VXLAN Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.71% - 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.41% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £99 - -
25th Percentile £179 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.82%
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £527 - -
South East median daily rate £544 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -3.41%
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

VXLAN 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 272 270 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.10% 20.80% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 122 274
10th Percentile £255 £252 £205
25th Percentile £325 £393 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £575
90th Percentile £622 £650 £649
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 20
10th Percentile £17.90 £19.12 £24.48
25th Percentile £30.18 £20.04 £67.72
Median hourly rate £71.33 £21.83 £83.77
Median % change year-on-year +226.75% -73.94% +49.58%
75th Percentile £83.00 £23.37 £87.53
90th Percentile £89.10 £24.14 -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -22.05% +9.75% +26.56%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in Berkshire

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in Berkshire

VXLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VXLAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VXLAN in Berkshire

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 February 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 - 4 - - 4
VXLAN
South East

VXLAN
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 12 (100.00%) BGP
1 12 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 12 (100.00%) DHCP
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
1 12 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) Junos
1 12 (100.00%) LAN
1 12 (100.00%) OSPF
1 12 (100.00%) WAN
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco ISE
General
1 4 (33.33%) Military
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall Specialist
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Network Specialist
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Clustering
2 11 (91.67%) PKI
3 10 (83.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) High Availability
1 12 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 12 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (91.67%) Observability
3 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Availability Management
5 5 (41.67%) ITIL
5 5 (41.67%) Service Management
6 4 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (33.33%) JNCIA
4 4 (33.33%) JNCIP
4 4 (33.33%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) F5
1 12 (100.00%) Juniper
1 12 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 12 (100.00%) Splunk
2 10 (83.33%) Extreme Networks