Ethernet VPN Contracts

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ethernet VPN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 680 807
Rank change year-on-year +122 +127 -137
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 40 39 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.065% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 0.53% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 27
10th Percentile £413 £431 -
25th Percentile £588 £469 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £599 £575
90th Percentile - £658 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £390
% change year-on-year - +21.79% -8.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Ethernet VPN 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ethernet VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet VPN within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +141 37 £600 -0.62% 4
London +120 26 £600 -8.40% 2
UK excluding London +63 12 - - 3
South East +27 11 - -
Work from Home +115 4 £581 +12.05% 1
Scotland +31 1 - - 1

Ethernet VPN
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 13 (32.50%) Apache
1 13 (32.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) AWS
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 37 (92.50%) BGP
1 37 (92.50%) MPLS
2 19 (47.50%) VPLS
3 18 (45.00%) HSRP
3 18 (45.00%) VRRP
4 17 (42.50%) IPv4
4 17 (42.50%) RSVP
4 17 (42.50%) SNMP
5 16 (40.00%) VPN
6 12 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (27.50%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (27.50%) IOS XR
8 6 (15.00%) Firewall
9 4 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (7.50%) IPv6
10 3 (7.50%) OSPF
10 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
11 2 (5.00%) Broadband
11 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 12 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 12 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) GitLab
1 13 (32.50%) JIRA
1 13 (32.50%) Robot Framework
1 13 (32.50%) TestRail
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.50%) Finance
2 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (42.50%) IP Expert
3 10 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Cisco Expert
5 3 (7.50%) Tester
6 2 (5.00%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Network Design Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Broadband Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Core Network Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Network Consultant
7 1 (2.50%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (77.50%) NETCONF
2 30 (75.00%) YANG
3 18 (45.00%) JSON
3 18 (45.00%) XML
4 17 (42.50%) Jinja
5 13 (32.50%) REST
5 13 (32.50%) RESTCONF
5 13 (32.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
1 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) Test Planning
3 14 (35.00%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 13 (32.50%) Integration Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Performance Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Regression Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Scrum
4 13 (32.50%) Security Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
4 13 (32.50%) Unit Testing
4 13 (32.50%) Workflow
5 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.00%) Network Design
7 2 (5.00%) Business Case
7 2 (5.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (5.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (5.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (22.50%) CCIE
2 9 (22.50%) CCIE Service Provider
3 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) CCNP
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Nokia
2 13 (32.50%) Cisco
3 9 (22.50%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.50%) F5
4 5 (12.50%) Juniper
4 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Arista
6 2 (5.00%) Huawei
7 1 (2.50%) Aruba
7 1 (2.50%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.50%) McAfee
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds