Network Virtualisation Contracts in the Midlands

Network Virtualization
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 106 129 159
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +42
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £278 £458
25th Percentile £413 £320 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £394 £538
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -26.74% -8.51%
75th Percentile £606 £470 £569
90th Percentile £639 £514 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the Midlands

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the Midlands

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the Midlands

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +13 3 £425 +7.94% 7
East Midlands - 2 £575 - 3
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Conversion
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Network Packet Capture
3 1 (20.00%) Password Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AAT
2 1 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GAAP
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware