Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends in the North West

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 115 130
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.046% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.10% 0.30% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £328 - £486
25th Percentile £369 £475 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £627
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -20.26% -
75th Percentile £544 £525 -
90th Percentile £593 - £629
England median daily rate £525 £458 £600
% change year-on-year +14.75% -23.75% +4.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 363 335 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.30% 15.53% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 176 318
10th Percentile £170 £180 £302
25th Percentile £331 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -9.10% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £625
90th Percentile £677 £606 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -44.40% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +29.27%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in the North West

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN in the North West over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the North West

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Manchester - 3 £450 -
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Ethernet VPN
England

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (50.00%) 802.11
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Deep Packet Inspection
2 1 (25.00%) Escalation Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto