VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 170 198
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 +56
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.056% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.78% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile £488 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £513 £538 -
90th Percentile - - £494
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 601 767 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.77% 17.99% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 428 644
10th Percentile £204 £242 £205
25th Percentile £325 £389 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.97% +0.12%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £665 £672
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 76
10th Percentile £18.86 £26.40 £15.50
25th Percentile £38.94 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £84.66 £74.38 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.04 £75.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +35.31%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the South East

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Hampshire +2 1 - - 1
Middlesex - 1 £500 -
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) VCAP
1 1 (50.00%) VCDX
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow