VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in Somerset

VMware NSX
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.74% - -
As % of the System Software category 21.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £249 - -
25th Percentile £487 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - -
75th Percentile £679 - -
90th Percentile £694 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +6.82% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £93.28 - -
25th Percentile £94.40 - -
Median hourly rate £96.27 - -
75th Percentile £98.13 - -
90th Percentile £99.25 - -
South West median hourly rate £51.00 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +16.19%

All System Software Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 19 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 7.94% 11.11% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 4
10th Percentile £207 £173 £153
25th Percentile £406 £225 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £198
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +39.24% -56.11%
75th Percentile £575 £442 £271
90th Percentile £667 £649 £393
South West median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £45.96 - -
25th Percentile £75.90 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.27 £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.10% +62.50% -
75th Percentile £100.00 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year -21.54% -3.35% +12.08%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in Somerset

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in Somerset over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in Somerset

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Yeovil - 6 £654 - 7
VMware NSX
South West

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) VSAN
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (85.71%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) SIEM
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (42.86%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) ITIL
6 2 (28.57%) Network Design
6 2 (28.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) VCAP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) vSphere
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) Thales