Network Virtualisation Contracts in England

Network Virtualization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 527 600
Rank change year-on-year +84 +73 -62
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 90 120 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 72 102
10th Percentile £463 £450 £400
25th Percentile £510 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +26.67%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £638
90th Percentile £775 £813 £794
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.30 £53.45
25th Percentile - £62.38 £59.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £68.45
90th Percentile - £69.50 £69.23
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
London +54 34 £650 -8.77% 19
South East +28 15 £550 - 8
North of England +35 14 £575 +9.52% 2
North West +37 12 £600 +14.29% 1
South West +2 11 £650 +8.33% 10
East of England +18 8 £475 -36.67% 1
West Midlands +25 4 £394 - 7
Midlands +20 4 £394 -26.74% 7
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Network Virtualisation
UK

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.78%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.67%) Tornado
3 5 (5.56%) Confluence
4 2 (2.22%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) Azure
2 19 (21.11%) Entra ID
3 17 (18.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 13 (14.44%) AWS
5 9 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.78%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (6.67%) GCP
9 5 (5.56%) PaaS
9 5 (5.56%) SaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Azure App Service
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.33%) IaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 33 (36.67%) VPN
2 32 (35.56%) Firewall
3 19 (21.11%) DNS
4 18 (20.00%) WAN
5 16 (17.78%) Network Security
6 14 (15.56%) SD-WAN
7 11 (12.22%) MPLS
7 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
8 10 (11.11%) 5G
9 9 (10.00%) 4G
9 9 (10.00%) BGP
9 9 (10.00%) LAN
9 9 (10.00%) OSPF
10 8 (8.89%) HTTP
11 7 (7.78%) Internet
11 7 (7.78%) IPsec
12 6 (6.67%) VLAN
12 6 (6.67%) VSAN
13 5 (5.56%) Wireless
14 4 (4.44%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) Power BI
3 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) DB2
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.67%) Banking
7 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.22%) Electronics
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Architect
2 19 (21.11%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (18.89%) Network Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Network Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Network Specialist
6 7 (7.78%) Platform Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Power Platform Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Network Design Specialist
8 5 (5.56%) Systems Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Design Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Developer
9 4 (4.44%) IP Network Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Network Design Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) JSON
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (7.78%) REST
2 7 (7.78%) XML
3 6 (6.67%) .NET
3 6 (6.67%) Bokeh
3 6 (6.67%) Django
3 6 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 6 (6.67%) Flask
3 6 (6.67%) Node.js
3 6 (6.67%) OAuth
3 6 (6.67%) OAuth2
3 6 (6.67%) Pandas
3 6 (6.67%) pytest
4 5 (5.56%) Flash
4 5 (5.56%) Kafka
4 5 (5.56%) React
4 5 (5.56%) WebSockets
5 4 (4.44%) LDAP
6 3 (3.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.67%) PKI
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.33%) CCTV
5 3 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.33%) SCADA
5 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.22%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.22%) IVR
6 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.22%) Solar Panel
6 2 (2.22%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) CI/CD
1 21 (23.33%) DevOps
2 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (17.78%) Agile
3 16 (17.78%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.56%) Network Design
5 13 (14.44%) High Availability
6 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (12.22%) Load Balancing
8 10 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
9 9 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
9 9 (10.00%) Migration
10 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
11 7 (7.78%) Analytics
11 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.78%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.78%) Visualisation
11 7 (7.78%) XML Parsing
12 6 (6.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.33%) SQL
3 10 (11.11%) Python
4 6 (6.67%) C#
4 6 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.44%) Bicep
6 2 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) C++
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 12 (13.33%) CCNA
5 11 (12.22%) CCNP
6 7 (7.78%) CCIE
7 6 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 5 (5.56%) VCAP
9 4 (4.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.33%) JNCIA
10 3 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.11%) PMP
11 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) QA
1 2 (2.22%) SLA
2 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (14.44%) VMware NSX
4 11 (12.22%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (11.11%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.44%) NFS
8 3 (3.33%) Docker
9 2 (2.22%) BitLocker
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Terraform
2 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.22%) Ansible
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.22%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.22%) SCCM
6 2 (2.22%) SCOM
6 2 (2.22%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (42.22%) Cisco
2 31 (34.44%) Microsoft
3 20 (22.22%) VMware
4 18 (20.00%) Juniper
5 10 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.00%) Databricks
6 9 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 6 (6.67%) F5
8 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
8 5 (5.56%) Confluent
9 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
9 4 (4.44%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (3.33%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.33%) Dell
10 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.33%) HP
10 3 (3.33%) New Relic
11 2 (2.22%) Avaya
11 2 (2.22%) Commvault
11 2 (2.22%) EMC