VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 160 186
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 5 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.17% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.02% 1.30% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - £493 -
25th Percentile £413 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +8.02% -
75th Percentile £438 £544 £557
90th Percentile - £548 £627
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 491 540 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.75% 13.08% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 280 531
10th Percentile £161 £180 £263
25th Percentile £313 £329 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £482
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +1.40% +7.11%
75th Percentile £538 £577 £588
90th Percentile £650 £672 £663
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 21
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £41.25 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -51.52% +133.84% -17.95%
75th Percentile £41.94 £51.23 £26.78
90th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the North of England

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
North West -13 5 £425 -19.05% 7
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 5 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) RF Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Ekahau
2 4 (80.00%) Remedy
2 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow