VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 228 299
Rank change year-on-year -77 +71 +124
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 62 148 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 3.21% 6.69% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 102 90
10th Percentile £434 £428 £422
25th Percentile £500 £500 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £555 £544 £547
% change year-on-year +2.07% -0.59% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.58
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £76.04
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -24.22% -13.18%

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 1,930 2,211 3,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.67% 12.45% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,486 2,135
10th Percentile £200 £190 £173
25th Percentile £306 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £657 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 94 207
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.09 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.03 £15.57 £17.74
Median hourly rate £65.50 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.18% -31.25% +100.00%
75th Percentile £86.75 £63.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £91.50 £78.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.20 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.50% -51.60% +127.27%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX

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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX

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 15 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
South East -9 29 £525 -6.25% 14
North of England -3 19 £447 -29.88% 10
South West -12 14 £550 +2.33% 6
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
North West -12 6 £538 -15.69% 8
Scotland -6 1 £675 - 2
West Midlands -45 1 £365 -39.92%
Midlands -46 1 £365 -39.92% 2
North East - 1 £625 - 2
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 6 (9.68%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.45%) Confluence
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.23%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) AWS
2 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.45%) IaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) Route 53
5 1 (1.61%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.19%) DNS
1 15 (24.19%) VSAN
2 10 (16.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 10 (16.13%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (14.52%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (14.52%) Junos
4 8 (12.90%) LAN
4 8 (12.90%) WAN
5 7 (11.29%) BGP
5 7 (11.29%) Firewall
5 7 (11.29%) NAS
5 7 (11.29%) SAN
6 6 (9.68%) MPLS
6 6 (9.68%) OSPF
6 6 (9.68%) SNMP
6 6 (9.68%) TACACS
6 6 (9.68%) Wireless
7 4 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (4.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.29%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) GitLab
3 4 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Billing
5 2 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (1.61%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Network Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (14.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Support Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) VMware Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Network Support
4 8 (12.90%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Consultant
6 6 (9.68%) Designer
6 6 (9.68%) IP Designer
7 5 (8.06%) VMware Architect
7 5 (8.06%) VMware Specialist
8 3 (4.84%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Middleware
2 1 (1.61%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Data Centre
2 13 (20.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.29%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) PKI
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.23%) Replication
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.61%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Windows
2 19 (30.65%) Windows Server
3 14 (22.58%) Linux
4 3 (4.84%) VMS
4 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Agile
1 14 (22.58%) Migration
1 14 (22.58%) Network Virtualisation
2 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (19.35%) Service Management
4 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.13%) Validation
6 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (14.52%) ITSM
7 7 (11.29%) Kanban
7 7 (11.29%) Scrum
8 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.68%) Incident Response
9 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
11 3 (4.84%) Change Management
11 3 (4.84%) Data Protection
11 3 (4.84%) Mentoring
11 3 (4.84%) Server Migrations
11 3 (4.84%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 6 (9.68%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (62.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (46.77%) DV Cleared
3 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (14.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (11.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (11.29%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (11.29%) VCAP
6 6 (9.68%) CCIE
6 6 (9.68%) Degree
6 6 (9.68%) JNCIE
7 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.23%) MCSE
9 2 (3.23%) VCDX
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.61%) CCNA
10 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 41 (66.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (45.16%) vSphere
3 26 (41.94%) Active Directory
4 15 (24.19%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (14.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.23%) Firmware
6 2 (3.23%) NFS
7 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (53.23%) vCenter Server
2 18 (29.03%) Ansible
3 14 (22.58%) vRealize
4 13 (20.97%) Terraform
5 6 (9.68%) PowerCLI
5 6 (9.68%) VxRail
6 4 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (6.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.23%) WSUS
8 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.61%) Nessus
8 1 (1.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (85.48%) VMware
2 23 (37.10%) Cisco
3 15 (24.19%) Juniper
4 14 (22.58%) F5
5 12 (19.35%) SolarWinds
6 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
7 7 (11.29%) Veeam
8 6 (9.68%) Fortinet
9 3 (4.84%) Infoblox
10 2 (3.23%) Broadcom
10 2 (3.23%) Computacenter
10 2 (3.23%) Dell
10 2 (3.23%) NetApp
10 2 (3.23%) Splunk
11 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.61%) CyberArk