (30.62%) Architect
2 40 (19.14%) Network Engineer
3 27 (12.92%) VMware Engineer
4 26 (12.44%) Consultant
5 25 (11.96%) Senior
6 21 (10.05%) VMware Architect
7 18 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (7.66%) Lead
8 16 (7.66%) VMware Consultant
9 13 (6.22%) Technical Architect
10 12 (5.74%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Junior
12 10 (4.78%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Junior Network Engineer
13 9 (4.31%) Web Engineer
14 8 (3.83%) Senior Network Engineer
15 7 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 6 (2.87%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.83%) LDAP
2 8 (3.83%) SAML
3 4 (1.91%) Flash
3 4 (1.91%) REST
4 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.96%) Django
5 1 (0.48%) Jinja
5 1 (0.48%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (15.31%) Data Centre
3 27 (12.92%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.70%) PKI
5 10 (4.78%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Replication
7 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.44%) SCADA
7 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.96%) Clustering
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.96%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (0.48%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.48%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.27%) Linux
1 34 (16.27%) Windows
2 23 (11.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.91%) CatOS
7 3 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.44%) VMS
7 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.96%) Debian
8 2 (0.96%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.92%) Migration
2 46 (22.01%) Load Balancing
3 33 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 32 (15.31%) High Availability
5 31 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.40%) Network Virtualisation
7 27 (12.92%) Containerisation
8 26 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (11.96%) DevOps
10 24 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (8.61%) Use Case
13 17 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (7.66%) RBAC
15 15 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.18%) Knowledge Transfer
16 14 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
17 13 (6.22%) Performance Tuning
17 13 (6.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.75%) Python
2 19 (9.09%) Bash
3 13 (6.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.96%) C
5 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (39.23%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.84%) DV Cleared
3 52 (24.88%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (7.66%) VCAP
6 10 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.83%) CCNP
8 6 (2.87%) OCP
8 6 (2.87%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.91%) 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%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) NIST
2 9 (4.31%) NCSC
3 5 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (61.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (36.36%) vSphere
3 46 (22.01%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (11.96%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.91%) Firmware
6 4 (1.91%) 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 (25.84%) vCenter Server
2 46 (22.01%) Ansible
3 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.96%) Terraform
5 21 (10.05%) Argo
6 18 (8.61%) vRealize
7 15 (7.18%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (6.70%) Grafana
9 12 (5.74%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.83%) PowerCLI
11 7 (3.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (3.35%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.39%) SCCM
13 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.44%) WSUS
14 2 (0.96%) Istio
14 2 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
14 2 (0.96%) vMotion
14 2 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 2 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 204 (97.61%) VMware
2 44 (21.05%) Cisco
3 30 (14.35%) F5
4 22 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 22 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 20 (9.57%) Pure Storage
6 19 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 18 (8.61%) Broadcom
8 17 (8.13%) Splunk
9 13 (6.22%) CheckPoint
10 12 (5.74%) SolarWinds
11 11 (5.26%) McAfee
11 11 (5.26%) Veritas
12 9 (4.31%) Blue Coat
13 8 (3.83%) Zerto
14 6 (2.87%) Dell
14 6 (2.87%) Juniper
15 5 (2.39%) Citrix
15 5 (2.39%) NetApp
15 5 (2.39%) NVIDIA