Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% - 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - £400
75th Percentile £637 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
England median daily rate £638 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +27.50% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 368 310 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.77% 12.31% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 183 248
10th Percentile £213 £238 £210
25th Percentile £313 £334 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £537 £553 £606
90th Percentile £633 £638 £725
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 14
10th Percentile £14.19 £13.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.59 £15.13 £12.88
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £18.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +36.80% -20.07%
75th Percentile £70.41 £31.00 £26.15
90th Percentile £74.00 £43.25 -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -39.96% -18.91% -0.23%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet VPN

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
West Midlands - 5 £543 - 6
Ethernet VPN
England

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) OCI
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) OSPF
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (60.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) HSRP
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
4 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Network Design
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Aruba
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds