Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Network Virtualization
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.41% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £500
75th Percentile £503 - £525
90th Percentile £524 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 414 302 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.49% 89.35% 82.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 169 138
10th Percentile £172 £305 £187
25th Percentile £363 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £580
90th Percentile £588 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 44
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.50 £11.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £15.13 £12.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £16.50 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% +4.90% -56.00%
75th Percentile £68.96 £36.34 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the North East

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £463 - 1
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Icinga
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft