VXLAN Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.44% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £637 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 - -
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £543 - £400

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 123 93 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.52% 16.52% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 60 41
10th Percentile £198 £243 £170
25th Percentile £281 £330 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £445 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +27.14% -9.39%
75th Percentile £591 £488 £538
90th Percentile £699 £575 £665
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £44.35 £13.40
25th Percentile £11.46 £44.88 £13.63
Median hourly rate £17.12 £47.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.57% +235.71% -11.11%
75th Percentile £19.34 £50.38 £18.88
90th Percentile - £51.65 £21.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.34 £30.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -35.53% +114.29% -48.15%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VXLAN

VXLAN
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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) OCI
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Arista
1 3 (75.00%) Aruba
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow