Network Virtualisation Job Trends in Manchester

Network Virtualization
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Network Virtualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 168 141
Rank change year-on-year +34 -27 +98
Permanent jobs citing Network Virtualisation 3 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.13% 0.19% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.23% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £45,250 £58,812
25th Percentile £52,000 £53,125 £61,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £73,474
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% -3.03% +31.20%
75th Percentile £58,000 £87,813 £87,419
90th Percentile - £95,125 -
North West median annual salary £53,750 £65,000 £73,474
% change year-on-year -17.31% -11.53% +33.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Network Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,010 3,108 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.95% 85.22% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,417 1,856
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.99% +8.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Virtualisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Network Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Network Virtualisation
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Network Virtualisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Network Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki