VMware NSX Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware NSX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 84 90
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 +94
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 6 31 28
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 1.65% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 1.60% 14.42% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 13
10th Percentile £404 £300 £403
25th Percentile £474 £381 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +18.10% -
75th Percentile £619 £661 £600
90th Percentile £630 £674 -
England median daily rate £539 £538 £505
% change year-on-year +0.19% +6.44% -8.18%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 374 215 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.69% 11.41% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 148 212
10th Percentile £220 £168 £160
25th Percentile £400 £292 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £490 £421
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% +16.32% +5.31%
75th Percentile £581 £612 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £17.53 £17.53
25th Percentile £54.75 £19.81 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £24.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.99% +27.63% +0.74%
75th Percentile £58.25 £29.31 £28.19
90th Percentile - £31.98 £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -42.86% +19.88% +86.35%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware NSX in the West Midlands

VMware NSX
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Coventry - 2 £525 - 1
Warwickshire -18 1 £625 -3.10% 1
Birmingham - 1 £575 - 1
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) IPv4
2 4 (66.67%) IPv6
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) WLAN
3 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Network Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) SUSE
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 4 (66.67%) Network Management
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Network Design
2 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) JNCIE
3 2 (33.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Meraki
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Forcepoint
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Veeam