Ethernet VPN Contracts in England

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet VPN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 504 628
Rank change year-on-year +43 +124 +121
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 24 38 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.10% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 0.76% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 11
10th Percentile £391 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £555 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.00% +10.95%
75th Percentile £506 £613 £658
90th Percentile £546 - £738
UK median daily rate £463 £600 £506
% change year-on-year -22.92% +18.52% -3.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Ethernet VPN 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ethernet VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet VPN in England

Ethernet VPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN in England.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet VPN in England

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet VPN in England

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet VPN within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +24 12 £443 -26.25% 6
South East +42 7 £450 - 5
South West - 2 £456 -
North of England - 1 £500 - 6
North West - 1 £500 - 3
Ethernet VPN
UK

Ethernet VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (87.50%) BGP
2 15 (62.50%) OSPF
2 15 (62.50%) VXLAN
3 9 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (29.17%) Firewall
4 7 (29.17%) VPN
5 6 (25.00%) Multicast
6 5 (20.83%) WAN
7 4 (16.67%) Network Security
7 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 4 (16.67%) VLAN
8 3 (12.50%) DNS
8 3 (12.50%) LAN
8 3 (12.50%) NX-OS
8 3 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (8.33%) IPv6
9 2 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (8.33%) VSAN
9 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
1 4 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Consultant
2 7 (29.17%) Network Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Data Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) YAML
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) NETCONF
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) RESTCONF
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) CentOS
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 4 (16.67%) Network Design
4 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (8.33%) Regression Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Runbook
5 2 (8.33%) Scrum
5 2 (8.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) CCNP
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) CCIE
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (8.33%) Ceph
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Argo
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Arista
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.50%) Mellanox
4 3 (12.50%) NVIDIA
4 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) F5
5 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Aruba
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper