VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 109 150
Rank change year-on-year -23 +41 +31
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 1 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.044% 0.54% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 3.69% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 3
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £425 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £416 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.37% +18.75%
75th Percentile £475 £465 £513
90th Percentile - £509 £528
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -3.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 237 325 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.34% 14.68% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 200 278
10th Percentile £225 £250 £250
25th Percentile £323 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £650
90th Percentile £717 £671 £738
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 71
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £23.59 £38.13 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +18.64% -13.09%
75th Percentile £64.88 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £66.42 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the South West

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

VXLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VXLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VXLAN

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Bristol - 1 £450 - 3
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) VMware