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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 362 485
Rank change year-on-year -58 +123 +130
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 99 215 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 2.73% 4.59% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 146 148
10th Percentile £434 £428 £413
25th Percentile £525 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.37%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £591
90th Percentile £643 £660 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £52.75 £61.25
25th Percentile £78.75 £56.88 £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 £66.00
90th Percentile - £76.65 £70.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 £72.75 £63.23
% change year-on-year +13.40% +15.06% +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 3,631 4,687 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.45% 10.93% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,434 3,257 5,169
10th Percentile £220 £200 £200
25th Percentile £391 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £606 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 227 253
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £19.00
Median hourly rate £28.21 £24.18 £54.83
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% -55.90% +174.15%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £24.18 £48.40
% change year-on-year +33.67% -50.04% +176.57%

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 31 May 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 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 31 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
England -45 89 £550 - 22
UK excluding London -28 69 £550 - 14
Work from Home +14 31 £550 - 13
South West +3 22 £550 +1.15% 4
London +35 20 £600 +12.15% 8
South East -4 17 £581 +5.68% 5
East of England - 16 £503 - 1
North of England +27 13 £425 -17.07% 2
Yorkshire - 9 £513 -
North West +10 4 £425 -17.07% 2
Scotland -2 3 - -
North East - 1 £625 -

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 (12.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) IIS
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.18%) Azure
2 16 (16.16%) AWS
3 10 (10.10%) IaaS
4 7 (7.07%) GCP
4 7 (7.07%) GitHub
4 7 (7.07%) Nutanix
5 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.03%) SaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.02%) PaaS
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.01%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.31%) VSAN
2 27 (27.27%) Firewall
3 14 (14.14%) VPN
4 13 (13.13%) WAN
5 12 (12.12%) DNS
5 12 (12.12%) Network Security
6 9 (9.09%) VLAN
7 8 (8.08%) BGP
7 8 (8.08%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (8.08%) LAN
7 8 (8.08%) OSPF
7 8 (8.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.07%) NGFW
8 7 (7.07%) SAN
9 6 (6.06%) MPLS
10 5 (5.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.05%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (5.05%) NAS
10 5 (5.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) JIRA
2 6 (6.06%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) GitLab
3 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.03%) Billing
5 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Finance
7 1 (1.01%) Law
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (18.18%) Consultant
3 17 (17.17%) VMware Engineer
4 16 (16.16%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Architect
6 13 (13.13%) VMware Consultant
7 12 (12.12%) Network Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior
9 6 (6.06%) Cisco Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.05%) VMware Specialist
11 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Technical Architect
11 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) Flash
2 4 (4.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.01%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.21%) Clustering
2 19 (19.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (16.16%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.07%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (7.07%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.06%) PKI
5 6 (6.06%) Replication
6 5 (5.05%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.01%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Windows
2 15 (15.15%) Linux
3 14 (14.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.04%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) VMS
5 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.02%) CentOS
6 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (23.23%) Agile
3 20 (20.20%) Network Virtualisation
4 19 (19.19%) High Availability
4 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.18%) Validation
6 17 (17.17%) Service Management
6 17 (17.17%) Waterfall
7 15 (15.15%) Migration
8 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
8 14 (14.14%) NsoIT
8 14 (14.14%) Power Management
8 14 (14.14%) System Testing
9 12 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 12 (12.12%) Critical Thinking
9 12 (12.12%) ITIL
10 10 (10.10%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (9.09%) Zero Trust
12 8 (8.08%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.20%) Python
2 14 (14.14%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.08%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.01%) Bash
4 1 (1.01%) C
4 1 (1.01%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (56.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (43.43%) SC Cleared
3 26 (26.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 25 (25.25%) DV Cleared
5 16 (16.16%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (15.15%) CCNA
7 14 (14.14%) Degree
8 12 (12.12%) Master's Degree
8 12 (12.12%) VCAP
9 6 (6.06%) MCSE
9 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (5.05%) CCNP
11 3 (3.03%) DBS Check
12 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.02%) JNCIA
12 2 (2.02%) MCSA
12 2 (2.02%) VCDX
13 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) NIST
2 5 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.05%) NCSC
3 3 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (67.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (31.31%) VMware ESXi
2 31 (31.31%) vSphere
3 19 (19.19%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.04%) Docker
5 4 (4.04%) Firmware
5 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (32.32%) vCenter Server
2 22 (22.22%) vRealize
3 21 (21.21%) Ansible
4 18 (18.18%) PowerCLI
5 13 (13.13%) Terraform
6 12 (12.12%) VxRail
7 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes
8 6 (6.06%) FortiGate
8 6 (6.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (4.04%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (4.04%) Podman
10 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (2.02%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.02%) Nagios
11 2 (2.02%) SCOM
11 2 (2.02%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.01%) Nessus
12 1 (1.01%) SCCM
12 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) VMware
2 31 (31.31%) Cisco
3 13 (13.13%) Atlassian
3 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
4 11 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 10 (10.10%) Dell
6 7 (7.07%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.05%) Google
8 4 (4.04%) F5
8 4 (4.04%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.04%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (4.04%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.03%) Ericsson
9 3 (3.03%) Infoblox
9 3 (3.03%) Mavenir
9 3 (3.03%) Nokia
9 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.03%) Veeam
10 2 (2.02%) HP
10 2 (2.02%) Juniper