Network Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 841 870
Rank change year-on-year +135 +29 -177
Permanent jobs citing Network Virtualisation 188 144 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 162 95 158
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,999 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £98,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Virtualisation in the UK

Network Virtualisation
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +155 160 £62,500 -10.71% 42
UK excluding London +89 139 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Work from Home +97 68 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Midlands +40 49 £65,000 -13.33% 8
West Midlands +64 44 £65,000 -13.33% 7
South East +44 37 £62,500 -27.54% 7
London +134 33 £72,500 +3.57% 23
North of England +48 23 £60,000 +41.70%
Scotland -49 14 £50,000 -4.76% 5
North West +21 13 £65,000 +35.42%
South West -8 10 £55,000 +71.88% 7
Yorkshire +83 7 £60,000 +41.70%
East Midlands -13 5 £60,000 +4.35% 1
East of England +28 3 £51,250 +5.13% 1
Wales +9 3 £40,000 -11.11% 1
North East -3 3 £44,000 -

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 7 (3.72%) IIS
2 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.13%) CMS
4 3 (1.60%) Confluence
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 152 (80.85%) Azure
2 63 (33.51%) IaaS
3 49 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (23.94%) PaaS
5 44 (23.40%) AWS
6 24 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (12.23%) GCP
8 21 (11.17%) Entra ID
9 20 (10.64%) Nutanix
10 16 (8.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (6.91%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (5.85%) Azure Functions
13 11 (5.85%) SaaS
13 11 (5.85%) Serverless
14 9 (4.79%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 75 (39.89%) Firewall
2 59 (31.38%) VPN
3 43 (22.87%) DNS
4 41 (21.81%) WAN
5 40 (21.28%) Network Security
6 26 (13.83%) LAN
7 23 (12.23%) SD-WAN
8 19 (10.11%) TCP/IP
9 17 (9.04%) BGP
10 16 (8.51%) WLAN
11 15 (7.98%) OSPF
12 14 (7.45%) NGFW
12 14 (7.45%) VoIP
12 14 (7.45%) Wireless
13 12 (6.38%) EIGRP
13 12 (6.38%) MPLS
14 11 (5.85%) VLAN
15 10 (5.32%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (4.26%) DHCP
16 8 (4.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.19%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.66%) Redis
5 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) MySQL
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.32%) Git
2 4 (2.13%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.49%) Finance
3 29 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.85%) Retail
6 7 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.66%) Games
7 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.60%) Electronics
9 3 (1.60%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (28.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 40 (21.28%) Senior
3 32 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (14.36%) Network Engineer
5 26 (13.83%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (12.77%) Architect
6 24 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (11.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (10.64%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (10.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 18 (9.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (9.04%) Analyst
11 14 (7.45%) Citrix Architect
11 14 (7.45%) DevOps Architect
12 10 (5.32%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) Network Analyst
13 9 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
14 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.72%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) ARM Templates
2 16 (8.51%) JSON
3 15 (7.98%) YAML
4 9 (4.79%) .NET
5 4 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.13%) Next.js
5 4 (2.13%) Node.js
5 4 (2.13%) React
5 4 (2.13%) REST
5 4 (2.13%) RESTful
6 3 (1.60%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.06%) LDAP
8 1 (0.53%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Public Cloud
2 27 (14.36%) Data Centre
3 23 (12.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (9.57%) Replication
5 17 (9.04%) IoT
6 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
7 14 (7.45%) Private Cloud
8 9 (4.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (3.72%) FMCG
9 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (3.19%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.13%) PKI
12 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.53%) BYOD
13 1 (0.53%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 60 (31.91%) Windows
2 37 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 33 (17.55%) Linux
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.60%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (58.51%) DevOps
2 62 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (29.26%) CI/CD
3 55 (29.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 44 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (17.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (15.96%) Infrastructure Automation
7 29 (15.43%) Containerisation
8 25 (13.30%) Agile
8 25 (13.30%) Cloud Security
8 25 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (13.30%) ITIL
8 25 (13.30%) Project Delivery
9 24 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (12.23%) Decision-Making
11 22 (11.70%) Network Design
11 22 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (11.17%) High Availability
13 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.11%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.19%) PowerShell
2 51 (27.13%) Bash
3 45 (23.94%) Python
4 29 (15.43%) Bicep
5 16 (8.51%) Perl
6 12 (6.38%) SQL
7 9 (4.79%) C#
8 4 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.60%) Go
9 3 (1.60%) Java
9 3 (1.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (20.21%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (12.77%) CCNA
3 22 (11.70%) CCNP
4 15 (7.98%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.38%) CCIE
6 9 (4.79%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.72%) CCDP
8 7 (3.72%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.66%) Degree
11 3 (1.60%) CCDA
12 2 (1.06%) CCSA
12 2 (1.06%) MCSE
12 2 (1.06%) VCP6
13 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.72%) SLA
4 5 (2.66%) GDPR
5 4 (2.13%) ISO 9000
5 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (34.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (33.51%) Virtual Machines
3 47 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 21 (11.17%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (9.57%) vSphere
6 15 (7.98%) VMware NSX
7 14 (7.45%) Docker
7 14 (7.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (6.38%) Firmware
9 9 (4.79%) Hyper-V
10 5 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.06%) NFS
12 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 64 (34.04%) Terraform
2 35 (18.62%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.57%) Ansible
4 13 (6.91%) FortiGate
4 13 (6.91%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.66%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.66%) Opsview
7 4 (2.13%) PowerCLI
7 4 (2.13%) vRealize
7 4 (2.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.06%) HP SIM
9 2 (1.06%) SCOM
9 2 (1.06%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.06%) WSUS
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (34.04%) VMware
2 53 (28.19%) Cisco
3 50 (26.60%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.11%) Citrix
5 14 (7.45%) NetApp
6 12 (6.38%) Meraki
7 11 (5.85%) CheckPoint
8 10 (5.32%) Google
8 10 (5.32%) Juniper
9 9 (4.79%) Zscaler
10 8 (4.26%) F5
10 8 (4.26%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.72%) Ekahau
12 6 (3.19%) Veeam
13 5 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 4 (2.13%) 3PAR
14 4 (2.13%) Brocade
14 4 (2.13%) HP
14 4 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
15 3 (1.60%) Avaya