VMware NSX Contracts

VMware NSX
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware NSX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware NSX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 541 610
Rank change year-on-year +135 +69 -124
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 195 179 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 4.19% 2.27% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 127 150
10th Percentile £438 £412 £411
25th Percentile £463 £455 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -5.88% +21.00%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £630
90th Percentile £668 £675 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £53.00 £62.00 £42.04
25th Percentile £57.50 £62.92 £43.31
Median hourly rate £63.75 £64.62 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% +36.03% +17.25%
75th Percentile £72.94 £71.69 £59.44
90th Percentile £75.98 £76.80 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.23 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.75% +33.12% +17.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware NSX is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +169 161 £527 +5.40% 24
UK excluding London +92 130 £525 +5.00% 21
Work from Home +116 59 £550 +4.76% 9
South West +53 52 £525 -8.70% 1
South East +51 50 £521 +14.51% 6
London +101 40 £535 -2.73% 7
Scotland +23 15 £438 -11.29% 2
Midlands +26 9 £550 +20.76% 7
West Midlands +35 8 £550 +10.00% 7
North of England +24 4 £513 +20.59% 3
North West +9 3 £513 +20.59% 1
North East - 1 £520 -

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (8.21%) Confluence
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.05%) IBM Domino
3 4 (2.05%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.72%) AWS
1 17 (8.72%) Azure
2 9 (4.62%) OpenShift
3 8 (4.10%) GitHub
3 8 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.10%) Nutanix
4 5 (2.56%) GCP
5 3 (1.54%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.54%) Cohesity
5 3 (1.54%) IaaS
6 2 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.03%) Rubrik
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (32.82%) VSAN
2 58 (29.74%) Firewall
3 24 (12.31%) DNS
4 19 (9.74%) WAN
5 17 (8.72%) SAN
6 16 (8.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 16 (8.21%) TCP/IP
7 15 (7.69%) DHCP
7 15 (7.69%) LAN
8 14 (7.18%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (6.67%) Network Security
10 11 (5.64%) SNA
11 10 (5.13%) VPN
12 8 (4.10%) BGP
13 7 (3.59%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (3.59%) MPLS
13 7 (3.59%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (3.08%) FTP
14 6 (3.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.03%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (10.77%) JIRA
2 14 (7.18%) Git
3 11 (5.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.62%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.56%) GitLab
6 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
General
1 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.64%) Finance
5 8 (4.10%) Banking
6 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Billing
7 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Legal
7 6 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Electronics
8 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.03%) Marketing
8 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (16.92%) Consultant
3 32 (16.41%) Network Engineer
3 32 (16.41%) VMware Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) VMware Consultant
5 19 (9.74%) Senior
6 15 (7.69%) Lead
7 13 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Network Consultant
8 12 (6.15%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Architect
10 9 (4.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Senior Consultant
11 7 (3.59%) Senior Network Consultant
11 7 (3.59%) VMware Expert
12 6 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.67%) YAML
2 7 (3.59%) REST
3 6 (3.08%) Flash
3 6 (3.08%) JSON
4 4 (2.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.54%) EDI
5 3 (1.54%) ModSecurity
5 3 (1.54%) Node.js
5 3 (1.54%) RESTful
5 3 (1.54%) SAML
5 3 (1.54%) SOAP
5 3 (1.54%) XML
6 2 (1.03%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.03%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.56%) Data Centre
2 22 (11.28%) PKI
3 11 (5.64%) Clustering
4 9 (4.62%) Replication
5 6 (3.08%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.54%) CCTV
7 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.54%) SCADA
7 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.51%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (27.69%) Windows
2 53 (27.18%) Linux
3 42 (21.54%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.10%) Unix
5 8 (4.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.05%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.03%) VMS
9 2 (1.03%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.51%) Android
10 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (15.90%) Agile
2 31 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (15.38%) Migration
4 27 (13.85%) CI/CD
5 24 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (9.74%) DevOps
6 19 (9.74%) ITIL
7 18 (9.23%) Network Virtualisation
8 17 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (8.21%) Network Architecture
10 15 (7.69%) Time Management
11 14 (7.18%) Computer Science
11 14 (7.18%) Service Management
12 13 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
13 12 (6.15%) Converged Infrastructure
13 12 (6.15%) ITSM
14 11 (5.64%) High Availability
14 11 (5.64%) Network Design
14 11 (5.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.95%) Python
2 32 (16.41%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.64%) Bash
4 8 (4.10%) C#
4 8 (4.10%) Java
5 6 (3.08%) C
5 6 (3.08%) SQL
6 5 (2.56%) Ruby
7 4 (2.05%) Go
8 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 110 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 63 (32.31%) DV Cleared
3 59 (30.26%) SC Cleared
4 29 (14.87%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (13.85%) Degree
6 21 (10.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (9.23%) CCNP
8 11 (5.64%) CCIE
9 10 (5.13%) CCNA
10 8 (4.10%) Master's Degree
10 8 (4.10%) VCAP
11 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.03%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.51%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 1 (0.51%) RHCE
15 1 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.62%) PMO
2 7 (3.59%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 107 (54.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (31.28%) VMware ESXi
3 58 (29.74%) vSphere
4 25 (12.82%) Active Directory
5 17 (8.72%) Hyper-V
6 14 (7.18%) vCloud
7 7 (3.59%) Docker
8 4 (2.05%) KVM
9 3 (1.54%) NFS
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.03%) Ceph
10 2 (1.03%) Firmware
10 2 (1.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (1.03%) XenApp
11 1 (0.51%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.51%) UAG
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.51%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 56 (28.72%) vCenter Server
2 40 (20.51%) Ansible
3 31 (15.90%) vRealize
4 27 (13.85%) Terraform
5 21 (10.77%) VxRail
6 20 (10.26%) Kubernetes
7 11 (5.64%) SCCM
8 9 (4.62%) Puppet
9 8 (4.10%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.56%) vMotion
10 5 (2.56%) WSUS
11 4 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.05%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.54%) Autotask
12 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.54%) OPNET
12 3 (1.54%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.03%) Pacemaker
13 2 (1.03%) Rancher
13 2 (1.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 191 (97.95%) VMware
2 56 (28.72%) Cisco
3 36 (18.46%) Dell
3 36 (18.46%) Palo Alto
4 30 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 18 (9.23%) Atlassian
5 18 (9.23%) Veeam
6 11 (5.64%) CheckPoint
6 11 (5.64%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.59%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.08%) F5
8 6 (3.08%) Juniper
9 5 (2.56%) Nimble Storage
10 4 (2.05%) Aruba
10 4 (2.05%) Citrix
10 4 (2.05%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.05%) HP
10 4 (2.05%) LogRhythm
10 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow