VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in Scotland

VMware NSX
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 110 129
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 8 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 5.80% 2.83% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £411 - £475
25th Percentile £419 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile £475 - £638
90th Percentile £590 - £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £97.50 £81.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +20.00% +23.14% +4.35%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 138 212 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.03% 13.18% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 133 184
10th Percentile £209 £193 £183
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £634
90th Percentile £650 £560 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £33.50 £70.50 £55.00
25th Percentile £49.06 £71.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +44.62% -37.20% +31.94%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in Scotland

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in Scotland

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Edinburgh +2 6 £450 - 2
Glasgow +4 1 £475 - 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £675 - 1
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Catchpoint
1 3 (37.50%) Nutanix
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (37.50%) BGP
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (50.00%) NVMe
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) BCP
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) NCDA
2 2 (25.00%) VCP6
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) vMotion
3 3 (37.50%) vRealize
4 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Arista
3 3 (37.50%) Brocade
3 3 (37.50%) Commvault
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
3 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (25.00%) AppNeta