VMware NSX Jobs

VMware NSX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VMware NSX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware NSX over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 790 856
Rank change year-on-year +203 +66 +228
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 97 95 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.097% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.80% 0.77% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 84 73 113
10th Percentile £51,250 - £43,250
25th Percentile £67,813 £31,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £54,000 £76,316
90th Percentile - £65,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +70.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware NSX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware NSX.

Salary trend for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +218 89 £77,500 +82.35% 30
UK excluding London +181 63 £85,000 +70.00% 33
South East +154 43 £85,000 +4.62% 7
Work from Home +185 12 £62,500 +15.74% 18
North of England +84 11 £71,991 +25.20% 7
London +110 10 £90,000 -10.00% 1
North West +31 7 £71,991 +19.99% 4
East of England - 6 £58,750 -
Yorkshire +73 4 - - 3
South West +98 1 £45,000 -16.67% 11
Scotland +95 1 - - 5
Midlands +38 1 - - 3
West Midlands +28 1 - - 2

VMware NSX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) IaaS
2 36 (37.11%) Azure
3 30 (30.93%) GCP
4 7 (7.22%) AWS
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.03%) PaaS
5 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (42.27%) VSAN
2 40 (41.24%) WAN
3 37 (38.14%) LAN
4 36 (37.11%) Firewall
5 29 (29.90%) SD-WAN
6 25 (25.77%) Cisco ISE
6 25 (25.77%) Ethernet
7 13 (13.40%) DNS
8 10 (10.31%) DHCP
9 9 (9.28%) BGP
9 9 (9.28%) OSPF
9 9 (9.28%) SAN
9 9 (9.28%) TCP/IP
10 7 (7.22%) VPN
11 6 (6.19%) MPLS
11 6 (6.19%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (5.15%) NAS
12 5 (5.15%) Network Security
13 4 (4.12%) EIGRP
14 3 (3.09%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.12%) JIRA
General
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.19%) Banking
3 5 (5.15%) Finance
3 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Retail
5 3 (3.09%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.03%) Games
6 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) VMware Specialist
2 27 (27.84%) Architect
3 25 (25.77%) Network Architect
4 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.43%) Network Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior
7 7 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Designer
8 4 (4.12%) Network Designer
9 3 (3.09%) Lead
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) VMware Engineer
10 2 (2.06%) Administrator
10 2 (2.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 1 (1.03%) Infrastructure Architect
11 1 (1.03%) Senior Technical Architect
11 1 (1.03%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.77%) JSON
2 5 (5.15%) Middleware
3 4 (4.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (36.08%) Data Centre
2 25 (25.77%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Windows
2 12 (12.37%) Linux
3 7 (7.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.06%) CentOS
5 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) Due Diligence
2 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (12.37%) Network Virtualisation
4 11 (11.34%) Agile
5 10 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (7.22%) Architectural Design
7 6 (6.19%) Computer Science
7 6 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (5.15%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (5.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (5.15%) Customer Service
8 5 (5.15%) Defect Management
8 5 (5.15%) Fintech
8 5 (5.15%) Mentoring
8 5 (5.15%) Migration
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (5.15%) Service Design
9 4 (4.12%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (4.12%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (4.12%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.16%) Python
2 41 (42.27%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (80.41%) Security Cleared
2 48 (49.48%) DV Cleared
3 28 (28.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (11.34%) Degree
6 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (8.25%) CCNP
7 8 (8.25%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (6.19%) CCIE
8 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.09%) MCSA
11 2 (2.06%) CCNA
11 2 (2.06%) MCP
11 2 (2.06%) MCSE
11 2 (2.06%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.03%) NCSC
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
2 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (64.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (43.30%) vSphere
3 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.12%) Docker
6 2 (2.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.06%) Firmware
6 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.03%) GPFS
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (38.14%) Ansible
2 30 (30.93%) Terraform
3 26 (26.80%) FortiGate
4 11 (11.34%) vRealize
5 8 (8.25%) Progress Chef
5 8 (8.25%) vCenter Server
5 8 (8.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 8 (8.25%) VxRail
6 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.09%) Avamar
7 3 (3.09%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (3.09%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.06%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.06%) WSUS
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.03%) SCCM
9 1 (1.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 97 (100.00%) VMware
2 46 (47.42%) Cisco
3 31 (31.96%) F5
4 30 (30.93%) CheckPoint
4 30 (30.93%) Google
5 25 (25.77%) Blue Coat
6 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
7 7 (7.22%) Dell
7 7 (7.22%) EMC
8 6 (6.19%) Fortinet
8 6 (6.19%) Palo Alto
9 5 (5.15%) Citrix
9 5 (5.15%) Oracle
10 3 (3.09%) Aruba
10 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.06%) Isilon
11 2 (2.06%) McAfee
11 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.06%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.03%) Broadcom