Network Virtualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 296 346 399
Rank change year-on-year +50 +53 +57
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 40 53 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.30% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 54
10th Percentile £487 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £628 £703
90th Percentile £674 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +51 16 £550 -15.38% 15
South East +43 11 £575 +21.05% 31
Midlands +23 5 £500 +26.98% 13
East of England +22 4 £550 +15.79% 8
Scotland +15 4 £550 +22.22% 5
West Midlands +13 3 £425 +7.94% 9
North of England +11 3 £500 -13.04% 20
Yorkshire +10 3 £500 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £575 - 4
Network Virtualisation
UK

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (12.50%) GitHub
3 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) VSAN
3 7 (17.50%) BGP
3 7 (17.50%) OSPF
4 6 (15.00%) Network Security
5 5 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (12.50%) DMVPN
5 5 (12.50%) VXLAN
6 3 (7.50%) WAN
7 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.00%) VPN
8 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.50%) LAN
8 1 (2.50%) NX-OS
8 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (32.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Flash
2 5 (12.50%) Spine.js
3 2 (5.00%) OAuth
3 2 (5.00%) OpenID
3 2 (5.00%) SAML
4 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Clustering
2 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.50%) Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 16 (40.00%) Validation
2 15 (37.50%) Service Management
2 15 (37.50%) System Testing
3 14 (35.00%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) Waterfall
4 13 (32.50%) Computer Science
4 13 (32.50%) High Availability
4 13 (32.50%) NsoIT
5 10 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 10 (25.00%) Power Management
5 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.00%) Migration
7 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) DevOps
8 6 (15.00%) Network Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Bicep
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 18 (45.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (37.50%) Degree
6 10 (25.00%) CCNA
6 10 (25.00%) Master's Degree
7 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
8 7 (17.50%) Azure Certification
9 6 (15.00%) CCNP
10 4 (10.00%) VCAP
11 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
12 2 (5.00%) CISSP
13 1 (2.50%) AAT
13 1 (2.50%) ACCA
13 1 (2.50%) CCIE
13 1 (2.50%) CIMA
13 1 (2.50%) JNCIP
13 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) GAAP
2 1 (2.50%) IFRS
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (55.00%) VMware NSX
3 16 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (20.00%) vSphere
5 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
7 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) vCenter Server
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) PowerCLI
3 5 (12.50%) VxRail
4 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.50%) Nessus
6 1 (2.50%) SCCM
6 1 (2.50%) vRealize
6 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (67.50%) VMware
2 18 (45.00%) Cisco
3 10 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.50%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.50%) Juniper
7 1 (2.50%) SAP
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) Veeam