VMware NSX Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 270 343
Rank change year-on-year +13 +73 +60
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 82 130 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 4.53% 5.29% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 82 87
10th Percentile £463 £439 £412
25th Percentile £513 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £621 £550
90th Percentile £650 £674 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £513
% change year-on-year +2.42% +4.78% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £60.75 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £61.88 £62.00
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +6.75% +33.12%
75th Percentile £86.25 £74.63 -
90th Percentile - £76.65 £70.89
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £63.75 £64.62
% change year-on-year +29.41% -1.34% +36.03%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,809 2,459 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.14% 11.85% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,646 2,641
10th Percentile £190 £175 £180
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -3.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 194 187
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -45.00% +120.81%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £79.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +22.22% -58.14% +168.75%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +22 26 £580 +11.32% 12
South West +16 25 £550 +4.76% 10
East of England - 16 £503 - 1
North of England +32 13 £425 -17.07% 15
Yorkshire - 9 £513 - 4
North West +15 4 £425 -17.07% 11
Scotland +1 3 - - 5
Midlands +11 1 £662 +20.27% 3
West Midlands +8 1 £662 +20.27% 2
North East -2 1 £625 +20.19%
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) IIS
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.41%) AWS
2 9 (10.98%) Azure
3 8 (9.76%) PaaS
4 7 (8.54%) Nutanix
5 6 (7.32%) IaaS
6 5 (6.10%) GitHub
6 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.88%) SaaS
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.83%) VSAN
2 21 (25.61%) Firewall
3 11 (13.41%) DNS
3 11 (13.41%) WAN
4 10 (12.20%) VPN
5 8 (9.76%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (9.76%) Network Security
6 6 (7.32%) BGP
6 6 (7.32%) iSCSI
6 6 (7.32%) LAN
6 6 (7.32%) NGFW
6 6 (7.32%) OSPF
6 6 (7.32%) SAN
6 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (6.10%) MPLS
7 5 (6.10%) SD-WAN
7 5 (6.10%) VLAN
8 4 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (4.88%) NAS
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Git
2 4 (4.88%) GitLab
2 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.05%) Public Sector
3 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Billing
4 3 (3.66%) Finance
5 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Electronics
5 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.44%) Marketing
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (24.39%) Architect
2 17 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (18.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) VMware Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Senior
5 9 (10.98%) Technical Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Consultant
6 7 (8.54%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Technical Architect
7 5 (6.10%) VMware Architect
7 5 (6.10%) VMware Specialist
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Cisco Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 2 (2.44%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) Flash
2 4 (4.88%) Middleware
3 1 (1.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.39%) Clustering
2 16 (19.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (15.85%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.98%) PKI
5 7 (8.54%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (7.32%) Public Cloud
6 6 (7.32%) Replication
7 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.22%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Windows
2 14 (17.07%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.63%) Linux
4 4 (4.88%) VMS
5 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.44%) CentOS
6 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Unix
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (29.27%) Agile
3 22 (26.83%) Network Virtualisation
4 20 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.73%) Waterfall
6 16 (19.51%) Service Management
7 15 (18.29%) ITIL
8 14 (17.07%) Computer Science
8 14 (17.07%) High Availability
8 14 (17.07%) NsoIT
8 14 (17.07%) Power Management
8 14 (17.07%) System Testing
8 14 (17.07%) Validation
9 13 (15.85%) Migration
10 12 (14.63%) Critical Thinking
11 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (12.20%) DevSecOps
12 10 (12.20%) TOGAF
13 8 (9.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.41%) Python
3 8 (9.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (68.29%) Security Cleared
2 42 (51.22%) SC Cleared
3 27 (32.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 23 (28.05%) DV Cleared
5 16 (19.51%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (17.07%) CCNA
6 14 (17.07%) Degree
7 12 (14.63%) Master's Degree
8 9 (10.98%) MCSE
8 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (7.32%) VCAP
10 5 (6.10%) CCNP
11 3 (3.66%) DBS Check
12 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.44%) MCSA
13 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 1 (1.22%) CCIE
13 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (9.76%) NCSC
1 8 (9.76%) NIST
2 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (75.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (39.02%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (21.95%) Active Directory
4 17 (20.73%) vSphere
5 4 (4.88%) Docker
5 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.88%) NFS
5 4 (4.88%) vCloud
6 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (37.80%) vCenter Server
2 18 (21.95%) vRealize
3 14 (17.07%) Ansible
4 12 (14.63%) VxRail
5 8 (9.76%) Terraform
6 7 (8.54%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 6 (7.32%) FortiGate
7 6 (7.32%) PowerCLI
8 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
9 4 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (4.88%) Podman
10 2 (2.44%) Nagios
10 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.44%) SCOM
10 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.22%) Nessus
11 1 (1.22%) Puppet
11 1 (1.22%) SCCM
11 1 (1.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (100.00%) VMware
2 31 (37.80%) Cisco
3 13 (15.85%) Atlassian
4 11 (13.41%) Palo Alto
5 10 (12.20%) Dell
6 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.10%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.88%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (4.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.66%) Infoblox
9 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.66%) Veeam
10 2 (2.44%) F5
10 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.44%) HP
10 2 (2.44%) IBM
10 2 (2.44%) LogRhythm
10 2 (2.44%) SAP
11 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.22%) Juniper