Network Virtualisation Contracts in the South West

Network Virtualization
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 146 145
Rank change year-on-year +51 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 16 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 22
10th Percentile £513 - £457
25th Percentile £525 £513 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £594 £725 £664
90th Percentile £688 £775 £748
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the South West

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the South West

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +37 12 £563 +7.14% 3
Dorset - 4 £550 -
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (62.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) BGP
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (31.25%) DMVPN
2 5 (31.25%) OSPF
2 5 (31.25%) VXLAN
3 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (62.50%) Public Sector
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Flash
2 5 (31.25%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Service Management
1 15 (93.75%) System Testing
1 15 (93.75%) Validation
2 13 (81.25%) NsoIT
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (62.50%) Agile
4 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 10 (62.50%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (62.50%) High Availability
4 10 (62.50%) Power Management
4 10 (62.50%) Waterfall
5 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Benchmarking
6 1 (6.25%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (62.50%) CCNA
2 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 10 (62.50%) Master's Degree
3 5 (31.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (68.75%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (68.75%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (93.75%) Cisco
3 10 (62.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) Dell