VPLS Contracts in England

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPLS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 654 734
Rank change year-on-year +134 +80 -122
Contract jobs citing VPLS 25 5 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.010% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 0.081% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 27
10th Percentile £400 - £368
25th Percentile £588 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +22.09%
75th Percentile £613 £500 £563
90th Percentile - - £589
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

VPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking 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 communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,034 6,185 7,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 4,069 5,228
10th Percentile £205 £231 £219
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 447 308
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.61
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.41
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in England

VPLS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VPLS in England

VPLS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VPLS in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VPLS in England

VPLS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VPLS in England

VPLS
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 VPLS within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +131 21 £600 +26.32% 1
South East +25 4 £400 -20.00%
VPLS
UK

VPLS
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) IaaS
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (100.00%) MPLS
2 23 (92.00%) BGP
3 20 (80.00%) HSRP
3 20 (80.00%) SNMP
3 20 (80.00%) VRRP
4 19 (76.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 18 (72.00%) IPv4
6 17 (68.00%) RSVP
7 11 (44.00%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (44.00%) IOS XR
8 4 (16.00%) Firewall
8 4 (16.00%) VPN
9 3 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (12.00%) GLBP
9 3 (12.00%) IPsec
9 3 (12.00%) IPv6
9 3 (12.00%) SSL
10 2 (8.00%) Broadband
10 2 (8.00%) L2TP
11 1 (4.00%) PBX
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) IP Expert
2 9 (36.00%) Cisco Expert
3 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Broadband Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (76.00%) JSON
1 19 (76.00%) NETCONF
1 19 (76.00%) XML
1 19 (76.00%) YANG
2 17 (68.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (12.00%) Network Design
3 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (8.00%) Business Case
4 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (4.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.00%) DDoS Mitigation
5 1 (4.00%) Presales
5 1 (4.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (36.00%) CCIE
2 9 (36.00%) CCIE Service Provider
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) Nokia
2 15 (60.00%) Cisco
3 8 (32.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (12.00%) Juniper
5 2 (8.00%) Huawei
5 2 (8.00%) VMware
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft