VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 117 123
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.14% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.46% 2.50% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £499 £411 £714
25th Percentile £550 £418 £717
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £475 £728
Median % change year-on-year +41.05% -34.71% +53.16%
75th Percentile £790 £588 £736
90th Percentile £841 £633 £737
Central London median daily rate £670 £475 £728
% change year-on-year +41.05% -34.71% +49.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 205 160 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.54% 9.29% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 116 131
10th Percentile £283 £263 £350
25th Percentile £381 £387 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +0.09% -0.46%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £730 £722 £758
Central London median daily rate £515 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.89 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.96 £31.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.90% -24.62% -33.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.41 £33.75
90th Percentile £119.20 £57.51 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +155.10% -24.62% -33.33%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the City of London

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the City of London

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) TACACS
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) eBPF
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware