VMware NSX Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware NSX
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 289 378
Rank change year-on-year -3 +89 +130
Contract jobs citing VMware NSX 25 57 78
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 2.16% 3.94% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 44 52
10th Percentile £473 £416 £419
25th Percentile £525 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +1.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £624 £585
90th Percentile £596 £638 £624
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.24% -13.73%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.55
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £63.23
% change year-on-year - +6.75% +0.37%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,157 1,448 2,965
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.38% 9.93% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 1,059 2,078
10th Percentile £330 £285 £295
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £699 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 119
10th Percentile £28.58 £14.38 £17.72
25th Percentile £53.63 £15.50 £37.30
Median hourly rate £66.00 £29.28 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -53.53% +121.75%
75th Percentile £92.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%

VMware NSX
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware NSX trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware NSX.

VMware NSX daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware NSX
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

VMware NSX daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware NSX
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware NSX.

VMware NSX hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (44.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) IaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.00%) PaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Network Security
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) VSAN
3 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (4.00%) DHCP
5 1 (4.00%) NGFW
5 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) VMware Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Architect
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Flash
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Clustering
2 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) CentOS
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) Validation
3 10 (40.00%) High Availability
3 10 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (40.00%) Service Management
3 10 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 9 (36.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (36.00%) Critical Thinking
4 9 (36.00%) NsoIT
4 9 (36.00%) Power Management
4 9 (36.00%) System Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Runbook
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (36.00%) CCNA
2 9 (36.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 9 (36.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (16.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (28.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) vRealize
4 3 (12.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (8.00%) VxRail
6 1 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.00%) Nagios
6 1 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (36.00%) Atlassian
2 9 (36.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Dell
3 3 (12.00%) F5
4 2 (8.00%) Broadcom
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Sophos
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Zscaler