Network Virtualisation Contracts

Network Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 496 558
Rank change year-on-year +54 +62 +101
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 77 104 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 102
10th Percentile £440 £425 £450
25th Percentile £506 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £627 £669 £751
90th Percentile £683 £775 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £62.30
25th Percentile - - £62.38
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile - £36.90 £68.75
90th Percentile - £44.76 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +42 68 £550 +4.76% 65
UK excluding London +40 39 £550 +4.76% 55
Work from Home +46 31 £550 +4.76% 51
London +33 31 £538 -10.42% 19
South West +50 16 £550 -15.38% 10
South East +40 11 £575 +21.05% 15
Midlands +25 5 £500 +26.98% 6
East of England +25 4 £550 +15.79% 4
North of England +20 3 £500 -13.04% 11
Yorkshire +17 3 £500 - 7
West Midlands +15 3 £425 +7.94% 5
Scotland +10 3 £588 +30.56% 4
East Midlands - 2 £575 - 1

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) Azure
2 11 (14.29%) AWS
3 8 (10.39%) Azure AKS
4 5 (6.49%) GitHub
5 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.90%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) IaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) PaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (40.26%) Firewall
2 13 (16.88%) BGP
3 12 (15.58%) OSPF
4 9 (11.69%) Network Security
4 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
4 9 (11.69%) WAN
5 8 (10.39%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (10.39%) LAN
5 8 (10.39%) NX-OS
5 8 (10.39%) VSAN
5 8 (10.39%) VXLAN
6 7 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (9.09%) MPLS
6 7 (9.09%) VPN
7 5 (6.49%) DMVPN
7 5 (6.49%) PSTN
7 5 (6.49%) Wireless
8 3 (3.90%) 4G
8 3 (3.90%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.90%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.30%) Gatling
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) JMeter
3 1 (1.30%) JUnit
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.19%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) Network Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 9 (11.69%) Architect
4 8 (10.39%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Consultant
7 4 (5.19%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Network Consultant
8 3 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Hardware Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Server Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) Flash
2 6 (7.79%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) Spine.js
4 2 (2.60%) OAuth
4 2 (2.60%) OpenID
4 2 (2.60%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) SAML
5 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.30%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.30%) Spring
5 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (12.99%) Cloud Native
3 10 (12.99%) Clustering
4 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.90%) Operational Technology
6 3 (3.90%) Replication
7 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.68%) High Availability
2 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
2 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (22.08%) Agile
3 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (20.78%) Validation
5 15 (19.48%) Service Management
5 15 (19.48%) System Testing
6 14 (18.18%) Migration
6 14 (18.18%) Waterfall
7 13 (16.88%) Computer Science
7 13 (16.88%) DevOps
7 13 (16.88%) NsoIT
8 10 (12.99%) Critical Thinking
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Management
8 10 (12.99%) Power Management
9 9 (11.69%) Configuration Management
9 9 (11.69%) Network Architecture
10 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (10.39%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.68%) Python
2 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.19%) Bash
3 4 (5.19%) Java
3 4 (5.19%) SQL
4 2 (2.60%) Bicep
4 2 (2.60%) C#
4 2 (2.60%) Groovy
4 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.17%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 19 (24.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (22.08%) Degree
6 14 (18.18%) CCNA
7 11 (14.29%) CCNP
8 10 (12.99%) DV Cleared
8 10 (12.99%) Master's Degree
9 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
10 5 (6.49%) CCIE
11 4 (5.19%) VCAP
12 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
13 2 (2.60%) CISSP
13 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (1.30%) ACCA
14 1 (1.30%) JNCIP
14 1 (1.30%) MCSA
14 1 (1.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.60%) GDPR
1 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.30%) GAAP
2 1 (1.30%) IFRS
2 1 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (37.66%) VMware NSX
3 21 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (19.48%) vSphere
5 8 (10.39%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
7 3 (3.90%) Docker
8 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 19 (24.68%) Terraform
3 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 13 (16.88%) Ansible
5 6 (7.79%) FortiGate
6 5 (6.49%) PowerCLI
6 5 (6.49%) VxRail
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (2.60%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.60%) Istio
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.60%) SCCM
9 1 (1.30%) Nessus
9 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.30%) SCOM
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (57.14%) VMware
2 32 (41.56%) Cisco
3 10 (12.99%) Atlassian
3 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.09%) Dell
4 7 (9.09%) Juniper
5 6 (7.79%) Broadcom
6 5 (6.49%) F5
6 5 (6.49%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.19%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.90%) Aruba
8 3 (3.90%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.60%) Google
9 2 (2.60%) Oracle
9 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.60%) Splunk
9 2 (2.60%) Veeam
10 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.30%) NetScout
10 1 (1.30%) SAP