VXLAN Contracts in England

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VXLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VXLAN 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 451 521 616
Rank change year-on-year +70 +95 +105
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 34 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.056% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.07% 0.42% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 19
10th Percentile £425 £350 £411
25th Percentile £426 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £520 £606
90th Percentile £688 £525 £658
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 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%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VXLAN in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VXLAN in England

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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 VXLAN 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 +33 15 £513 +7.89% 9
South West - 9 £575 -
South East - 3 £425 - 4
North of England - 1 £500 - 6
North West - 1 £500 - 2
VXLAN
UK

VXLAN
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 (8.82%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.94%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 26 (76.47%) BGP
2 22 (64.71%) OSPF
3 21 (61.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 15 (44.12%) Ethernet VPN
4 15 (44.12%) Firewall
5 8 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (23.53%) LAN
5 8 (23.53%) Multicast
6 7 (20.59%) DMVPN
6 7 (20.59%) VLAN
6 7 (20.59%) WAN
7 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
7 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (11.76%) VPN
8 3 (8.82%) BIG-IP
8 3 (8.82%) DHCP
8 3 (8.82%) MPLS
8 3 (8.82%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (8.82%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Advertising
5 2 (5.88%) Military
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Network Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Consultant
3 7 (20.59%) Network Consultant
4 6 (17.65%) Senior
5 5 (14.71%) Data Network Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Cisco Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Designer
9 1 (2.94%) Lead
9 1 (2.94%) Lead Consultant
9 1 (2.94%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Network Service Designer
9 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Service Designer
9 1 (2.94%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Spine.js
2 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (64.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Service Management
2 8 (23.53%) Migration
2 8 (23.53%) Network Architecture
3 7 (20.59%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (17.65%) Validation
5 5 (14.71%) Load Balancing
5 5 (14.71%) Network Design
5 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) System Testing
6 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 4 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
7 3 (8.82%) ITIL
7 3 (8.82%) Low Latency
7 3 (8.82%) NsoIT
7 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.88%) Creative Thinking
8 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.88%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (38.24%) CCNP
3 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (14.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (8.82%) CCIE
6 2 (5.88%) CCIE Data Center
6 2 (5.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.76%) vSphere
3 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Cisco
2 11 (32.35%) VMware
3 10 (29.41%) Arista
4 8 (23.53%) Palo Alto
5 5 (14.71%) Aruba
6 4 (11.76%) F5
7 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
7 3 (8.82%) Juniper
7 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.88%) BMC
8 2 (5.88%) IBM
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
8 2 (5.88%) NetScout
8 2 (5.88%) Solace
8 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.88%) TIBCO
9 1 (2.94%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.94%) Mavenir
9 1 (2.94%) Nokia