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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 373 404
Rank change year-on-year -48 +31 +180
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 129 138 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 3.29% 3.94% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 89 93
10th Percentile £454 £400 -
25th Percentile £500 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £625
90th Percentile £634 £657 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £96.25 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £97.50 £80.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +21.25% -13.47%
75th Percentile £98.75 £82.50 £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £97.50 £80.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +21.88% +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 3,925 3,505 4,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.50% 12.01% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,618 2,270 3,287
10th Percentile £213 £205 £195
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 78 217
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.63
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -21.26% +61.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £67.25
90th Percentile £90.15 £75.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%

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 17 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 17 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 -10 49 £500 -16.67% 10
London -25 21 £575 +18.66% 5
North of England -34 21 £430 -14.05% 5
Midlands -30 14 £550 +19.89%
South West -12 13 £550 +4.76% 2
North West -23 13 - - 2
West Midlands -35 12 £550 +19.89%
Yorkshire - 8 £430 - 3
East of England -12 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 7 (5.43%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.10%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.83%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) AWS
3 18 (13.95%) OpenShift
4 10 (7.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (6.20%) GCP
5 8 (6.20%) IaaS
6 5 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.10%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.33%) GitHub
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.78%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.78%) PaaS
10 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (31.01%) DNS
2 33 (25.58%) Firewall
3 27 (20.93%) VSAN
4 26 (20.16%) Cisco ISE
5 24 (18.60%) Cisco Firepower
6 23 (17.83%) Cisco IOS
7 22 (17.05%) Junos
7 22 (17.05%) WAN
8 18 (13.95%) LAN
8 18 (13.95%) VPN
9 16 (12.40%) BGP
10 13 (10.08%) OSPF
10 13 (10.08%) Wireless
11 10 (7.75%) MPLS
11 10 (7.75%) NX-OS
12 9 (6.98%) BIG-IP
12 9 (6.98%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (6.98%) DHCP
12 9 (6.98%) VLAN
12 9 (6.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.88%) Fiddler
2 5 (3.88%) GitLab
3 3 (2.33%) Git
4 2 (1.55%) JIRA
4 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.53%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.55%) Finance
8 2 (1.55%) French Language
9 1 (0.78%) Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (27.13%) Network Engineer
2 32 (24.81%) Architect
3 22 (17.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 21 (16.28%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 21 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (16.28%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (14.73%) Consultant
5 19 (14.73%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 19 (14.73%) VMware Consultant
6 16 (12.40%) 3rd Line Support
6 16 (12.40%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 16 (12.40%) Support Engineer
7 15 (11.63%) Network Support
7 15 (11.63%) Network Support Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) VMware Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Network Architect
10 8 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.65%) Designer
11 6 (4.65%) IP Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.33%) LDAP
1 3 (2.33%) Middleware
1 3 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (2.33%) SAML
2 2 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.78%) Flash
3 1 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (29.46%) Data Centre
2 20 (15.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.30%) PKI
4 8 (6.20%) Replication
5 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.10%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.33%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.33%) SCADA
8 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.55%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.78%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.78%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.78%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.81%) Windows
2 26 (20.16%) Windows Server
3 20 (15.50%) Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.33%) VMS
6 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.55%) CatOS
7 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.78%) SUSE
8 1 (0.78%) Unix
8 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.38%) Migration
1 25 (19.38%) Network Virtualisation
2 24 (18.60%) Load Balancing
3 22 (17.05%) ITSM
4 21 (16.28%) Service Management
5 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.63%) DevOps
7 13 (10.08%) CI/CD
8 12 (9.30%) Containerisation
9 11 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (8.53%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (7.75%) Zero Trust
11 9 (6.98%) Change Management
11 9 (6.98%) Incident Response
11 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.98%) Validation
12 8 (6.20%) High Availability
13 7 (5.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.81%) Python
2 9 (6.98%) Bash
3 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.10%) SQL
5 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.68%) DV Cleared
3 27 (20.93%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (10.08%) CCIE
5 13 (10.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (8.53%) VCAP
7 10 (7.75%) AWS Certification
7 10 (7.75%) CCNP
8 8 (6.20%) JNCIE
8 8 (6.20%) VCDX
9 7 (5.43%) Degree
10 5 (3.88%) CISSP
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
11 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.33%) CCIE Security
12 3 (2.33%) CCSP
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) NIST
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
2 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (51.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (34.88%) vSphere
3 34 (26.36%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.53%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (7.75%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (6.98%) Docker
7 5 (3.88%) Firmware
8 3 (2.33%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.33%) NFS
9 2 (1.55%) KVM
10 1 (0.78%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 47 (36.43%) vCenter Server
2 40 (31.01%) Ansible
3 31 (24.03%) Terraform
4 15 (11.63%) Kubernetes
5 11 (8.53%) vRealize
6 10 (7.75%) Argo
7 8 (6.20%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (5.43%) FortiGate
9 6 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (3.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (3.10%) Grafana
11 4 (3.10%) PowerCLI
12 3 (2.33%) WSUS
13 2 (1.55%) vMotion
13 2 (1.55%) VxRail
14 1 (0.78%) Istio
14 1 (0.78%) Packer
14 1 (0.78%) Podman
14 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
14 1 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 108 (83.72%) VMware
2 58 (44.96%) Cisco
3 33 (25.58%) SolarWinds
4 30 (23.26%) Juniper
5 27 (20.93%) F5
6 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
7 14 (10.85%) Palo Alto
8 11 (8.53%) Red Hat
9 10 (7.75%) Broadcom
9 10 (7.75%) Fortinet
10 9 (6.98%) Pure Storage
10 9 (6.98%) Veeam
11 8 (6.20%) NetApp
12 6 (4.65%) Splunk
13 5 (3.88%) Blue Coat
13 5 (3.88%) CheckPoint
13 5 (3.88%) McAfee
14 4 (3.10%) Computacenter
14 4 (3.10%) Dell
14 4 (3.10%) Meraki