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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 127 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.096% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.37% 1.03% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £418 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £475
75th Percentile £588 - £513
90th Percentile £633 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - £488
% change year-on-year - - -11.36%

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 169 194 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.33% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 113 179
10th Percentile £263 £350 £210
25th Percentile £365 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £527 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -2.50% +2.37%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £632
90th Percentile £737 £757 £695
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing VXLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the City of London

VXLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (50.00%) IGMP
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Multicast
3 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Network Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCIE
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds