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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 12 0 25
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.36% - 1.22%
As % of the System Software category 3.43% - 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 22
10th Percentile £263 - £300
25th Percentile £300 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £614
75th Percentile £550 - £655
90th Percentile £570 - £672
England median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +7.50%

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 350 212 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.55% 14.38% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 145 151
10th Percentile £212 £187 £185
25th Percentile £326 £375 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £42.50 - £14.59
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 £15.65
Median hourly rate £66.57 £36.65 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.66% +129.03% -13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.97 £19.95
90th Percentile £75.25 - £22.23
England median hourly rate £52.75 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.90% +28.89% -55.00%

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 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 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
Birmingham - 6 £563 - 1
Coventry - 2 £275 -
Warwickshire - 2 £320 -
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:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
1 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) HTTP
2 6 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 6 (50.00%) IPsec
2 6 (50.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) SSL
3 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 5 (41.67%) Wireless
3 5 (41.67%) Wireshark
4 4 (33.33%) Ethereal
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
1 6 (50.00%) SAML
2 3 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Argo
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) F5
2 6 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 3 (25.00%) Pure Storage
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (25.00%) Splunk
4 3 (25.00%) Veeam
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet