Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Network Virtualization
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
North West median daily rate £469 - £609
% change year-on-year - - +16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 169 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.94% 85.35% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 75 139
10th Percentile £350 £323 £425
25th Percentile £422 £414 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -2.95% +8.46%
75th Percentile £612 £594 £668
90th Percentile £700 £638 £725
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 67
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.72 -
25th Percentile £14.80 £25.23 £10.95
Median hourly rate £35.55 £30.88 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% +137.54% -76.94%
75th Percentile - £58.91 £46.91
90th Percentile £49.18 £80.87 £58.31
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £24.15
% change year-on-year +69.23% +34.60% -32.93%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 9 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 14 £460 - 2
Network Virtualisation
North West

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Clustering
1 16 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 16 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 16 (100.00%) High Availability
2 11 (68.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (87.50%) MCSA
3 14 (87.50%) MCSE
3 14 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (87.50%) VCAP
3 14 (87.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 16 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 16 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 14 (87.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft