VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 133 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 11 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.38% 0.19% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.77% 1.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 397 363 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.73% 13.66% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 200 291
10th Percentile £163 £170 £200
25th Percentile £275 £290 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £508 £600 £538
90th Percentile £587 £675 £673
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 30
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.15 £17.40
25th Percentile £22.42 £23.37 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £28.35 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +3.09% +53.98%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.85 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the Midlands

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
West Midlands -19 11 £525 - 5
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) BGP
2 10 (90.91%) DHCP
2 10 (90.91%) DNS
2 10 (90.91%) Wireless
3 8 (72.73%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (54.55%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (54.55%) NX-OS
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 5 (45.45%) IPv4
5 5 (45.45%) IPv6
5 5 (45.45%) LAN
5 5 (45.45%) MPLS
5 5 (45.45%) OSPF
5 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
5 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 5 (45.45%) WLAN
6 4 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (36.36%) EIGRP
6 4 (36.36%) VLAN
6 4 (36.36%) VPN
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) RF Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Wireless Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Network Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Network Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Network Design
3 4 (36.36%) Network Management
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Lisp
2 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) CCNP
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (36.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) CCIE
2 4 (36.36%) CCSP
2 4 (36.36%) CISSP
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 3 (27.27%) CCIE Security
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) JNCIE
4 2 (18.18%) JNCIP
5 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) GDPR
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (45.45%) NIST
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) FortiGate
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) Ekahau
2 6 (54.55%) Remedy
2 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
3 5 (45.45%) F5
3 5 (45.45%) Fortinet
3 5 (45.45%) Meraki
3 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
4 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) Forcepoint
5 2 (18.18%) Juniper