Hybrid/Remote Network Virtualisation Contract Job Trends

Network Virtualization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 274 313
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 +148
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 28 42 79
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 54
10th Percentile £450 £400 £383
25th Percentile £461 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £608 £649 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £682
UK median daily rate £510 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -18.40% +13.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Virtualisation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Network Virtualisation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Network Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Virtualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (28.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (17.86%) PaaS
8 4 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) IaaS
8 4 (14.29%) SaaS
8 4 (14.29%) Serverless
9 3 (10.71%) Azure App Service
9 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (10.71%) Azure Storage
9 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) BGP
2 11 (39.29%) VPN
3 10 (35.71%) WAN
4 9 (32.14%) MPLS
5 8 (28.57%) LAN
6 7 (25.00%) OSPF
6 7 (25.00%) Wireless
7 6 (21.43%) SNMP
7 6 (21.43%) TACACS
8 5 (17.86%) VXLAN
9 4 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (10.71%) DNS
10 3 (10.71%) IPv6
10 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
10 3 (10.71%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (7.14%) 3GPP
11 2 (7.14%) NX-OS
11 2 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
11 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Designer
2 6 (21.43%) IP Designer
2 6 (21.43%) Network Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Centre Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Design Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) eBPF
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Data Centre
2 14 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) IoT
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
4 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) SCADA
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) Life Science
5 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.57%) Tandem
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (32.14%) Migration
3 8 (28.57%) Analytics
3 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 6 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (21.43%) Validation
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
7 3 (10.71%) High Availability
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.71%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Bicep
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (32.14%) CCIE
3 8 (28.57%) JNCIE
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 3 (10.71%) CISSP
6 3 (10.71%) Degree
6 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
7 2 (7.14%) CCNP
7 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.57%) CCIE Security
8 1 (3.57%) CCSP
8 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.57%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (39.29%) VMware NSX
3 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (17.86%) Docker
5 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Ansible
3 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) VMware
3 8 (28.57%) F5
4 7 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 7 (25.00%) Juniper
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.71%) Databricks
7 2 (7.14%) Arista
7 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
7 2 (7.14%) Brocade
7 2 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
7 2 (7.14%) Wind River
8 1 (3.57%) Meraki
8 1 (3.57%) NetScout