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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.47% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 - -

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 122 76 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.97% 13.64% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 108
10th Percentile £315 £198 £205
25th Percentile £428 £311 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £617 £494 £608
90th Percentile £688 £539 -
Berkshire median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 12
10th Percentile £16.01 - £79.07
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £87.46
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.33%
75th Percentile £34.12 - £87.53
90th Percentile £52.12 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £24.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +31.79% -70.56% +26.92%

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 15 (100.00%) BGP
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
1 15 (100.00%) OSPF
2 14 (93.33%) BIG-IP
2 14 (93.33%) LAN
2 14 (93.33%) WAN
3 13 (86.67%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (86.67%) DHCP
3 13 (86.67%) DNS
3 13 (86.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (86.67%) Junos
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (6.67%) HSRP
5 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.67%) SIGTRAN
5 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
5 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall Specialist
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Network Specialist
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IP Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Core Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IP Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IP Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Support
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior IP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Clustering
1 13 (86.67%) Data Centre
1 13 (86.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) High Availability
1 13 (86.67%) Identity Access Management
1 13 (86.67%) Load Balancing
1 13 (86.67%) Observability
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) ITSM
3 5 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Availability Management
5 1 (6.67%) Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Network Design
5 1 (6.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (33.33%) JNCIA
3 5 (33.33%) JNCIP
3 5 (33.33%) JNCIS
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
1 15 (100.00%) F5
2 14 (93.33%) Juniper
3 13 (86.67%) SolarWinds
3 13 (86.67%) Splunk
4 12 (80.00%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.67%) Ekahau
6 1 (6.67%) NetScout
6 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto