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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 88 90
Rank change year-on-year -45 +2 +78
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 11 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.48% 0.87% 1.12%
As % of the System Software category 2.66% 7.82% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £306 £374 £468
25th Percentile £424 £384 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £459 £538
Median % change year-on-year +25.34% -14.65% +7.50%
75th Percentile £611 £615 £594
90th Percentile £623 £696 £600
England median daily rate £545 £550 £523
% change year-on-year -0.91% +5.26% -5.00%

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 413 179 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.03% 11.12% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 126 164
10th Percentile £249 £158 £157
25th Percentile £380 £200 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £611 £539
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% +3.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £15.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -16.38%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - £27.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £48.11 £28.71 £46.09
% change year-on-year +67.60% -37.72% +77.27%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 - 4 £608 - 1
Coventry - 4 £400 -
Warwickshire -8 2 £483 -27.06%
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 4 (36.36%) GCP
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 7 (63.64%) LAN
2 7 (63.64%) VPN
2 7 (63.64%) WAN
2 7 (63.64%) Wireless
3 4 (36.36%) BGP
3 4 (36.36%) DHCP
3 4 (36.36%) EIGRP
3 4 (36.36%) IPv4
3 4 (36.36%) IPv6
3 4 (36.36%) MPLS
3 4 (36.36%) OSPF
3 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
3 4 (36.36%) VLAN
3 4 (36.36%) VXLAN
3 4 (36.36%) WLAN
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) NX-OS
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Network Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (54.55%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) Network Management
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
3 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Network Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Network Design
3 3 (27.27%) Password Management
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCIE
2 3 (27.27%) CCIE Security
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) CCSP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) JNCIE
3 2 (18.18%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
1 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (90.91%) Cisco
3 7 (63.64%) F5
3 7 (63.64%) Palo Alto
4 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
5 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
5 4 (36.36%) Meraki
6 3 (27.27%) Broadcom
6 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 2 (18.18%) Forcepoint
7 2 (18.18%) Juniper