VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the North West

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 110 132
Rank change year-on-year -26 +22 -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 9 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.53% 2.16% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £479 £486
25th Percentile £413 £484 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £627
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.26% -
75th Percentile £438 £541 -
90th Percentile - £546 £629
England median daily rate £528 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.93% +2.50% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 356 324 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.29% 15.02% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 171 315
10th Percentile £170 £203 £302
25th Percentile £331 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £626
90th Percentile £671 £675 £672
England median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +25.43%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the North West

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Merseyside +1 7 - -
Cheshire -24 1 £425 -19.05%
Manchester - 1 - -
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (88.89%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (88.89%) NX-OS
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless
3 7 (77.78%) DHCP
3 7 (77.78%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
5 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
5 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) OSPF
General
1 7 (77.78%) Banking
1 7 (77.78%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Network Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) RF Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Wireless Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) User Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) Ekahau
2 7 (77.78%) Remedy
2 7 (77.78%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto