VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware NSX
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 16 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.47% 1.63% -
As % of the System Software category 7.41% 8.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
75th Percentile £557 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £513 -
% change year-on-year +0.29% - -

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 216 72 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.89% 19.57% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 50 77
10th Percentile £325 £347 £187
25th Percentile £369 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £588
90th Percentile £571 £653 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £413 £430
% change year-on-year +15.15% -4.07% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.93 - £14.63
% change year-on-year - - -76.60%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in South Yorkshire

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Sheffield -38 16 £514 -
VMware NSX
Yorkshire

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 15 (93.75%) GitHub
2 14 (87.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) OSPF
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Cloud Native
2 10 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
1 15 (93.75%) Containerisation
1 15 (93.75%) Migration
2 14 (87.50%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) High Availability
3 13 (81.25%) Load Balancing
4 11 (68.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (68.75%) RBAC
5 10 (62.50%) Data Migration
5 10 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 1 (6.25%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (6.25%) Network Design
7 1 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (6.25%) Runbook
7 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Bash
1 13 (81.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) OCP
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) CCIE
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) vSphere
2 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Argo
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
1 15 (93.75%) vCenter Server
2 13 (81.25%) Ansible
2 13 (81.25%) Terraform
3 10 (62.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (93.75%) Pure Storage
3 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
4 10 (62.50%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) ForeScout