Network Virtualisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualization
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 96 140 146
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile £563 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +2.35%
75th Percentile £590 £538 -
90th Percentile £633 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the Thames Valley

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +32 6 £578 +10.00% 15
Network Virtualisation
South East

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) API Management
1 2 (33.33%) Business Case
1 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) RBAC
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Value Proposition
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) VCAP
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam