Network Virtualisation Contracts in London

Network Virtualization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 358 427
Rank change year-on-year +36 +69 +74
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 31 33 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 30
10th Percentile £418 £470 £370
25th Percentile £479 £512 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -17.24% +26.09%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £813
90th Percentile £689 £776 £839
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £62.30
25th Percentile - - £62.38
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.38% -2.26%
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -63.38% +3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in London

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in London

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in London

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in London

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -3 2 £700 -6.67% 1
East London - 2 £515 -
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) LAN
2 7 (22.58%) WAN
3 6 (19.35%) MPLS
3 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 6 (19.35%) VPN
4 5 (16.13%) BGP
4 5 (16.13%) OSPF
4 5 (16.13%) PSTN
5 4 (12.90%) Wireless
6 3 (9.68%) 4G
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (9.68%) IPsec
6 3 (9.68%) ISDN
6 3 (9.68%) Network Security
6 3 (9.68%) NGFW
6 3 (9.68%) NX-OS
7 2 (6.45%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (6.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) Gatling
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) JMeter
2 1 (3.23%) JUnit
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Consultant
2 4 (12.90%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Network Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Network Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Telephony Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Telephony Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Data Centre
2 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
4 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Network Design
4 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) High Availability
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
7 3 (9.68%) Customer Service
7 3 (9.68%) Load Balancing
7 3 (9.68%) Network Architecture
7 3 (9.68%) Network Load Balancing
7 3 (9.68%) Network Management
7 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (9.68%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Bash
2 2 (6.45%) Groovy
2 2 (6.45%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) R
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (16.13%) CCNP
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) CCIE
3 4 (12.90%) CCNA
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (22.58%) vSphere
3 5 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Ansible
3 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (6.45%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (6.45%) Istio
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) VMware
2 10 (32.26%) Cisco
3 6 (19.35%) Juniper
4 5 (16.13%) F5
4 5 (16.13%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.68%) Aruba
5 3 (9.68%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.68%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.45%) Dell
6 2 (6.45%) Google
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) Arista
7 1 (3.23%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.23%) NetScout
7 1 (3.23%) Splunk