VMware NSX Job Trends

VMware NSX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VMware NSX skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 558 702
Rank change year-on-year -54 +144 +168
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 58 137 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.33% 2.12% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 36 102 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £51,781 £53,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +76.47% -34.62%
75th Percentile £80,625 £87,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £86,969 £92,375 £59,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +76.47% -22.73%

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 4,355 6,449 10,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.63% 12.90% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,027 3,905 9,164
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.48% +14.44% -5.26%

VMware NSX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware NSX job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware NSX
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware NSX

VMware NSX
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware NSX over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 11 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 10 February 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
England -33 51 £58,000 -22.67% 26
UK excluding London -42 43 £55,000 -26.67% 20
South East -22 28 £55,875 -25.50% 3
Work from Home +55 21 £77,500 +7.65% 12
North of England -19 9 £58,750 +23.68% 8
London +16 6 £78,625 -12.64% 7
South West -11 5 £61,250 -7.55% 6
North West -1 4 £73,750 +55.26% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £50,000 - 7
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £38,500 -

VMware NSX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (15.52%) SharePoint
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.62%) Nutanix
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (56.90%) Firewall
2 15 (25.86%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (22.41%) BGP
4 11 (18.97%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (18.97%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (18.97%) Junos
5 10 (17.24%) DNS
5 10 (17.24%) NX-OS
6 9 (15.52%) VPN
7 8 (13.79%) LAN
7 8 (13.79%) SD-WAN
7 8 (13.79%) WAN
8 6 (10.34%) DHCP
8 6 (10.34%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (8.62%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (8.62%) MPLS
9 5 (8.62%) VSAN
10 4 (6.90%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (6.90%) VoIP
10 4 (6.90%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (34.48%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Marketing
4 4 (6.90%) Retail
4 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Electronics
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Network Engineer
2 14 (24.14%) Architect
2 14 (24.14%) Senior
3 11 (18.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Consultant
6 5 (8.62%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Support
7 4 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Network Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Principal Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Consultant
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (5.17%) JSON
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.45%) WCF
4 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Data Centre
2 14 (24.14%) PKI
3 4 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Clustering
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (39.66%) Windows
2 17 (29.31%) Linux
3 14 (24.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) CentOS
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (20.69%) ITSM
3 11 (18.97%) Service Management
4 10 (17.24%) Change Management
5 9 (15.52%) Network Design
6 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.34%) Cloud Security
8 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.34%) DevOps
8 6 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.62%) Load Balancing
9 5 (8.62%) Security Testing
9 5 (8.62%) Service Design
9 5 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (8.62%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.62%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) Bash
3 2 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (68.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (12.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (8.62%) VCAP
6 4 (6.90%) CCNA
7 3 (5.17%) CCNP
8 1 (1.72%) CCIE
8 1 (1.72%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (22.41%) vSphere
3 10 (17.24%) Firmware
4 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
5 7 (12.07%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (10.34%) Docker
7 1 (1.72%) vCloud
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Ansible
2 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 16 (27.59%) vCenter Server
3 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (17.24%) vRealize
4 4 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
4 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.90%) Puppet
4 4 (6.90%) VxRail
4 4 (6.90%) WSUS
4 4 (6.90%) ZABBIX
5 3 (5.17%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (81.03%) VMware
2 26 (44.83%) Cisco
3 12 (20.69%) SolarWinds
4 11 (18.97%) Juniper
5 10 (17.24%) Broadcom
6 8 (13.79%) CheckPoint
6 8 (13.79%) F5
7 6 (10.34%) Dell
7 6 (10.34%) Palo Alto
8 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
9 4 (6.90%) Cribl.io
9 4 (6.90%) Splunk
10 3 (5.17%) Blue Coat
10 3 (5.17%) Google
10 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
10 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
11 2 (3.45%) Citrix
11 2 (3.45%) NetApp
11 2 (3.45%) Veeam
12 1 (1.72%) Aruba