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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 117 135
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.20% 0.081%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 1.99% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £498 £714 -
25th Percentile £513 £717 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £728 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% +53.16% -1.04%
75th Percentile £638 £736 £513
90th Percentile £653 £737 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £728 £475
% change year-on-year -20.96% +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 154 201 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.39% 9.96% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 129 159
10th Percentile £322 £275 £278
25th Percentile £419 £458 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +2.73% -5.09%
75th Percentile £661 £640 £603
90th Percentile £738 £730 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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
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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco