Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 84 119
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 21 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.13% 0.78% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.98% 3.86% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £142 - -
25th Percentile £287 - £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - £690
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.63%
75th Percentile £543 - £710
90th Percentile £566 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £690
% change year-on-year - - +34.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Ethernet VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 233 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.26% 20.26% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 107 248
10th Percentile £264 £288 £205
25th Percentile £368 £395 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +14.71% -16.05%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £650 £629
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% +4.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 18
10th Percentile £16.01 £19.73 £24.85
25th Percentile £18.31 £21.58 £68.63
Median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +168.05%
75th Percentile £61.50 £58.58 £87.53
90th Percentile £83.00 £78.93 -
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £55.00 £56.88
% change year-on-year -23.18% -3.30% +26.39%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in Berkshire

Ethernet VPN
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ethernet VPN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in Berkshire

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Reading -16 9 £520 - 2
Slough - 1 £386 -
Ethernet VPN
South East

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) BGP
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
1 21 (100.00%) OSPF
2 20 (95.24%) BIG-IP
2 20 (95.24%) DHCP
2 20 (95.24%) DNS
2 20 (95.24%) Junos
2 20 (95.24%) LAN
2 20 (95.24%) VXLAN
2 20 (95.24%) WAN
3 15 (71.43%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.76%) Broadband
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) IPsec
4 1 (4.76%) MPLS
4 1 (4.76%) Multicast
4 1 (4.76%) RSVP
4 1 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (19.05%) Military
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall Specialist
1 10 (47.62%) Network Specialist
2 9 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Senior
3 8 (38.10%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IP Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (95.24%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (95.24%) Clustering
2 19 (90.48%) PKI
3 18 (85.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) High Availability
1 20 (95.24%) Identity Access Management
1 20 (95.24%) Load Balancing
2 19 (90.48%) Observability
3 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (42.86%) Availability Management
5 8 (38.10%) ITIL
5 8 (38.10%) Service Management
6 7 (33.33%) ITSM
7 1 (4.76%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (4.76%) Fault Management
7 1 (4.76%) Network Design
7 1 (4.76%) Regression Testing
7 1 (4.76%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.76%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) JNCIA
4 7 (33.33%) JNCIP
4 7 (33.33%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.76%) CCIP
5 1 (4.76%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
1 21 (100.00%) Juniper
2 20 (95.24%) F5
2 20 (95.24%) SolarWinds
2 20 (95.24%) Splunk
3 18 (85.71%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (4.76%) BT
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Fortinet