Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 113 134
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.027% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 1.57% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £450 -
25th Percentile £637 £488 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +30.95% -
75th Percentile £710 - £446
90th Percentile - - £455
England median daily rate £650 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +30.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Ethernet VPN 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 303 254 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.11% 12.89% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 178 214
10th Percentile £210 £213 £332
25th Percentile £450 £278 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £480 £510
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 5 25
10th Percentile £12.71 £29.67 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.14 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.51% -3.08% +15.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £41.75 £35.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +19.29% -38.97% +1.52%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in the South West

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet VPN within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Bristol -16 1 £674 +49.67% 1
Ethernet VPN
England

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow