VMware NSX Contract Job Trends

VMware NSX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 392 393
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 +147
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 254 128 194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 5.20% 3.43% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 78 123
10th Percentile £405 £463 £438
25th Percentile £498 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £550 £537
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +2.42% +4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £715 £650 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £46.00 £77.63 £53.00
25th Percentile £46.38 £77.81 £57.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% +27.45% -1.34%
75th Percentile £51.00 £85.31 £72.94
90th Percentile £65.33 £85.88 £75.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £81.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% +20.37% +6.75%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,883 3,737 4,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.55% 12.69% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 2,558 3,197
10th Percentile £213 £213 £195
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £460
% change year-on-year -2.56% +5.98% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 91 232
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.67% +26.27% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.75 £88.00 £71.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +78.57% -46.22%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 15 Contract Job 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 21 April 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
England -13 213 £563 +2.36% 38
UK excluding London -39 155 £550 - 33
Work from Home +1 74 £600 +9.09% 17
South East -33 53 £608 +1.25% 12
London -37 47 £525 -12.50% 5
North of England -35 41 £522 +12.76% 5
South West -34 24 £543 -1.36% 11
North West -30 22 £514 +11.08% 2
Midlands -48 19 £513 -22.52% 1
Yorkshire -55 18 £514 +0.29% 2
West Midlands -45 17 £500 -24.41% 1
East of England -36 11 £510 +1.49% 1
Scotland +7 9 £456 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
North East -14 1 £675 +8.00% 1

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.18%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.79%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
3 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.78%) AWS
2 29 (11.42%) Azure
3 25 (9.84%) OpenShift
4 22 (8.66%) GitHub
5 8 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.15%) Nutanix
6 7 (2.76%) GCP
7 6 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.57%) PaaS
10 3 (1.18%) Catchpoint
10 3 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.18%) IaaS
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.79%) IBM Watson
11 2 (0.79%) SaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (28.74%) Firewall
2 57 (22.44%) VSAN
3 54 (21.26%) DNS
4 29 (11.42%) WAN
5 26 (10.24%) VPN
6 22 (8.66%) LAN
6 22 (8.66%) Network Security
7 21 (8.27%) BIG-IP
8 19 (7.48%) Wireshark
9 17 (6.69%) HTTP
9 17 (6.69%) NX-OS
9 17 (6.69%) SSL
10 15 (5.91%) BGP
10 15 (5.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 14 (5.51%) Wireless
12 13 (5.12%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (4.33%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (4.33%) OSPF
13 11 (4.33%) SD-WAN
13 11 (4.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.36%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (8.66%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.54%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.18%) GitLab
4 2 (0.79%) JIRA
4 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.39%) Git
General
1 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.24%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.94%) Finance
6 6 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Retail
8 3 (1.18%) Legal
8 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (29.53%) Architect
2 45 (17.72%) Network Engineer
3 35 (13.78%) Consultant
4 33 (12.99%) VMware Engineer
5 29 (11.42%) Senior
6 27 (10.63%) VMware Architect
7 25 (9.84%) VMware Consultant
8 19 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.30%) Lead
10 15 (5.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 14 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.72%) Technical Architect
13 11 (4.33%) Junior
13 11 (4.33%) Network Architect
13 11 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 9 (3.54%) Junior Network Engineer
15 9 (3.54%) Web Engineer
16 7 (2.76%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
16 7 (2.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.51%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.15%) LDAP
2 8 (3.15%) SAML
3 4 (1.57%) Flash
3 4 (1.57%) REST
4 2 (0.79%) Django
5 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.39%) Jinja
5 1 (0.39%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.08%) Data Centre
2 34 (13.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (12.60%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.12%) PKI
5 10 (3.94%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.15%) SCADA
7 6 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.36%) Replication
8 4 (1.57%) NVMe
9 3 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.79%) Clustering
10 2 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.79%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (0.39%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.39%) RSA SecurID
11 1 (0.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.35%) Linux
1 39 (15.35%) Windows
2 25 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.57%) CatOS
7 3 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.18%) VMS
7 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.79%) Debian
8 2 (0.79%) Unix
9 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (21.26%) Migration
2 53 (20.87%) Load Balancing
3 40 (15.75%) Network Virtualisation
3 40 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (14.57%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.39%) High Availability
6 32 (12.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 31 (12.20%) DevOps
8 28 (11.02%) Containerisation
8 28 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (9.06%) Use Case
11 22 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (7.87%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.48%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (7.48%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 19 (7.48%) Zero Trust
14 18 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (6.69%) RBAC
16 16 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.11%) Python
2 24 (9.45%) Bash
3 20 (7.87%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.79%) C
4 2 (0.79%) Perl
5 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 69 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 54 (21.26%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (7.09%) VCAP
7 17 (6.69%) CCNP
8 9 (3.54%) CCIE
9 6 (2.36%) CISSP
9 6 (2.36%) Degree
9 6 (2.36%) OCP
9 6 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.57%) VCDX
11 3 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.18%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.18%) CCSP
12 2 (0.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.72%) NIST
2 8 (3.15%) NCSC
3 4 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.57%) GDPR
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 166 (65.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (37.01%) vSphere
3 44 (17.32%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (10.24%) Active Directory
5 10 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.57%) Docker
6 4 (1.57%) Firmware
6 4 (1.57%) vCloud
7 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.79%) NFS
8 1 (0.39%) SRDF
8 1 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 60 (23.62%) Ansible
2 57 (22.44%) vCenter Server
3 36 (14.17%) Terraform
4 29 (11.42%) Kubernetes
5 23 (9.06%) Argo
6 20 (7.87%) vRealize
7 18 (7.09%) Grafana
8 15 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (4.33%) FortiGate
9 11 (4.33%) NetBackup
10 10 (3.94%) PowerCLI
11 7 (2.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (2.36%) vMotion
13 5 (1.97%) SCCM
14 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.18%) WSUS
15 2 (0.79%) Istio
15 2 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
15 2 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 2 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 247 (97.24%) VMware
2 64 (25.20%) Cisco
3 35 (13.78%) F5
4 28 (11.02%) Palo Alto
5 22 (8.66%) Broadcom
5 22 (8.66%) Pure Storage
6 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
7 20 (7.87%) Red Hat
8 17 (6.69%) SolarWinds
8 17 (6.69%) Splunk
9 14 (5.51%) CheckPoint
9 14 (5.51%) Juniper
10 11 (4.33%) McAfee
11 10 (3.94%) Veritas
12 9 (3.54%) Blue Coat
13 8 (3.15%) Dell
13 8 (3.15%) NetApp
14 7 (2.76%) Arista
14 7 (2.76%) Zerto
15 6 (2.36%) NVIDIA