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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 284 295
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +160
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 33 41 78
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.39% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 53
10th Percentile £435 £398 £380
25th Percentile £458 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £608 £649 £588
90th Percentile £704 £663 £680
UK median daily rate £518 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -13.75% +11.11% -6.09%
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 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £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 £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -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 14 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 (24.24%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 10 (30.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (24.24%) Entra ID
4 8 (24.24%) OpenShift
5 6 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (15.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (15.15%) PaaS
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) IaaS
7 4 (12.12%) SaaS
7 4 (12.12%) Serverless
8 3 (9.09%) Azure App Service
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Storage
8 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) Firewall
2 11 (33.33%) VPN
3 10 (30.30%) BGP
3 10 (30.30%) WAN
4 8 (24.24%) LAN
4 8 (24.24%) MPLS
5 7 (21.21%) OSPF
5 7 (21.21%) Wireless
6 6 (18.18%) NX-OS
6 6 (18.18%) SNMP
6 6 (18.18%) TACACS
7 4 (12.12%) VXLAN
8 3 (9.09%) DNS
8 3 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
8 3 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (6.06%) 3GPP
9 2 (6.06%) Anycast
9 2 (6.06%) IPv6
9 2 (6.06%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Network Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Designer
3 6 (18.18%) IP Designer
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Network Design Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Data Centre Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (6.06%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) eBPF
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (60.61%) Data Centre
2 14 (42.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (39.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (12.12%) SCADA
5 2 (6.06%) IoT
5 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
5 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.03%) Life Science
6 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.03%) Tandem
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) VMS
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (24.24%) Analytics
2 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
2 8 (24.24%) Incident Response
2 8 (24.24%) Migration
3 7 (21.21%) Cloud Security
4 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 6 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (18.18%) Network Packet Capture
4 6 (18.18%) Password Management
4 6 (18.18%) Validation
4 6 (18.18%) Zero Trust
5 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 4 (12.12%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.09%) Log Analytics
7 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
7 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) Bicep
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) C
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (27.27%) CCIE
3 8 (24.24%) JNCIE
3 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
4 7 (21.21%) AWS Certification
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
6 3 (9.09%) CISSP
6 3 (9.09%) Degree
7 2 (6.06%) CCNP
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.03%) CCIE Security
8 1 (3.03%) CCSP
8 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (45.45%) VMware NSX
3 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (15.15%) Docker
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Terraform
2 11 (33.33%) Ansible
3 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (18.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.03%) Icinga
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Cisco
2 17 (51.52%) VMware
3 8 (24.24%) F5
4 7 (21.21%) Fortinet
4 7 (21.21%) Juniper
5 6 (18.18%) Broadcom
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
7 3 (9.09%) Databricks
8 2 (6.06%) Arista
8 2 (6.06%) Brocade
8 2 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 2 (6.06%) Wind River
9 1 (3.03%) Meraki
9 1 (3.03%) NetScout
9 1 (3.03%) Zscaler