VMware NSX Contracts

VMware NSX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 407 533
Rank change year-on-year +10 +126 +82
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 122 195 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.33% 4.16% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 125 129
10th Percentile £463 £438 £412
25th Percentile £516 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +4.39% -5.88%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £585
90th Percentile £650 £668 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £53.00 £62.00
25th Percentile £78.75 £57.50 £62.62
Median hourly rate £82.50 £63.75 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +0.82% +33.12%
75th Percentile £86.25 £72.94 £68.13
90th Percentile - £75.98 £72.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £63.23
% change year-on-year +22.22% +6.75% +33.12%

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

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 30 April 2025.

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
Top 14 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 30 April 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
England +11 107 £550 +4.36% 30
UK excluding London +12 87 £550 +4.76% 33
Work from Home +33 42 £550 - 18
South East +23 30 £591 +13.48% 7
South West +19 26 £550 +4.76% 11
London +16 21 £600 +12.15% 1
East of England - 16 £503 -
North of England +37 13 £425 -17.07% 7
Yorkshire - 9 £513 - 3
North West +12 4 £425 -17.07% 4
Scotland -3 3 - - 5
Midlands +16 1 £662 +20.27% 3
West Midlands +9 1 £662 +20.27% 2
North East 0 1 £625 +20.19%

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 12 (9.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) IIS
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.57%) Azure
2 17 (13.93%) AWS
3 16 (13.11%) IaaS
4 13 (10.66%) PaaS
5 8 (6.56%) SaaS
6 7 (5.74%) Nutanix
7 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.10%) GCP
8 5 (4.10%) GitHub
9 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.82%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 38 (31.15%) VSAN
2 34 (27.87%) Firewall
3 14 (11.48%) Network Security
4 13 (10.66%) VPN
5 12 (9.84%) DNS
5 12 (9.84%) WAN
6 10 (8.20%) BGP
6 10 (8.20%) OSPF
6 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
7 9 (7.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 8 (6.56%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (6.56%) VLAN
9 7 (5.74%) LAN
10 6 (4.92%) iSCSI
10 6 (4.92%) MPLS
10 6 (4.92%) NGFW
10 6 (4.92%) NX-OS
10 6 (4.92%) SAN
11 5 (4.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (4.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.30%) JIRA
2 4 (3.28%) Git
2 4 (3.28%) GitLab
2 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.49%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Finance
7 3 (2.46%) Billing
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Electronics
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Law
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (26.23%) Architect
2 19 (15.57%) Consultant
2 19 (15.57%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) Senior
4 15 (12.30%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Technical Architect
6 12 (9.84%) Senior Architect
7 11 (9.02%) Senior Technical Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Network Engineer
8 10 (8.20%) VMware Consultant
9 9 (7.38%) VMware Architect
10 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (4.10%) VMware Specialist
12 4 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.28%) Network Architect
12 4 (3.28%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
12 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.46%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.48%) Flash
2 4 (3.28%) Middleware
3 1 (0.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (18.03%) Data Centre
3 20 (16.39%) Clustering
4 13 (10.66%) PKI
5 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.74%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.92%) Replication
8 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.82%) RSA SecurID
10 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.57%) Windows
2 15 (12.30%) Linux
3 14 (11.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.28%) Unix
4 4 (3.28%) VMS
5 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.64%) CentOS
6 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (23.77%) Network Virtualisation
3 24 (19.67%) Agile
3 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
4 20 (16.39%) High Availability
4 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (15.57%) ITIL
6 18 (14.75%) Validation
7 17 (13.93%) Migration
7 17 (13.93%) Service Management
7 17 (13.93%) Waterfall
8 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
9 14 (11.48%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.48%) DevSecOps
9 14 (11.48%) NsoIT
9 14 (11.48%) Power Management
9 14 (11.48%) System Testing
9 14 (11.48%) TOGAF
10 13 (10.66%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.57%) Python
2 16 (13.11%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (0.82%) C
5 1 (0.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (61.48%) Security Cleared
2 57 (46.72%) SC Cleared
3 32 (26.23%) DV Cleared
4 31 (25.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (15.57%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (12.30%) CCNA
7 14 (11.48%) Degree
8 13 (10.66%) MCSE
8 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (9.84%) Master's Degree
10 10 (8.20%) VCAP
11 8 (6.56%) CCNP
12 3 (2.46%) CCIE
12 3 (2.46%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.64%) MCSA
14 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) NIST
2 12 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (9.84%) NCSC
3 3 (2.46%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (71.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (29.51%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (26.23%) vSphere
4 19 (15.57%) Active Directory
5 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.10%) vCloud
6 4 (3.28%) Docker
6 4 (3.28%) NFS
6 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (25.41%) vCenter Server
2 27 (22.13%) vRealize
3 24 (19.67%) Ansible
4 15 (12.30%) PowerCLI
4 15 (12.30%) Terraform
5 13 (10.66%) Kubernetes
6 12 (9.84%) VxRail
7 11 (9.02%) FortiGate
8 10 (8.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (3.28%) Podman
10 3 (2.46%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.64%) Nagios
11 2 (1.64%) SCOM
11 2 (1.64%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.82%) Grafana
12 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 122 (100.00%) VMware
2 44 (36.07%) Cisco
3 17 (13.93%) Palo Alto
4 14 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 13 (10.66%) Atlassian
6 10 (8.20%) Dell
7 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.74%) SolarWinds
8 6 (4.92%) Broadcom
9 5 (4.10%) Google
10 4 (3.28%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.46%) Ericsson
11 3 (2.46%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.46%) Juniper
11 3 (2.46%) Mavenir
11 3 (2.46%) Nokia
11 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.46%) Veeam
12 2 (1.64%) F5