Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Network Virtualization
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £504 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 796 232 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.76% 95.47% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 144 216
10th Percentile £355 £220 £358
25th Percentile £413 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £708
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £14.44 - -
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
4 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) 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%) 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
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) LLM
3 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (20.00%) KVM
4 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (20.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Alibaba
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk