VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in the North of England

VMware NSX
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 187 153 165
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 +63
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 21 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 2.96% 1.66% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 18
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £406 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £498 £669 £475
90th Percentile £589 £718 £479
England median daily rate £531 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -1.21% +4.88% -6.82%

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 709 482 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.09% 13.41% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 295 506
10th Percentile £185 £176 £185
25th Percentile £330 £278 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.44 £16.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% +16.26% -15.56%
75th Percentile £45.84 £25.39 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £32.15 £61.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.61% -21.26% +61.30%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware NSX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the North of England

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware NSX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -23 13 - - 2
Yorkshire - 8 £430 - 3
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) BIG-IP
2 6 (28.57%) Network Security
2 6 (28.57%) VSAN
3 5 (23.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (23.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (23.81%) Firewall
3 5 (23.81%) HTTP
3 5 (23.81%) SSL
3 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (23.81%) Wireshark
4 4 (19.05%) DMZ
5 3 (14.29%) NAS
5 3 (14.29%) SAN
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (4.76%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (4.76%) OSPF
7 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Fiddler
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Junior
1 5 (23.81%) Junior Network Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Web Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Server Migration Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Server Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.76%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) VMS
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Load Balancing
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (23.81%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Kanban
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Server Migrations
6 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
7 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.52%) Edge Computing
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) VCAP
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.76%) CCIE
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) vSphere
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) vCenter Server
3 3 (14.29%) vRealize
4 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) PowerCLI
4 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (23.81%) Blue Coat
3 5 (23.81%) McAfee
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) Computacenter
5 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) ForeScout
6 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) NetApp
6 1 (4.76%) NetScout
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
6 1 (4.76%) SevOne
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk