VXLAN Contract Job Trends in Reading

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.46% - 0.088%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.39% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.39%
Berkshire median daily rate £313 - £490
% change year-on-year - - +1.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 118 167 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.59% 21.38% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 67 144
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £333 £400 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £480 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £575
90th Percentile £648 £650 £615
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £72.40 - £72.88
25th Percentile £76.00 - £82.83
Median hourly rate £84.00 - £87.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.57%
75th Percentile £89.88 - -
90th Percentile £92.20 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.33 £21.83 £83.77
% change year-on-year +226.75% -73.94% +49.58%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in Reading

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Junos
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Availability Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) JNCIA
3 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
3 2 (50.00%) JNCIS
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Extreme Networks