Network Virtualisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Virtualization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Network Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 402 520
Rank change year-on-year +88 +118 -117
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 34 74 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 51 75
10th Percentile £463 £463 £405
25th Percentile £466 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £626
90th Percentile £639 £820 £708
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £62.28 £53.45
25th Percentile - £62.31 £55.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £64.75 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.78% +8.82% -
75th Percentile - £67.31 £63.75
90th Percentile - £67.43 £65.55
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £62.99
% change year-on-year -63.38% +3.20% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Network Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Network Virtualisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Virtualisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Virtualisation.

Network Virtualisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Network Virtualisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Virtualisation.

Network Virtualisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.94%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (61.76%) Firewall
2 12 (35.29%) VPN
3 11 (32.35%) Network Security
4 10 (29.41%) 4G
4 10 (29.41%) 5G
5 9 (26.47%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (26.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (11.76%) DNS
7 3 (8.82%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (8.82%) WAN
8 1 (2.94%) BGP
8 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (2.94%) IPv6
8 1 (2.94%) MPLS
8 1 (2.94%) Quagga
8 1 (2.94%) SAN
8 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.94%) VXLAN
8 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Consultant
1 8 (23.53%) Network Consultant
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Network Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior Consultant
3 6 (17.65%) Senior Network Consultant
4 5 (14.71%) Core Network Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Design Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) IP Design Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) IP Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) IP Network Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Mobile Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Network Design Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Network Design Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Network Specialist
5 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) EDI
2 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) YAML
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) CCTV
2 3 (8.82%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.82%) SCADA
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Network Design
2 10 (29.41%) Load Balancing
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (5.88%) Analytics
5 2 (5.88%) Configuration Management
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (2.94%) Change Management
6 1 (2.94%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.94%) Identity Management
6 1 (2.94%) Migration
6 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.94%) Project Management
6 1 (2.94%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (2.94%) Service Management
6 1 (2.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) CCNP
2 9 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (17.65%) CCIE
4 3 (8.82%) CCNA
4 3 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
5 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (29.41%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.88%) Docker
4 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Cisco
2 10 (29.41%) Juniper
2 10 (29.41%) VMware
3 9 (26.47%) Palo Alto
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.88%) Databricks
7 1 (2.94%) BMC
7 1 (2.94%) Remedy
7 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow