Network Virtualisation Contracts in England

Network Virtualization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 531 612
Rank change year-on-year +82 +81 -68
Contract jobs citing Network Virtualisation 88 120 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 71 100
10th Percentile £463 £450 £400
25th Percentile £512 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.51% +26.67%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £638
90th Percentile £775 £813 £801
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.30 £53.45
25th Percentile - £62.38 £59.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £68.45
90th Percentile - £69.50 £69.23
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Network Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Virtualisation in England

Network Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Virtualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +71 33 £650 -8.77% 20
South East +22 16 £550 -2.65% 4
North of England +35 14 £575 +27.78% 3
North West +27 12 £600 +33.33% 1
South West +2 11 £650 +8.33% 9
East of England +13 6 £475 -38.71% 2
West Midlands +29 4 £394 - 9
Midlands +22 4 £394 -26.74% 9
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1
Network Virtualisation
UK

Network Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.82%) Tornado
3 5 (5.68%) Confluence
4 2 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (53.41%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) Entra ID
3 17 (19.32%) Azure Key Vault
4 13 (14.77%) AWS
5 9 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (10.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (7.95%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.95%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (6.82%) GCP
9 5 (5.68%) PaaS
9 5 (5.68%) SaaS
10 3 (3.41%) Azure App Service
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.41%) IaaS
10 3 (3.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (35.23%) Firewall
1 31 (35.23%) VPN
2 19 (21.59%) DNS
2 19 (21.59%) WAN
3 15 (17.05%) SD-WAN
4 14 (15.91%) Network Security
5 11 (12.50%) MPLS
5 11 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 9 (10.23%) BGP
6 9 (10.23%) LAN
6 9 (10.23%) OSPF
7 8 (9.09%) 5G
7 8 (9.09%) HTTP
8 7 (7.95%) 4G
8 7 (7.95%) Internet
8 7 (7.95%) IPsec
9 6 (6.82%) VLAN
10 5 (5.68%) VSAN
10 5 (5.68%) Wireless
11 4 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.95%) Power BI
3 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Big Data
5 1 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Git
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Finance
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.82%) Banking
7 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Electronics
8 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) Architect
2 19 (21.59%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Network Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Network Specialist
6 7 (7.95%) Platform Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Power Platform Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Systems Architect
9 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Network Design Specialist
9 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.77%) JSON
2 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (7.95%) REST
2 7 (7.95%) XML
3 6 (6.82%) .NET
3 6 (6.82%) Bokeh
3 6 (6.82%) Django
3 6 (6.82%) FastAPI
3 6 (6.82%) Flask
3 6 (6.82%) Node.js
3 6 (6.82%) OAuth
3 6 (6.82%) OAuth2
3 6 (6.82%) Pandas
3 6 (6.82%) pytest
4 5 (5.68%) Flash
4 5 (5.68%) Kafka
4 5 (5.68%) React
4 5 (5.68%) WebSockets
5 4 (4.55%) LDAP
6 3 (3.41%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.82%) PKI
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.41%) CCTV
5 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.41%) SCADA
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.27%) IVR
6 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.27%) Solar Panel
6 2 (2.27%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) VMS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
1 21 (23.86%) DevOps
2 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.18%) Agile
3 16 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.91%) High Availability
5 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.64%) Network Design
6 11 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (10.23%) Critical Thinking
7 9 (10.23%) Load Balancing
7 9 (10.23%) Migration
8 8 (9.09%) Analytics
8 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.95%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.95%) XML Parsing
10 6 (6.82%) Converged Infrastructure
10 6 (6.82%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.64%) SQL
3 10 (11.36%) Python
4 6 (6.82%) C#
4 6 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.55%) Bicep
6 2 (2.27%) Java
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.59%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (15.91%) Degree
4 12 (13.64%) CCNA
5 11 (12.50%) CCNP
6 7 (7.95%) CCIE
7 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.68%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.68%) VCAP
7 5 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.55%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.41%) JNCIA
9 3 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.14%) PMP
10 1 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) QA
1 2 (2.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (28.41%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (14.77%) VMware NSX
4 10 (11.36%) Hyper-V
4 10 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.55%) NFS
7 3 (3.41%) Docker
8 2 (2.27%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Terraform
2 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (5.68%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.41%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.27%) Ansible
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.27%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.27%) SCCM
5 2 (2.27%) SCOM
5 2 (2.27%) SCVMM
5 2 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (40.91%) Cisco
2 31 (35.23%) Microsoft
3 20 (22.73%) VMware
4 16 (18.18%) Juniper
5 10 (11.36%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.23%) Databricks
6 9 (10.23%) SolarWinds
7 7 (7.95%) F5
8 5 (5.68%) Atlassian
8 5 (5.68%) Confluent
9 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
9 4 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (3.41%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.41%) Dell
10 3 (3.41%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.41%) HP
10 3 (3.41%) New Relic
11 2 (2.27%) Avaya
11 2 (2.27%) EMC
11 2 (2.27%) Forcepoint