Network Virtualisation Contracts in England

Network Virtualization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Network Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 513 616
Rank change year-on-year +59 +103 -86
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 89 135 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.30% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 88 102
10th Percentile £425 £450 £400
25th Percentile £469 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +26.67%
75th Percentile £706 £788 £637
90th Percentile £775 £822 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile - £62.30 £50.75
25th Percentile - £62.38 £53.36
Median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £62.99
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% +3.20% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £67.70
90th Percentile - £69.50 £68.89
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £62.99
% change year-on-year -63.38% +3.20% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Network Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Virtualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +74 33 £600 -17.24% 22
South East +16 14 £475 -20.83% 7
East of England +19 12 £475 -36.67% 1
North of England +35 11 £575 +31.43% 2
South West +1 11 £650 +15.56% 8
North West +29 9 £609 +39.20% 1
Midlands +24 4 £394 -26.74% 9
West Midlands - 4 £394 - 8
Yorkshire +23 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Network Virtualisation
UK

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.74%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) Tornado
3 2 (2.25%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) Entra ID
3 16 (17.98%) Azure Key Vault
4 10 (11.24%) AWS
5 9 (10.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (10.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.99%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.87%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.87%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.74%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.62%) GCP
9 5 (5.62%) PaaS
10 3 (3.37%) IaaS
10 3 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.37%) SaaS
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 31 (34.83%) Firewall
1 31 (34.83%) VPN
2 19 (21.35%) Network Security
3 18 (20.22%) DNS
4 14 (15.73%) 5G
5 13 (14.61%) 4G
6 12 (13.48%) WAN
7 9 (10.11%) LAN
7 9 (10.11%) SD-WAN
7 9 (10.11%) TCP/IP
8 8 (8.99%) BGP
8 8 (8.99%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (8.99%) HTTP
8 8 (8.99%) MPLS
8 8 (8.99%) OSPF
9 7 (7.87%) Internet
9 7 (7.87%) IPsec
9 7 (7.87%) VSAN
10 5 (5.62%) Wireless
11 4 (4.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) Power BI
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Big Data
4 1 (1.12%) DB2
4 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Git
General
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Finance
3 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.74%) Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.25%) Electronics
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Architect
2 18 (20.22%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Network Engineer
3 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Network Architect
4 8 (8.99%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Network Design Specialist
5 7 (7.87%) Network Specialist
5 7 (7.87%) Platform Architect
5 7 (7.87%) Power Platform Architect
5 7 (7.87%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Core Network Specialist
6 6 (6.74%) IP Design Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) IP Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) IP Network Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Mobile Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.61%) JSON
2 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (7.87%) REST
2 7 (7.87%) XML
3 6 (6.74%) .NET
3 6 (6.74%) Bokeh
3 6 (6.74%) Django
3 6 (6.74%) FastAPI
3 6 (6.74%) Flash
3 6 (6.74%) Flask
3 6 (6.74%) Node.js
3 6 (6.74%) OAuth
3 6 (6.74%) OAuth2
3 6 (6.74%) Pandas
3 6 (6.74%) pytest
4 5 (5.62%) Kafka
4 5 (5.62%) React
4 5 (5.62%) WebSockets
5 4 (4.49%) LDAP
6 3 (3.37%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.84%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.74%) Clustering
2 6 (6.74%) PKI
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.37%) CCTV
5 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.37%) SCADA
5 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.25%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.25%) Solar Panel
6 2 (2.25%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Windows
2 2 (2.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.47%) CI/CD
1 20 (22.47%) DevOps
2 18 (20.22%) Network Design
3 17 (19.10%) Agile
3 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (17.98%) Computer Science
5 15 (16.85%) Load Balancing
6 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (12.36%) High Availability
8 10 (11.24%) Critical Thinking
9 9 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (8.99%) Software Engineering
11 7 (7.87%) Migration
11 7 (7.87%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.87%) Service Management
11 7 (7.87%) Visualisation
11 7 (7.87%) Waterfall
11 7 (7.87%) XML Parsing
12 6 (6.74%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (6.74%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.24%) Python
2 10 (11.24%) SQL
3 6 (6.74%) C#
3 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.37%) Bicep
5 2 (2.25%) Java
6 1 (1.12%) C
6 1 (1.12%) C++
6 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.35%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (14.61%) CCNA
3 13 (14.61%) Degree
4 10 (11.24%) CCNP
5 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (6.74%) CCIE
6 6 (6.74%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.49%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.49%) VCAP
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.37%) JNCIA
8 3 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.12%) PMP
9 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
1 2 (2.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (26.97%) Active Directory
2 21 (23.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.36%) VMware NSX
4 10 (11.24%) Hyper-V
4 10 (11.24%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (6.74%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.49%) NFS
7 3 (3.37%) Docker
8 2 (2.25%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Terraform
2 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.87%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.37%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.25%) Ansible
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.25%) SCCM
6 2 (2.25%) SCOM
6 2 (2.25%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (50.56%) Cisco
2 29 (32.58%) Microsoft
3 24 (26.97%) Juniper
4 21 (23.60%) VMware
5 10 (11.24%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.11%) Databricks
7 8 (8.99%) SolarWinds
8 6 (6.74%) Atlassian
9 5 (5.62%) Confluent
10 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
11 3 (3.37%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.37%) Dell
11 3 (3.37%) F5
11 3 (3.37%) HP
11 3 (3.37%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (3.37%) New Relic
12 2 (2.25%) Avaya
12 2 (2.25%) EMC
12 2 (2.25%) Forcepoint
12 2 (2.25%) Wyse