Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Network Virtualization
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 111 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 4 15 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.71% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.82% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile £214 £509 £425
25th Percentile £273 £548 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £633 £550
Median % change year-on-year -43.68% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £478 £649 £598
90th Percentile £619 £662 £743
England median daily rate £500 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.92%

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 1,951 1,837 2,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.63% 87.06% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,127 1,707
10th Percentile £263 £276 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £715
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 121 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.83 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.64 £48.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the South West

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the South West

Network Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Network Virtualisation

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 20 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
Bristol -7 2 £494 -24.04%
Wiltshire -14 1 £400 -27.27% 1
Devon - 1 £175 -
Network Virtualisation
England

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Icinga
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto