Network Virtualisation Contracts in England

Network Virtualization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 428 460
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +146
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 77 97 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 98
10th Percentile £478 £506 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £675
90th Percentile £681 £675 £788
UK median daily rate £556 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +13.18% -4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £63.03
25th Percentile - - £64.19
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year - -64.61% -11.80%
75th Percentile - - £69.19
90th Percentile - - £69.68
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £67.25
% change year-on-year - -64.61% -11.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 4 August 2025.

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 4 August 2025. 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 +7 30 £588 -0.84% 20
South West +25 21 £625 -1.34% 1
South East +17 13 £500 -20.00% 12
Midlands -22 6 £450 -29.13% 3
Yorkshire -1 5 £538 -14.85% 3
North of England -23 5 £538 -16.05% 6
East of England +7 4 £550 +4.76% 5
West Midlands -21 3 £425 -33.07% 3
East Midlands - 3 £450 -
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 15 (19.48%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) Azure
2 8 (10.39%) Azure AKS
3 7 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.49%) AWS
5 5 (6.49%) GitHub
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.19%) IaaS
6 4 (5.19%) PaaS
7 3 (3.90%) Azure App Service
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.60%) GCP
8 2 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (45.45%) Firewall
2 19 (24.68%) BGP
2 19 (24.68%) VPN
3 16 (20.78%) MPLS
4 13 (16.88%) DNS
4 13 (16.88%) WAN
5 10 (12.99%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (12.99%) IPsec
5 10 (12.99%) VSAN
6 9 (11.69%) Network Security
6 9 (11.69%) OSPF
7 7 (9.09%) Unified Communications
8 6 (7.79%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (7.79%) LAN
8 6 (7.79%) VXLAN
9 5 (6.49%) DMVPN
10 4 (5.19%) PSTN
11 3 (3.90%) 4G
11 3 (3.90%) ISDN
11 3 (3.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (19.48%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) French Language
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Network Engineer
2 12 (15.58%) Architect
3 11 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Network Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Installations Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Switch Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Telephony Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) VMware Specialist
8 2 (2.60%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) NETCONF
2 7 (9.09%) Flash
2 7 (9.09%) RESTCONF
3 6 (7.79%) Kafka
4 5 (6.49%) Spine.js
5 3 (3.90%) REST
6 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.30%) eBPF
7 1 (1.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Data Centre
2 9 (11.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (9.09%) Clustering
3 7 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.09%) PKI
4 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.49%) Replication
5 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.90%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
1 9 (11.69%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) VMS
3 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Validation
2 20 (25.97%) Service Management
2 20 (25.97%) System Testing
3 18 (23.38%) NsoIT
4 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (19.48%) High Availability
5 14 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
5 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Agile
6 13 (16.88%) Migration
7 11 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 11 (14.29%) DevOps
7 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (11.69%) Network Architecture
10 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (10.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) Python
2 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.49%) Bicep
4 3 (3.90%) SQL
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 36 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 31 (40.26%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 20 (25.97%) CCNP
5 19 (24.68%) Degree
6 16 (20.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (11.69%) CCNA
7 9 (11.69%) DV Cleared
8 7 (9.09%) Master's Degree
9 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
10 4 (5.19%) CCIE
10 4 (5.19%) VCAP
11 3 (3.90%) CISSP
11 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (3.90%) JNCIE
11 3 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.30%) AAT
12 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) GDPR
1 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.30%) GAAP
2 1 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.30%) IFRS
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (49.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (29.87%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (25.97%) VMware NSX
4 13 (16.88%) vSphere
5 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
5 6 (7.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (32.47%) vCenter Server
2 22 (28.57%) Terraform
3 21 (27.27%) Ansible
4 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.49%) PowerCLI
5 5 (6.49%) VxRail
6 2 (2.60%) Istio
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.30%) Nessus
7 1 (1.30%) SCCM
7 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.30%) vRealize
7 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (49.35%) VMware
2 33 (42.86%) Cisco
3 14 (18.18%) Atlassian
4 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
5 10 (12.99%) Juniper
6 9 (11.69%) F5
7 8 (10.39%) Palo Alto
8 5 (6.49%) Dell
9 4 (5.19%) NetScout
10 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.60%) Aruba
11 2 (2.60%) Google
11 2 (2.60%) NetApp
12 1 (1.30%) Arista
12 1 (1.30%) Databricks
12 1 (1.30%) Meraki
12 1 (1.30%) Riverbed
12 1 (1.30%) Veeam
12 1 (1.30%) Wind River
12 1 (1.30%) Zscaler