Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Network Virtualization
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 80 93
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.23% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £506 - £418
25th Percentile £516 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.29%
75th Percentile £556 - £647
90th Percentile £563 - £665
North West median daily rate £460 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +31.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,359 861 1,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.88% 91.21% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 607 951
10th Percentile £313 £309 £313
25th Percentile £389 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £677 £688
North West median daily rate £459 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 34 72
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.95 £12.41
25th Percentile £25.99 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -30.67%
75th Percentile £75.75 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £74.63 £72.44
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.88 £23.48
% change year-on-year +42.60% +35.80% -37.06%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) vMotion
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware