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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 480 472
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +191
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 29 100 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 1.02% 2.23% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 72 63
10th Percentile £46,350 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £75,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% +100.00% -40.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £79,375 £53,875
90th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £54,829
UK median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.67% +50.00% -25.93%

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 2,830 4,487 5,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.75% 12.04% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,988 2,593 4,380
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.83%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

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 1 January 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 1 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
South East -7 21 £55,000 -26.67% 13
North of England +10 4 £67,500 +42.11% 2
North West +10 3 £67,500 +42.11%
South West +4 3 £61,250 -30.00% 2
Wales - 1 £38,500 -
North East - 1 - -
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 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) Cisco ISE
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco Firepower
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (34.48%) Junos
4 9 (31.03%) NX-OS
5 5 (17.24%) BGP
6 4 (13.79%) DNS
7 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (10.34%) VPN
7 3 (10.34%) VSAN
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.90%) DHCP
8 2 (6.90%) NetScaler
8 2 (6.90%) OSPF
8 2 (6.90%) SAN
9 1 (3.45%) IPsec
9 1 (3.45%) MPLS
9 1 (3.45%) VLAN
9 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Network Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (6.90%) WCF
2 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Windows Server
3 7 (24.14%) Linux
4 3 (10.34%) VMS
5 1 (3.45%) CentOS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) ITSM
1 11 (37.93%) Service Management
2 9 (31.03%) Change Management
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Network Design
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.34%) GitOps
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
5 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) Security Hardening
5 3 (10.34%) Security Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Service Design
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) CCNP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Firmware
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.69%) vSphere
3 5 (17.24%) Docker
4 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
5 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) vCenter Server
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.24%) vRealize
4 4 (13.79%) VxRail
5 2 (6.90%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) VMware
2 17 (58.62%) Cisco
3 11 (37.93%) SolarWinds
4 10 (34.48%) Juniper
5 9 (31.03%) Broadcom
6 4 (13.79%) Dell
6 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
7 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
7 3 (10.34%) F5
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 2 (6.90%) Citrix
8 2 (6.90%) NetApp
8 2 (6.90%) Veeam
9 1 (3.45%) Aruba
9 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
9 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
9 1 (3.45%) Red Hat