Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Network Virtualization
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 152 171
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 +52
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 10 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.33% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £434 £376 £377
25th Percentile £458 £395 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £451 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -11.95% +8.47%
75th Percentile £517 £552 £700
90th Percentile £558 £618 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,183 3,073 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.42% 86.83% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,746 2,707
10th Percentile £215 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 150 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.12 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.44 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -8.53% +34.83%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.90 £67.57 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the North of England

Network Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Network Virtualisation

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 22 December 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
Yorkshire -43 5 £550 +12.24%
North West -28 4 £465 +12.63% 2
North East - 1 £400 -
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCSA
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) VCAP
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Argo
3 1 (10.00%) Icinga
3 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat