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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 800 870
Rank change year-on-year +92 +70 -159
Permanent jobs citing Network Virtualisation 189 175 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 163 125 166
10th Percentile £43,250 £31,600 £42,250
25th Percentile £51,223 £48,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -4.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +38.89% -3.45%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +82 161 £62,500 -10.00% 43
UK excluding London +24 137 £60,000 -13.60% 32
Work from Home +40 62 £65,000 -6.40% 59
Midlands +38 49 £65,000 -10.34% 7
West Midlands +36 44 £65,000 -13.33% 7
London +98 36 £65,000 -7.14% 19
South East +20 34 £61,250 -15.52% 9
North of England +22 24 £60,000 +36.26% 2
Scotland -49 14 £50,000 -28.00% 4
North West +12 13 £65,000 -6.40% 1
South West -23 10 £55,000 -20.80% 10
Yorkshire +75 7 £60,000 +41.70%
East Midlands -14 5 £60,000 +4.35%
North East -13 4 £38,000 -35.59% 1
Wales +14 3 £40,000 -11.11%
East of England +1 3 £51,250 +45.39% 2

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 (3.70%) IIS
2 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 149 (78.84%) Azure
2 58 (30.69%) IaaS
3 47 (24.87%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (23.28%) AWS
5 43 (22.75%) PaaS
6 23 (12.17%) GCP
7 22 (11.64%) Entra ID
8 21 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (8.99%) Nutanix
10 16 (8.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (6.35%) SaaS
13 11 (5.82%) Azure Functions
13 11 (5.82%) Serverless
14 9 (4.76%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.76%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 79 (41.80%) Firewall
2 59 (31.22%) VPN
3 44 (23.28%) WAN
4 43 (22.75%) Network Security
5 40 (21.16%) DNS
6 29 (15.34%) LAN
7 25 (13.23%) SD-WAN
8 20 (10.58%) BGP
9 19 (10.05%) TCP/IP
10 18 (9.52%) OSPF
11 16 (8.47%) WLAN
12 14 (7.41%) MPLS
12 14 (7.41%) VoIP
12 14 (7.41%) Wireless
13 12 (6.35%) EIGRP
14 11 (5.82%) NGFW
14 11 (5.82%) VLAN
15 10 (5.29%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (5.29%) DHCP
16 9 (4.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.17%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.59%) MySQL
6 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.59%) Redis
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) JIRA
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 60 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.34%) Finance
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.41%) Retail
6 9 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.65%) Games
7 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.59%) Electronics
9 3 (1.59%) Law
9 3 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 41 (21.69%) Senior
3 31 (16.40%) Network Engineer
4 30 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (13.23%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (10.58%) Architect
9 17 (8.99%) Analyst
9 17 (8.99%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (8.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 15 (7.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Citrix Architect
11 11 (5.82%) DevOps Architect
12 10 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (4.76%) Lead
13 9 (4.76%) Network Analyst
13 9 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
14 8 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.76%) ARM Templates
2 13 (6.88%) JSON
3 12 (6.35%) YAML
4 7 (3.70%) .NET
5 3 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (1.06%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.06%) Bazel
6 2 (1.06%) LDAP
6 2 (1.06%) Next.js
6 2 (1.06%) Node.js
6 2 (1.06%) React
6 2 (1.06%) REST
6 2 (1.06%) RESTful
7 1 (0.53%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 27 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 25 (13.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (9.52%) Replication
5 15 (7.94%) Cloud Native
6 14 (7.41%) IoT
7 11 (5.82%) Private Cloud
8 9 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (3.70%) FMCG
11 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (3.17%) Driving Licence
12 4 (2.12%) PKI
13 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.53%) CCTV
14 1 (0.53%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 57 (30.16%) Windows
2 37 (19.58%) Linux
2 37 (19.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.59%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.59%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.50%) DevOps
2 63 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 52 (27.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 27 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 26 (13.76%) Cloud Security
9 25 (13.23%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (13.23%) Project Delivery
10 24 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (11.64%) Agile
11 22 (11.64%) ITIL
12 21 (11.11%) Decision-Making
12 21 (11.11%) High Availability
13 20 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.05%) Network Design
14 19 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 47 (24.87%) Bash
3 41 (21.69%) Python
4 29 (15.34%) Bicep
5 13 (6.88%) Perl
6 12 (6.35%) SQL
7 7 (3.70%) C#
7 7 (3.70%) Go
8 4 (2.12%) C
8 4 (2.12%) C++
8 4 (2.12%) Rust
9 3 (1.59%) Java
9 3 (1.59%) Ruby
10 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (14.29%) CCNA
3 26 (13.76%) CCNP
4 15 (7.94%) Security Cleared
5 13 (6.88%) CCIE
6 9 (4.76%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 8 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (3.70%) CCDP
8 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.65%) Degree
11 3 (1.59%) 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 16 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.29%) SLA
4 5 (2.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.59%) PMO
6 2 (1.06%) ISO 9000
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (34.39%) Virtual Machines
2 58 (30.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (23.81%) Active Directory
4 18 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (7.94%) VMware NSX
5 15 (7.94%) vSphere
6 14 (7.41%) Docker
7 12 (6.35%) Firmware
8 11 (5.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (4.76%) Hyper-V
10 7 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.12%) Ceph
12 2 (1.06%) NFS
13 1 (0.53%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 65 (34.39%) Terraform
2 37 (19.58%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.64%) Ansible
4 13 (6.88%) FortiGate
4 13 (6.88%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.65%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.65%) Opsview
7 4 (2.12%) Knative
7 4 (2.12%) PowerCLI
7 4 (2.12%) vRealize
7 4 (2.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.59%) 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 58 (30.69%) VMware
2 57 (30.16%) Cisco
3 51 (26.98%) Microsoft
4 16 (8.47%) Citrix
5 14 (7.41%) NetApp
6 13 (6.88%) CheckPoint
7 12 (6.35%) Meraki
8 10 (5.29%) Google
8 10 (5.29%) Juniper
9 9 (4.76%) F5
9 9 (4.76%) Palo Alto
9 9 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 7 (3.70%) Ekahau
11 6 (3.17%) Veeam
12 5 (2.65%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.12%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.12%) Brocade
13 4 (2.12%) HP
13 4 (2.12%) Nimble Storage
14 3 (1.59%) Avaya