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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 381 441
Rank change year-on-year +47 +60 -37
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 67 49 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 37 42
10th Percentile £480 £450 £400
25th Percentile £513 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.58% +37.06%
75th Percentile £665 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +13.64% -3.51% +20.00%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 East +25 25 £640 +13.27% 6
South West +8 22 £645 +17.27% 4
West Midlands +33 17 £630 - 11
Midlands +25 17 £630 +21.45% 14
North of England +30 16 £625 +66.67%
North West +26 13 £625 +66.67%
Scotland +46 2 £450 -2.70% 5
Yorkshire +15 2 £638 -
East of England +6 2 £525 -
North East - 1 £500 -
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 4 (5.97%) Confluence
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 7 (10.45%) IaaS
4 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.97%) GCP
6 4 (5.97%) SaaS
7 3 (4.48%) PaaS
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.49%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (38.81%) SD-WAN
2 18 (26.87%) Firewall
3 16 (23.88%) WAN
4 13 (19.40%) NX-OS
5 12 (17.91%) VPN
6 10 (14.93%) MPLS
7 8 (11.94%) BGP
7 8 (11.94%) OSPF
8 7 (10.45%) DNS
9 6 (8.96%) LAN
10 5 (7.46%) TCP/IP
10 5 (7.46%) VLAN
11 4 (5.97%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (5.97%) EIGRP
11 4 (5.97%) IPsec
11 4 (5.97%) Value-Added Service
11 4 (5.97%) VSAN
11 4 (5.97%) Wireshark
12 3 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (4.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Git
General
1 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.49%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Architect
2 22 (32.84%) Network Architect
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Network Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Network Specialist
6 5 (7.46%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 3 (4.48%) Administrator
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Specialist
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 2 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) Flash
2 3 (4.48%) EDI
3 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (40.30%) Data Centre
2 13 (19.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) CCTV
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.48%) SCADA
5 2 (2.99%) IVR
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) VMS
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.40%) Network Packet Capture
2 12 (17.91%) Computer Security
2 12 (17.91%) Incident Response
2 12 (17.91%) Password Management
3 11 (16.42%) High Availability
4 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (13.43%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (11.94%) Computer Science
5 8 (11.94%) DevOps
5 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.45%) Analytics
6 7 (10.45%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.96%) Agile
8 5 (7.46%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (7.46%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.46%) Converged Infrastructure
8 5 (7.46%) Network Design
8 5 (7.46%) Service Management
9 4 (5.97%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (5.97%) Power Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.48%) SQL
3 2 (2.99%) Bicep
4 1 (1.49%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (43.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (14.93%) CCNA
5 9 (13.43%) Degree
6 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
7 7 (10.45%) CCNP
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
8 4 (5.97%) CCIE
8 4 (5.97%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
8 4 (5.97%) VCAP
8 4 (5.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.48%) JNCIA
9 3 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 34 (50.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (43.28%) VMware NSX
3 13 (19.40%) vSphere
4 12 (17.91%) Active Directory
5 7 (10.45%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.97%) Hyper-V
7 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.99%) KVM
8 2 (2.99%) QEMU
9 1 (1.49%) Docker
9 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) CSIRT
2 7 (10.45%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (5.97%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (50.75%) VMware
2 32 (47.76%) Cisco
3 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.45%) Juniper
5 5 (7.46%) F5
5 5 (7.46%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.97%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (5.97%) SolarWinds
7 3 (4.48%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.99%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.49%) BMC
9 1 (1.49%) Databricks
9 1 (1.49%) Dell
9 1 (1.49%) Remedy
9 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow