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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 145
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +55
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.24% 0.19% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% 1.75% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £411 £714 -
25th Percentile £418 £717 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £728 £475
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +53.16% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £736 £513
90th Percentile £633 £737 -
Central London median daily rate £475 £728 £475
% change year-on-year -34.71% +53.16% -7.77%

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 156 229 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.29% 11.00% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 143 164
10th Percentile £253 £327 £250
25th Percentile £406 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £664 £644 £608
90th Percentile £738 £751 £698
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +2.10% +0.96% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £21.25 - £26.38
25th Percentile £22.86 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £34.75 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -33.33% +134.94%
75th Percentile £52.02 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £60.15 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.63% -33.33% +132.14%

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 27 October 2025.

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:

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