VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware NSX
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 118 179
Rank change year-on-year -14 +61 +59
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 30 63 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 1.37% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 6.36% 9.26% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 29
10th Percentile - £493 £446
25th Percentile £500 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £674 £690
England median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -9.09%

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 472 680 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.52% 14.76% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 452 547
10th Percentile £190 £243 £181
25th Percentile £263 £363 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £647 £672 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 33 61
10th Percentile £37.47 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £26.25 £24.34
Median hourly rate £81.00 £54.88 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +47.61% +0.58% +43.07%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.30 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £47.86
% change year-on-year +50.00% -47.77% +117.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware NSX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware NSX

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the South East

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware NSX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware NSX

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 19 September 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
Hampshire -25 17 £500 -17.18% 11
Berkshire +22 11 £580 -
Thames Valley +10 11 £580 +13.46%
West Sussex -1 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
1 6 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (30.00%) Junos
3 8 (26.67%) VSAN
4 7 (23.33%) BGP
4 7 (23.33%) LAN
4 7 (23.33%) WAN
5 6 (20.00%) MPLS
5 6 (20.00%) OSPF
5 6 (20.00%) SNMP
5 6 (20.00%) TACACS
5 6 (20.00%) Wireless
6 3 (10.00%) Firewall
6 3 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
General
1 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Network Support
3 8 (26.67%) Network Support Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Support Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Architect
5 6 (20.00%) Designer
5 6 (20.00%) IP Designer
5 6 (20.00%) VMware Architect
6 4 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (23.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
1 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 9 (30.00%) ITSM
2 9 (30.00%) Service Management
3 6 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (20.00%) Validation
4 3 (10.00%) Agile
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Coaching
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 2 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.33%) Network Design
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (20.00%) CCIE
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.00%) JNCIE
4 5 (16.67%) VCAP
4 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (10.00%) VCDX
6 2 (6.67%) MCSE
6 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (36.67%) vSphere
3 7 (23.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.67%) NFS
5 1 (3.33%) Firmware
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) vCenter Server
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (13.33%) vRealize
4 3 (10.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) VMware
2 16 (53.33%) Cisco
3 15 (50.00%) Juniper
4 9 (30.00%) SolarWinds
5 6 (20.00%) F5
5 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) Veeam
7 2 (6.67%) NetApp
7 2 (6.67%) Splunk