VPLS Contracts in London

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring VPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPLS 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 350 370 490
Rank change year-on-year +20 +120 +83
Contract jobs citing VPLS 3 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.12% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 1.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 2
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £650 £588 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £475
90th Percentile - - £483
England median daily rate £700 £600 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% +26.32% -9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

VPLS 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in London

VPLS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VPLS in London.

Daily rate trend for VPLS in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) IGMP
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) Junos
3 1 (33.33%) RIP
3 1 (33.33%) SDH
3 1 (33.33%) SONET
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) WAN Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (66.67%) WAN Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) OPNET
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper