Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Network Virtualization
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £408 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £458 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +25.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 409 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.04% 95.34% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 266 300
10th Percentile £313 £298 £311
25th Percentile £368 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £561
90th Percentile £653 £639 £625
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 32
10th Percentile £13.88 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.44 £24.18 £16.41
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +29.30% +8.57%
75th Percentile £43.00 £77.50 £38.50
90th Percentile £85.80 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year +40.63% +34.14% -36.39%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft