Network Virtualisation Contracts in the North of England

Network Virtualization
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Network Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 211 242
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 -67
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.086% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.094% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £455 £344 -
25th Percentile £494 £372 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £647 £497 -
90th Percentile £665 £521 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +24.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Network Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,108 5,304 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.82% 90.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,679 4,645
10th Percentile £287 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 212 263
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% +47.59% -1.29%
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £33.66
90th Percentile £53.85 £65.00 £51.69
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North West +25 9 £609 +39.20% 2
Yorkshire +20 1 - -
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) BGP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) MPLS
1 3 (27.27%) OSPF
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 3 (27.27%) Value-Added Service
1 3 (27.27%) VLAN
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
1 3 (27.27%) Wireshark
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCIE
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) VCAP
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds