Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Network Virtualization
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
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 - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £504 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +34.27% -46.43% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 849 266 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.12% 95.00% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 171 244
10th Percentile £353 £213 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £694
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile £14.55 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £25.00 £15.23
% change year-on-year -10.94% +64.15% +43.27%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 10 £504 - 3
Network Virtualisation
Yorkshire

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) Incident Management
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