VXLAN Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.24% - 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 216 183 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.98% 11.12% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 110 159
10th Percentile £188 £199 £179
25th Percentile £270 £313 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £434 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -17.38% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £634
90th Percentile £675 £550 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 19
10th Percentile £32.28 - £16.25
25th Percentile £59.74 £21.00 £18.14
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.88 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.87% -13.68% +76.67%
75th Percentile - £29.48 £60.38
90th Percentile - £48.57 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.83% +7.69% +71.05%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in Scotland

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Dundee - 2 £425 - 1
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
Glasgow - 1 £425 -
VXLAN
UK

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (25.00%) IPv4
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam