Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Network Virtualization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 148 120 137
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 9 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.33% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £435 - £268
25th Percentile £453 - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £415
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.95%
75th Percentile £462 - £449
90th Percentile £477 - £465
England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,365 1,867 2,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.82% 88.65% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,115 1,624
10th Percentile £213 £265 £307
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 99 218
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.21 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.52 £29.22
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +7.87% -22.08%
75th Percentile £61.25 £55.59 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.18 £75.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the North West

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cumbria - 9 £458 -
Network Virtualisation
England

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

Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Clustering
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (100.00%) High Availability
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) MCSA
2 8 (88.89%) MCSE
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) VCAP
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft