Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Network Virtualization
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.07% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 580 151 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.64% 93.79% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 115 239
10th Percentile £322 £237 £273
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £595 £588 £586
90th Percentile £638 £647 £690
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 20
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.68 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.69 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -25.69% +68.84%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.92 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +81.82%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (50.00%) IPsec
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (37.50%) ICMP
4 3 (37.50%) NGFW
4 3 (37.50%) OSPF
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (37.50%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (25.00%) Network Design
5 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
2 4 (50.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) Becrypt
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds