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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 530 589
Rank change year-on-year +86 +59 +112
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 36 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.051% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 0.40% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 27
10th Percentile - £350 £443
25th Percentile £425 £400 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £502 £555
90th Percentile £688 £524 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.75 - -

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 3,232 4,810 5,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 12.90% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 2,860 3,887
10th Percentile £235 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 393 395
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.28 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +114.29% -26.32%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +44 17 £450 -5.26% 16
South West - 8 £625 - 3
South East - 4 £463 - 1
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 2 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) GitHub
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 30 (83.33%) BGP
2 25 (69.44%) OSPF
3 21 (58.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 21 (58.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 21 (58.33%) Firewall
4 12 (33.33%) Multicast
5 10 (27.78%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (27.78%) LAN
5 10 (27.78%) WAN
6 7 (19.44%) DMVPN
7 6 (16.67%) VLAN
7 6 (16.67%) VPN
8 5 (13.89%) MPLS
9 4 (11.11%) Junos
9 4 (11.11%) Network Security
9 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
10 3 (8.33%) BIG-IP
10 3 (8.33%) EIGRP
10 3 (8.33%) IGMP
10 3 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 2 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Network Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Consultant
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Data Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Juniper Consultant
7 1 (2.78%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Spine.js
2 1 (2.78%) gRPC
2 1 (2.78%) JSON
2 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (61.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) PKI
2 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 7 (19.44%) Migration
2 7 (19.44%) Service Management
2 7 (19.44%) Validation
3 5 (13.89%) Change Management
3 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
3 5 (13.89%) Network Design
3 5 (13.89%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (13.89%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (13.89%) System Testing
4 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.33%) High Availability
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.33%) Low Latency
4 3 (8.33%) NsoIT
5 2 (5.56%) Change Control
5 2 (5.56%) ITSM
5 2 (5.56%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (33.33%) CCNP
4 5 (13.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (8.33%) CCIE
5 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.78%) CCNA
7 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.78%) JNCIE
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Firmware
3 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.89%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 28 (77.78%) Cisco
2 12 (33.33%) Arista
3 11 (30.56%) VMware
4 9 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 8 (22.22%) F5
6 6 (16.67%) Juniper
7 5 (13.89%) Aruba
8 3 (8.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (5.56%) BMC
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
9 2 (5.56%) NetScout
9 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.78%) Mellanox
10 1 (2.78%) NVIDIA
10 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow