VMware NSX Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 412 639
Rank change year-on-year -100 +227 +20
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 52 78 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.72% 2.47% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 32 70 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £51,719 £51,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +50.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,063 £87,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £81,750 - £55,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -21.88%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,023 3,160 8,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.01% 12.20% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,217 2,505 7,278
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,400 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware NSX in the UK excluding London

VMware NSX
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware NSX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -60 29 £56,750 -33.24% 16
Wales - 9 £65,000 - 2
North of England -76 8 £58,750 +23.68% 11
South West -45 6 £67,500 +50.00% 10
North West -44 4 £76,250 +60.53% 7
Yorkshire -54 4 £50,000 - 3
VMware NSX
UK

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.77%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (63.46%) Firewall
2 18 (34.62%) BGP
2 18 (34.62%) DNS
3 16 (30.77%) VPN
4 14 (26.92%) DHCP
5 12 (23.08%) MPLS
5 12 (23.08%) WAN
6 9 (17.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (17.31%) Cisco IOS
6 9 (17.31%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (17.31%) Junos
6 9 (17.31%) NX-OS
7 8 (15.38%) LAN
7 8 (15.38%) SD-WAN
7 8 (15.38%) VoIP
7 8 (15.38%) VPLS
8 6 (11.54%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (9.62%) VSAN
10 4 (7.69%) HSRP
10 4 (7.69%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 20 (38.46%) Finance
2 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Marketing
4 4 (7.69%) Retail
4 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Network Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) Senior
3 13 (25.00%) Architect
4 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (9.62%) Lead
8 5 (9.62%) Lead Architect
9 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) IT Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) IT Support
9 4 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Consultant
10 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) ModSecurity
1 4 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.92%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) PKI
2 16 (30.77%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) Security Posture
4 4 (7.69%) CMDB
5 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Clustering
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 27 (51.92%) Windows
2 19 (36.54%) Windows Server
3 18 (34.62%) Linux
4 4 (7.69%) Unix
5 2 (3.85%) VMS
6 1 (1.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.92%) FreeBSD
6 1 (1.92%) OpenBSD
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (26.92%) Service Management
3 13 (25.00%) SIEM
4 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (19.23%) ITIL
4 10 (19.23%) Network Design
5 9 (17.31%) Change Management
5 9 (17.31%) ITSM
6 8 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 7 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (13.46%) Zero Trust
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.54%) DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) High Availability
8 6 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security
9 5 (9.62%) Observability
9 5 (9.62%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 37 (71.15%) DV Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
4 10 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (15.38%) Degree
6 6 (11.54%) CCIE
6 6 (11.54%) CCNP
7 5 (9.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (7.69%) CCNA
9 2 (3.85%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (3.85%) VCAP
9 2 (3.85%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (30.77%) vSphere
3 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 11 (21.15%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (17.31%) Firmware
6 6 (11.54%) Docker
7 2 (3.85%) vCloud
8 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.92%) KVM
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (40.38%) Ansible
2 17 (32.69%) vCenter Server
3 12 (23.08%) vRealize
4 9 (17.31%) Terraform
5 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
6 5 (9.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (7.69%) WSUS
8 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.85%) VxRail
9 1 (1.92%) Argo
9 1 (1.92%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 43 (82.69%) VMware
2 22 (42.31%) Cisco
3 11 (21.15%) Broadcom
4 9 (17.31%) Juniper
4 9 (17.31%) SolarWinds
5 8 (15.38%) Splunk
6 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
7 6 (11.54%) Dell
8 5 (9.62%) CheckPoint
9 4 (7.69%) NetApp
10 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.85%) Citrix
11 2 (3.85%) F5
11 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
11 2 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (3.85%) Veeam
12 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.92%) Pure Storage
12 1 (1.92%) Red Hat