VMware NSX Contracts in the South East

VMware NSX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 155 196
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 30 50 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.00% 0.90% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 6.90% 6.40% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 22
10th Percentile £524 £426 £410
25th Percentile £550 £472 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £521 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +14.45% -8.96%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £680
England median daily rate £550 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 £72.75 £63.23
% change year-on-year +13.40% +15.06% -14.55%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the South East

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in the South East

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the South East

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware NSX in the South East

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +40 22 £581 -0.21% 2
Buckinghamshire +22 14 £628 +15.24%
Berkshire +24 8 £550 - 2
Hampshire +14 4 £600 +11.73% 5
West Sussex +10 2 - - 1
Sussex - 1 - - 1
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) PaaS
2 10 (33.33%) IaaS
3 8 (26.67%) SaaS
4 7 (23.33%) AWS
4 7 (23.33%) Azure
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) VSAN
2 8 (26.67%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) BGP
3 6 (20.00%) NGFW
3 6 (20.00%) OSPF
3 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.00%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) WAN
4 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (16.67%) MPLS
4 5 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 5 (16.67%) VLAN
5 4 (13.33%) DNS
5 4 (13.33%) iSCSI
6 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (6.67%) Network Security
7 2 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (3.33%) LAN
8 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Architect
2 13 (43.33%) Technical Architect
3 11 (36.67%) Senior
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Architect
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 6 (20.00%) VMware Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (36.67%) PKI
3 6 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Replication
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) VMS
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (46.67%) DevSecOps
2 14 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (36.67%) ITIL
4 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 10 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (33.33%) Microservices
4 10 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
5 9 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 9 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
5 9 (30.00%) Use Case
6 8 (26.67%) Migration
6 8 (26.67%) Requirements Management
7 6 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
7 6 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (46.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (36.67%) DV Cleared
4 11 (36.67%) MCSE
4 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (10.00%) VCAP
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.67%) CCNP
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.33%) CCIE
7 1 (3.33%) JNCIP
7 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (40.00%) NCSC
1 12 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (16.67%) vSphere
4 4 (13.33%) NFS
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) vRealize
2 6 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (50.00%) Cisco
2 15 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Sophos
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Veeam
5 1 (3.33%) Zscaler