Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.99% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £607 - -
25th Percentile £618 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 - -
75th Percentile £715 - -
90th Percentile £717 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £674 - £400

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 122 120 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.38% 20.20% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 73 37
10th Percentile £185 £243 £165
25th Percentile £250 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £440 £380
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +15.79% -1.30%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £550
90th Percentile £691 £575 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £44.35 £25.13
25th Percentile £11.46 £44.88 £30.94
Median hourly rate £14.52 £47.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.11% +13.94% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.51 £50.38 £50.94
90th Percentile £19.01 £51.65 £56.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +27.27%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) OCI
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) BGP
1 7 (77.78%) VXLAN
2 5 (55.56%) NX-OS
3 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) OSPF
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 3 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (33.33%) WLAN
5 2 (22.22%) TACACS
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (11.11%) DWDM
6 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
6 1 (11.11%) HSRP
6 1 (11.11%) SONET
6 1 (11.11%) VRRP
6 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Automation Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) GitOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 3 (33.33%) Network Design
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
2 1 (11.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) F5
2 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Arista
3 3 (33.33%) Aruba
3 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Infoblox