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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 574 626
Rank change year-on-year -35 +52 +217
Permanent jobs citing VMware NSX 41 133 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 0.96% 1.97% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26 91 76
10th Percentile £50,625 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +62.16% -28.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £61,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £75,000 £42,155
% change year-on-year -24.33% +77.91% -32.55%

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 4,254 6,744 8,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.19% 12.43% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,030 4,063 6,984
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £74,940 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £48,035
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.09% -0.96%

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 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware NSX in the UK

VMware NSX
Top 10 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 5 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
England -17 34 £58,000 -22.67% 19
UK excluding London -20 29 £56,750 -24.33% 15
South East -16 21 £55,000 -26.67% 10
Work from Home +74 14 £75,000 +30.43% 14
North of England +9 4 £67,500 +42.11% 3
South West +5 3 £61,250 -30.00%
North West +4 3 £67,500 +42.11%
London +30 2 £53,000 -41.11% 9
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 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) GCP
3 5 (12.20%) Nutanix
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.44%) IaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (65.85%) Firewall
2 15 (36.59%) Cisco ISE
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco Firepower
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (24.39%) Junos
4 9 (21.95%) NX-OS
5 7 (17.07%) BGP
6 6 (14.63%) VSAN
7 5 (12.20%) DNS
7 5 (12.20%) LAN
7 5 (12.20%) SD-WAN
7 5 (12.20%) VPN
7 5 (12.20%) WAN
8 4 (9.76%) Ethernet
9 3 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.32%) OSPF
10 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (4.88%) NetScaler
10 2 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (4.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Advertising
5 1 (2.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Network Engineer
2 11 (26.83%) Architect
3 10 (24.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) Network Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Consultant
6 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Principal Consultant
6 4 (9.76%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Architect
7 3 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.88%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.88%) WCF
3 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Data Centre
2 9 (21.95%) PKI
3 4 (9.76%) Private Cloud
3 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Clustering
4 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Windows
2 10 (24.39%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.07%) Linux
4 3 (7.32%) VMS
5 1 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) ITSM
1 11 (26.83%) Service Management
2 9 (21.95%) Change Management
3 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Load Balancing
6 5 (12.20%) Network Design
7 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.76%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (9.76%) Due Diligence
7 4 (9.76%) Migration
7 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.32%) Security Hardening
8 3 (7.32%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) DV Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) VCAP
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.88%) CCNP
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.95%) Firmware
3 8 (19.51%) vSphere
4 5 (12.20%) Docker
5 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
5 4 (9.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) vCenter Server
2 11 (26.83%) Terraform
3 10 (24.39%) Ansible
4 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
4 6 (14.63%) vRealize
5 4 (9.76%) FortiGate
5 4 (9.76%) VxRail
6 2 (4.88%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 31 (75.61%) VMware
2 22 (53.66%) Cisco
3 11 (26.83%) SolarWinds
4 10 (24.39%) Juniper
5 9 (21.95%) Broadcom
6 8 (19.51%) F5
7 7 (17.07%) CheckPoint
8 5 (12.20%) Dell
8 5 (12.20%) Palo Alto
8 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
9 4 (9.76%) Blue Coat
9 4 (9.76%) Google
10 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
11 2 (4.88%) Citrix
11 2 (4.88%) Infoblox
11 2 (4.88%) NetApp
11 2 (4.88%) Veeam
12 1 (2.44%) Aruba
12 1 (2.44%) Pure Storage
12 1 (2.44%) Splunk