Network Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 708 821 894
Rank change year-on-year +113 +73 -204
Permanent jobs citing Network Virtualisation 188 149 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 162 100 159
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,999 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -0.71% +17.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,625 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year +2.13% +14.63% -1.04%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +140 160 £62,500 -10.71% 45
UK excluding London +76 138 £60,000 +2.13% 30
Work from Home +78 67 £65,000 -6.40% 11
Midlands +44 49 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands +59 44 £65,000 -13.33% 8
South East +53 36 £62,500 -16.67% 7
London +105 34 £65,000 -7.14% 24
North of England +45 23 £60,000 +41.70% 2
Scotland -55 14 £50,000 -18.00% 6
North West +21 13 £65,000 +10.69% 1
South West +3 10 £55,000 +69.23% 7
Yorkshire +85 7 £60,000 +41.70%
East Midlands -11 5 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Wales +13 3 £40,000 -11.11% 1
East of England +12 3 £51,250 +5.13% 1
North East -9 3 £44,000 - 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 7 (3.72%) IIS
2 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.60%) CMS
3 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 152 (80.85%) Azure
2 62 (32.98%) IaaS
3 49 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (23.94%) PaaS
5 44 (23.40%) AWS
6 24 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (12.23%) GCP
8 21 (11.17%) Entra ID
9 19 (10.11%) Nutanix
10 16 (8.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (7.98%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (6.91%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (5.85%) Azure Functions
14 11 (5.85%) SaaS
14 11 (5.85%) Serverless
15 9 (4.79%) Amazon S3
15 9 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (4.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 77 (40.96%) Firewall
2 60 (31.91%) VPN
3 42 (22.34%) DNS
3 42 (22.34%) WAN
4 41 (21.81%) Network Security
5 27 (14.36%) LAN
6 24 (12.77%) SD-WAN
7 19 (10.11%) BGP
7 19 (10.11%) TCP/IP
8 17 (9.04%) OSPF
9 16 (8.51%) WLAN
10 14 (7.45%) NGFW
10 14 (7.45%) VoIP
10 14 (7.45%) Wireless
11 13 (6.91%) MPLS
12 12 (6.38%) EIGRP
13 11 (5.85%) VLAN
14 10 (5.32%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (4.79%) DHCP
16 8 (4.26%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.19%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.13%) Redis
5 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) MySQL
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.32%) Git
2 4 (2.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.49%) Finance
3 28 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.38%) Retail
6 8 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.66%) Games
7 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.60%) Electronics
9 3 (1.60%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (28.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 39 (20.74%) Senior
3 32 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (15.43%) Network Engineer
5 25 (13.30%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (12.23%) Architect
8 21 (11.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (10.64%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (10.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 17 (9.04%) Analyst
10 17 (9.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (7.45%) Citrix Architect
11 14 (7.45%) DevOps Architect
12 10 (5.32%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.79%) Network Analyst
13 9 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
14 8 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.72%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) ARM Templates
2 16 (8.51%) JSON
3 15 (7.98%) YAML
4 8 (4.26%) .NET
5 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.60%) Next.js
5 3 (1.60%) Node.js
5 3 (1.60%) React
5 3 (1.60%) REST
5 3 (1.60%) RESTful
6 2 (1.06%) LDAP
7 1 (0.53%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Public Cloud
2 29 (15.43%) Data Centre
3 23 (12.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (9.57%) Replication
5 16 (8.51%) IoT
6 15 (7.98%) Cloud Native
7 14 (7.45%) Private Cloud
8 9 (4.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (3.72%) FMCG
9 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (3.19%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.13%) PKI
12 3 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.53%) CCTV
14 1 (0.53%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 59 (31.38%) Windows
2 37 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 33 (17.55%) Linux
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.60%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (57.45%) DevOps
2 62 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (29.26%) CI/CD
4 54 (28.72%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (15.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 28 (14.89%) Containerisation
9 25 (13.30%) Agile
9 25 (13.30%) Cloud Security
9 25 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (13.30%) Project Delivery
10 24 (12.77%) ITIL
10 24 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (11.70%) Decision-Making
11 22 (11.70%) Network Design
12 21 (11.17%) High Availability
12 21 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (9.57%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.66%) PowerShell
2 50 (26.60%) Bash
3 44 (23.40%) Python
4 29 (15.43%) Bicep
5 15 (7.98%) Perl
6 12 (6.38%) SQL
7 8 (4.26%) C#
8 3 (1.60%) Go
8 3 (1.60%) Java
8 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (21.28%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (13.30%) CCNA
3 24 (12.77%) CCNP
4 15 (7.98%) Security Cleared
5 13 (6.91%) CCIE
6 9 (4.79%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.72%) CCDP
8 7 (3.72%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.66%) Degree
11 3 (1.60%) CCDA
12 2 (1.06%) CCSA
12 2 (1.06%) MCSE
12 2 (1.06%) VCP6
13 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.79%) SLA
4 5 (2.66%) GDPR
5 3 (1.60%) ISO 9000
5 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (33.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (32.98%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (24.47%) Active Directory
4 21 (11.17%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (9.57%) vSphere
6 15 (7.98%) VMware NSX
7 14 (7.45%) Docker
7 14 (7.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (6.38%) Firmware
9 9 (4.79%) Hyper-V
10 5 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.06%) NFS
12 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 64 (34.04%) Terraform
2 34 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.57%) Ansible
4 13 (6.91%) FortiGate
4 13 (6.91%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.66%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.66%) Opsview
7 4 (2.13%) PowerCLI
7 4 (2.13%) vRealize
7 4 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.06%) HP SIM
9 2 (1.06%) SCOM
9 2 (1.06%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.06%) WSUS
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (33.51%) VMware
2 55 (29.26%) Cisco
3 50 (26.60%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.11%) Citrix
5 14 (7.45%) NetApp
6 12 (6.38%) CheckPoint
6 12 (6.38%) Meraki
7 10 (5.32%) Google
7 10 (5.32%) Juniper
8 9 (4.79%) F5
8 9 (4.79%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.79%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.72%) Ekahau
10 6 (3.19%) Veeam
11 5 (2.66%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.13%) 3PAR
12 4 (2.13%) Brocade
12 4 (2.13%) HP
12 4 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (1.60%) PagerDuty