VMware NSX Contracts in England

VMware NSX
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware NSX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware NSX over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 309 458
Rank change year-on-year -132 +149 +140
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 71 225 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.68% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 2.17% 5.80% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 165 114
10th Percentile £418 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -7.06%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £657 £648
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £524
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.59% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £65.18 £56.90
25th Percentile - £67.31 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% -13.18%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £70.25
90th Percentile - £77.33 £73.69
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £65.99
% change year-on-year - +2.29% -13.17%

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 3,273 3,882 5,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.84% 11.65% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,114 2,701 4,042
10th Percentile £225 £225 £200
25th Percentile £385 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £640
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 130 218
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.06 £14.44
25th Percentile £23.00 £16.00 £17.47
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.43% -33.30% +66.44%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.73 £76.44
UK median hourly rate £33.64 £24.18 £47.83
% change year-on-year +39.10% -49.45% +119.61%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in England

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 14 August 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
North of England 0 20 £430 -16.15% 12
London -15 15 £620 +27.95% 8
South West -22 15 £550 +2.33% 5
South East -33 14 £580 +5.45% 10
Yorkshire - 14 £413 - 1
East of England +14 6 £550 +57.14%
North West -8 6 £538 +4.88% 11
West Midlands -47 1 £365 -33.64%
Midlands -47 1 £365 -33.64%
North East - 1 £625 -
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.27%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) GitHub
4 5 (7.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) IaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) SaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.41%) Route 53
8 1 (1.41%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.62%) VSAN
2 19 (26.76%) Firewall
3 15 (21.13%) DNS
4 9 (12.68%) Network Security
4 9 (12.68%) WAN
5 8 (11.27%) NAS
5 8 (11.27%) SAN
6 7 (9.86%) VPN
7 6 (8.45%) LAN
7 6 (8.45%) VLAN
8 4 (5.63%) BGP
8 4 (5.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (5.63%) OSPF
8 4 (5.63%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (4.23%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (4.23%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (4.23%) DHCP
10 2 (2.82%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (2.82%) NGFW
10 2 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Git
1 9 (12.68%) GitLab
1 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Billing
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) French Language
6 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Military
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (16.90%) Consultant
2 12 (16.90%) VMware Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Architect
4 9 (12.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Network Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) VMware Consultant
6 5 (7.04%) VMware Architect
6 5 (7.04%) VMware Specialist
7 4 (5.63%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Server Migration Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Server Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) Flash
1 7 (9.86%) Middleware
2 1 (1.41%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Data Centre
2 16 (22.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (11.27%) Clustering
4 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Replication
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.41%) PKI
8 1 (1.41%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Windows
2 13 (18.31%) Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.23%) VMS
5 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.41%) SUSE
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (30.99%) Agile
3 20 (28.17%) Network Virtualisation
4 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (22.54%) Migration
6 13 (18.31%) Validation
7 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
7 11 (15.49%) High Availability
7 11 (15.49%) Service Management
7 11 (15.49%) Waterfall
7 11 (15.49%) Zero Trust
8 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
9 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (9.86%) Kanban
9 7 (9.86%) NsoIT
9 7 (9.86%) Power Management
9 7 (9.86%) Scrum
9 7 (9.86%) System Testing
10 6 (8.45%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (8.45%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) Python
2 19 (26.76%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (56.34%) Security Cleared
2 28 (39.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (32.39%) DV Cleared
4 20 (28.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (15.49%) Degree
5 11 (15.49%) VCAP
6 10 (14.08%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (8.45%) CCNA
7 6 (8.45%) Master's Degree
8 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
9 3 (4.23%) VCDX
10 2 (2.82%) CCIE
10 2 (2.82%) CCNP
10 2 (2.82%) JNCIA
10 2 (2.82%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.41%) CCDP
11 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
1 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (70.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (49.30%) vSphere
3 21 (29.58%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (26.76%) Active Directory
5 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (7.04%) Firmware
7 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (46.48%) vCenter Server
2 22 (30.99%) Ansible
3 20 (28.17%) vRealize
4 14 (19.72%) PowerCLI
4 14 (19.72%) Terraform
5 12 (16.90%) VxRail
6 4 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.41%) Istio
9 1 (1.41%) Nessus
9 1 (1.41%) Packer
9 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.41%) SCCM
9 1 (1.41%) vMotion
9 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (97.18%) VMware
2 17 (23.94%) Cisco
3 12 (16.90%) F5
4 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.27%) Dell
6 7 (9.86%) Atlassian
7 6 (8.45%) Juniper
8 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.63%) NetApp
8 4 (5.63%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.63%) Veeam
9 3 (4.23%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.82%) Broadcom
10 2 (2.82%) Computacenter
10 2 (2.82%) Google
10 2 (2.82%) LogRhythm
10 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.41%) CyberArk