Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Network Virtualization
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £618 - -
25th Percentile £626 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £630 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 274 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 91.82% 96.48% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 263 130
10th Percentile £364 £310 £355
25th Percentile £415 £358 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% -10.05% -24.07%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £552
90th Percentile £653 £520 £646
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £430 £488
% change year-on-year +10.47% -11.93% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Key Management
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Bicep
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat