VMware NSX Contracts in the South West

VMware NSX
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 86 105 147
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 25 52 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 1.63% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 8.87% 14.53% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 43 15
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile £513 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +6.88%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £652
90th Percentile £688 £725 £740
England median daily rate £550 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £65.18 -
25th Percentile - £67.31 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year - +15.06% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 -
90th Percentile - £77.33 £70.89
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the South West

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in the South West

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the South West

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware NSX in the South West

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +23 20 £550 +4.76% 10
Dorset - 4 £550 -
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (48.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) VSAN
2 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) VMS
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (56.00%) High Availability
2 14 (56.00%) NsoIT
2 14 (56.00%) Power Management
2 14 (56.00%) Service Management
2 14 (56.00%) System Testing
2 14 (56.00%) Validation
3 12 (48.00%) Agile
3 12 (48.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (48.00%) Critical Thinking
3 12 (48.00%) Waterfall
4 11 (44.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (12.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (8.00%) ITIL
6 2 (8.00%) Server Management
6 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (84.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (56.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (48.00%) CCNA
4 12 (48.00%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (48.00%) Degree
4 12 (48.00%) Master's Degree
5 10 (40.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) CCNP
6 2 (8.00%) MCSA
6 2 (8.00%) MCSE
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) vCloud
3 4 (16.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) VxRail
4 3 (12.00%) vRealize
5 2 (8.00%) SCOM
6 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 1 (4.00%) Nessus
6 1 (4.00%) SCCM
6 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (52.00%) Cisco
3 12 (48.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (12.00%) Infoblox
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) F5