Network Virtualisation Contracts

Network Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 564 651
Rank change year-on-year +70 +87 -97
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 104 155 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 100 127
10th Percentile £425 £450 £400
25th Percentile £466 £500 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £757 £636
90th Percentile £775 £821 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £62.33 £50.75
25th Percentile - £62.44 £53.36
Median hourly rate £23.80 £67.50 £62.99
Median % change year-on-year -64.74% +7.16% -
75th Percentile £36.90 £72.18 £67.70
90th Percentile £44.76 £76.09 £68.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.70 £60.48
% change year-on-year - +30.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +80 89 £525 -8.70% 45
UK excluding London +55 53 £525 -4.55% 31
Work from Home +93 35 £525 -4.55% 11
London +68 33 £600 -17.24% 24
South East +24 14 £475 -20.83% 7
East of England +22 12 £475 -36.67% 1
North of England +39 11 £575 +31.43% 2
South West +10 11 £650 +15.56% 7
North West +21 9 £609 +39.20% 1
Midlands +19 4 £394 -26.74% 9
West Midlands - 4 £394 - 8
Scotland +31 2 £450 -5.26% 6
Yorkshire +20 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 - 1

Network Virtualisation
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 8 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.77%) Confluence
3 6 (5.77%) Tornado
4 2 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.04%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
3 17 (16.35%) Azure Key Vault
4 12 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (9.62%) AWS
5 10 (9.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (6.73%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.73%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.77%) PaaS
9 5 (4.81%) GCP
9 5 (4.81%) IaaS
10 4 (3.85%) Azure App Service
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (36.54%) Firewall
2 32 (30.77%) VPN
3 20 (19.23%) DNS
3 20 (19.23%) Network Security
4 14 (13.46%) 5G
5 13 (12.50%) 4G
6 12 (11.54%) WAN
7 10 (9.62%) TCP/IP
8 9 (8.65%) BGP
8 9 (8.65%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (8.65%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (8.65%) LAN
8 9 (8.65%) MPLS
8 9 (8.65%) SD-WAN
9 8 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (7.69%) HTTP
9 8 (7.69%) OSPF
10 7 (6.73%) Internet
10 7 (6.73%) IPsec
10 7 (6.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
1 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) Big Data
5 1 (0.96%) DB2
5 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Finance
3 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.73%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.77%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.92%) Electronics
7 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Architect
1 21 (20.19%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (18.27%) Network Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Consultant
5 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 8 (7.69%) Network Consultant
5 8 (7.69%) Senior
5 8 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Network Design Specialist
6 7 (6.73%) Network Specialist
6 7 (6.73%) Platform Architect
6 7 (6.73%) Power Platform Architect
6 7 (6.73%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) IP Network Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Network Design Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.50%) JSON
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (6.73%) REST
2 7 (6.73%) XML
3 6 (5.77%) .NET
3 6 (5.77%) Bokeh
3 6 (5.77%) Django
3 6 (5.77%) FastAPI
3 6 (5.77%) Flash
3 6 (5.77%) Flask
3 6 (5.77%) Node.js
3 6 (5.77%) OAuth
3 6 (5.77%) OAuth2
3 6 (5.77%) Pandas
3 6 (5.77%) pytest
4 5 (4.81%) Kafka
4 5 (4.81%) React
4 5 (4.81%) WebSockets
5 4 (3.85%) LDAP
6 3 (2.88%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.04%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.77%) Clustering
2 6 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.77%) PKI
3 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.88%) CCTV
5 3 (2.88%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.88%) SCADA
5 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.92%) Solar Panel
6 2 (1.92%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.08%) Network Design
2 22 (21.15%) CI/CD
2 22 (21.15%) DevOps
3 17 (16.35%) Agile
3 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 15 (14.42%) Load Balancing
6 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (10.58%) High Availability
8 10 (9.62%) Critical Thinking
9 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.69%) Migration
10 8 (7.69%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.73%) Project Delivery
11 7 (6.73%) Service Management
11 7 (6.73%) Visualisation
11 7 (6.73%) Waterfall
11 7 (6.73%) XML Parsing
12 6 (5.77%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.19%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.50%) SQL
3 11 (10.58%) Python
4 6 (5.77%) C#
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.85%) Bicep
6 2 (1.92%) Java
7 1 (0.96%) C
7 1 (0.96%) C++
7 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.04%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (15.38%) CCNP
4 13 (12.50%) CCNA
4 13 (12.50%) Degree
5 12 (11.54%) CCIE
6 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (5.77%) Master's Degree
8 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.85%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.85%) VCAP
10 3 (2.88%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.96%) PMP
11 1 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (25.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (17.31%) VMware NSX
4 13 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (11.54%) Hyper-V
6 6 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.85%) Docker
7 4 (3.85%) NFS
8 2 (1.92%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (12.50%) Terraform
2 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (6.73%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.88%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.92%) Ansible
5 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.92%) SCCM
5 2 (1.92%) SCOM
5 2 (1.92%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.92%) VxRail
6 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (49.04%) Cisco
2 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
3 28 (26.92%) VMware
4 24 (23.08%) Juniper
5 16 (15.38%) Palo Alto
6 10 (9.62%) Databricks
7 8 (7.69%) SolarWinds
8 6 (5.77%) Atlassian
9 5 (4.81%) Confluent
10 4 (3.85%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.88%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.88%) Dell
11 3 (2.88%) F5
11 3 (2.88%) HP
11 3 (2.88%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.88%) New Relic
12 2 (1.92%) Avaya
12 2 (1.92%) Commvault
12 2 (1.92%) EMC
12 2 (1.92%) SAP