Network Virtualisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualization
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 135 146 155
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 5 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.17% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £483 £501
25th Percentile £513 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £538 - £663
90th Percentile - - £700
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -2 5 £525 +2.44% 1
Network Virtualisation
South East

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) CCTV
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow