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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 98 102
Rank change year-on-year -45 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 13 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.072% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 3.48% 0.53% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile £263 - £469
25th Percentile £281 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £662 £550
Median % change year-on-year -48.60% +20.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £582 - £575
90th Percentile £608 - -
England median daily rate £565 £550 £529
% change year-on-year +2.73% +4.07% +3.12%

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 374 190 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.32% 13.77% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 135 122
10th Percentile £263 £161 £178
25th Percentile £367 £210 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +19.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £567 £644 £572
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - - £14.41
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.22 £15.21
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% -3.78%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £20.90
90th Percentile £73.64 £32.44 £22.61
England median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% +30.23% -56.08%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 £600 -
Coventry - 4 £275 -
Warwickshire -16 3 £340 -48.60%
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 7 (53.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) DNS
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) BIG-IP
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 7 (53.85%) Ethereal
2 7 (53.85%) HTTP
2 7 (53.85%) HTTPS
2 7 (53.85%) IPsec
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) SSL
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Wireless
2 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
3 3 (23.08%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) LDAP
1 7 (53.85%) SAML
2 3 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Network Packet Capture
3 3 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Password Management
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Argo
2 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (76.92%) Cisco
3 7 (53.85%) CheckPoint
3 7 (53.85%) F5
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (53.85%) Palo Alto
4 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
5 3 (23.08%) Broadcom
5 3 (23.08%) Pure Storage
5 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
5 3 (23.08%) Splunk