VMware NSX Job Trends in the South West

VMware NSX
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 167 217
Rank change year-on-year -58 +50 -10
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 15 2 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.057% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.52% 0.50% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,500 £57,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £84,375 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +17.87%

All System Software Skills
South West

VMware NSX falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 596 404 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.94% 11.56% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 371 266 551
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -13.30% -

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the South West

VMware NSX
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VMware NSX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware NSX in the South West

VMware NSX
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware NSX within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire -48 9 £60,500 +10.00% 7
Wiltshire - 5 - - 9
Bristol - 1 £72,500 - 1
VMware NSX
England

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Fargate
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 4 (26.67%) BGP
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
3 4 (26.67%) IPv4
4 3 (20.00%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) NGN
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) NAS
5 1 (6.67%) SAN
5 1 (6.67%) VLAN
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Network Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (26.67%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Zero Trust
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bash
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (33.33%) CCNP
4 5 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (26.67%) CCIE
5 4 (26.67%) CCNA
5 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (26.67%) OSCP
5 4 (26.67%) RHCE
5 4 (26.67%) RHCSA
6 1 (6.67%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.67%) Degree
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) vSphere
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) Docker
3 4 (26.67%) Squid
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Packer
3 4 (26.67%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Dell
4 4 (26.67%) F5
4 4 (26.67%) Infoblox
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (26.67%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp