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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 184 197
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +60
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 3 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.059% 0.12% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 0.68% 0.79% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 16
10th Percentile £53,625 - £36,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £83,750 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £87,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +65.09% -23.68%
75th Percentile £67,813 £91,250 £54,000
90th Percentile £69,875 - -
England median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -22.67% +47.06% -21.54%

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 439 631 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.64% 15.22% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 304 343 762
10th Percentile £26,110 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,725 £87,200 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -

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
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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +23 2 £61,250 -
Wiltshire +8 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds