Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Network Virtualization
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.06% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
South East median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Network Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 657 207 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.48% 94.52% 82.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 145 272
10th Percentile £314 £213 £251
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -1.18%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £641 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 29
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.91 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +81.82%
75th Percentile £18.32 £31.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £33.60 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year +99.06% -41.83% -5.00%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Virtualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 8 £560 - 2
Network Virtualisation
South East

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Network Security
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (55.56%) IPsec
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
4 4 (44.44%) BGP
4 4 (44.44%) BIG-IP
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (44.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (44.44%) ICMP
4 4 (44.44%) NGFW
4 4 (44.44%) OSPF
4 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (44.44%) Wireless
5 3 (33.33%) DNS
6 1 (11.11%) DHCP
6 1 (11.11%) SSL
6 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Network Design
5 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 5 (55.56%) F5
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) Becrypt
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds