Network Virtualisation Contracts in the South East

Network Virtualization
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 160 191
Rank change year-on-year +18 +31 +35
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 16 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.64% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 15
10th Percentile - £416 £525
25th Percentile - £584 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £671 £675
90th Percentile £590 £675 £733
England median daily rate £550 £620 £550
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,175 4,058 5,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.92% 82.72% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,986 2,480 3,387
10th Percentile £250 £255 £260
25th Percentile £400 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 323 240
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.48
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.95% +14.70% +105.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.45 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.63% +58.11%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the South East

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the South East

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the South East

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Berkshire +22 8 £580 - 1
Thames Valley +14 8 £580 - 4
Hampshire +2 5 £500 -20.00% 2
West Sussex - 2 - -
Surrey - 1 - - 3
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) WAN
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) BGP
3 4 (25.00%) LAN
3 4 (25.00%) MPLS
4 3 (18.75%) CATAPAN
4 3 (18.75%) VSAN
5 2 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) SNMP
5 2 (12.50%) TACACS
5 2 (12.50%) Wireless
6 1 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) VPN
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Installations Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) IP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IP Designer
3 2 (12.50%) IP Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) YANG
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Network Design
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
4 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
5 2 (12.50%) Bill of Materials
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) CCIE
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (25.00%) JNCIE
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (12.50%) CISSP
5 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) VCAP
6 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (43.75%) VMware NSX
2 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) vCenter Server
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Juniper
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam