VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in London

VMware NSX
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 342 400
Rank change year-on-year -13 +58 +107
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 15 43 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.98% 2.57% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 35 28
10th Percentile £549 £391 £450
25th Percentile £566 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -8.59% -0.55%
75th Percentile £641 £613 £625
90th Percentile £669 £650 £646
England median daily rate £540 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +0.47% +7.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - -13.18%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,526 1,671 2,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 10.48% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,126 1,707
10th Percentile £300 £259 £225
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £661
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.76 £24.99
25th Percentile £22.50 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -60.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £50.13 £108.10 £75.25
England median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year -34.46% +6.75% +112.91%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware NSX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in London

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware NSX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware NSX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Central London +8 2 £600 +5.77% 4
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (13.33%) nginx
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) VSAN
2 6 (40.00%) VPN
3 5 (33.33%) BGP
3 5 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 5 (33.33%) WAN
4 4 (26.67%) OSPF
4 4 (26.67%) VLAN
5 3 (20.00%) DHCP
5 3 (20.00%) DNS
5 3 (20.00%) Multicast
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (13.33%) IPsec
6 2 (13.33%) LAN
6 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.67%) DMZ
7 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Redis
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (13.33%) French Language
1 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (20.00%) Change Control
1 3 (20.00%) High Availability
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (13.33%) Benchmarking
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (13.33%) ETL
2 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
2 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) JNCIA
5 1 (6.67%) CCDP
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (6.67%) CISSP
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
5 1 (6.67%) VCDX
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) vSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Firmware
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) KVM
5 1 (6.67%) Docker
5 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) vRealize
4 2 (13.33%) HAProxy
4 2 (13.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Packer
5 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (6.67%) vMotion
5 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) NetApp
4 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (13.33%) Arista
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) F5
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA
6 1 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (6.67%) Veeam