VXLAN Contracts in London

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 377 441
Rank change year-on-year +26 +64 +122
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 21 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 0.91% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 24
10th Percentile £431 - £479
25th Percentile £472 £350 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £545
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -26.61% +3.81%
75th Percentile £594 £513 £601
90th Percentile £655 £535 £658
England median daily rate £550 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -6.00% -4.76%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £38.75 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,376 1,535 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.17% 9.47% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,021 1,730
10th Percentile £287 £250 £252
25th Percentile £400 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £619 £665
90th Percentile £716 £703 £750
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 39
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.24 £18.46
25th Percentile - £20.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -34.87% +40.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £68.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £65.00 £80.60
England median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in London

VXLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VXLAN in London

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in London

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Central London +4 5 £525 - 1
East London - 2 £613 -
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (85.71%) BGP
1 18 (85.71%) Ethernet VPN
2 15 (71.43%) OSPF
3 12 (57.14%) Multicast
4 10 (47.62%) MPLS
5 9 (42.86%) Firewall
6 8 (38.10%) WAN
7 6 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (28.57%) LAN
7 6 (28.57%) NX-OS
8 5 (23.81%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (23.81%) VPN
9 4 (19.05%) IGMP
9 4 (19.05%) IOS XR
9 4 (19.05%) Junos
10 3 (14.29%) Network Security
11 2 (9.52%) IPsec
11 2 (9.52%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
11 2 (9.52%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Network Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) WAN Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Jinja
2 1 (4.76%) eBPF
2 1 (4.76%) gRPC
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (85.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
3 4 (19.05%) Network Design
3 4 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (14.29%) Change Control
4 3 (14.29%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 3 (14.29%) Observability
4 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (9.52%) Runbook
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CCIE
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) JNCIA
3 2 (9.52%) JNCIE
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Firmware
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) HAProxy
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Arista
1 15 (71.43%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (23.81%) Juniper
4 4 (19.05%) F5
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.76%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Wind River