VXLAN Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring VXLAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.15% 0.74% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 5.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £438 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.02% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 117 78 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.44% 14.34% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 28 59
10th Percentile £313 £287 £402
25th Percentile £375 £387 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £518 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% -7.59% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £691 £588
90th Percentile £688 £761 £613
North West median daily rate £450 £505 £486
% change year-on-year -10.89% +3.91% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.56 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -16.60%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing VXLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in Cheshire

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. 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
Chester -11 1 £425 -19.05% 3
VXLAN
North West

VXLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ekahau