VXLAN Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 15 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.63% - 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.34% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £186 - £491
25th Percentile £396 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £548 - £498
90th Percentile £568 - £499
South East median daily rate £544 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 346 323 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.62% 19.33% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 154 370
10th Percentile £219 £233 £205
25th Percentile £303 £389 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +0.53% -7.09%
75th Percentile £560 £596 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 47
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.12 £16.70
25th Percentile £23.02 £20.04 £23.07
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.83 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.91% -54.04% +41.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.37 £83.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £24.14 £87.53
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -22.05% +9.75% +26.56%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VXLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the Thames Valley

VXLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VXLAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VXLAN in the Thames Valley

VXLAN
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Berkshire - 12 £313 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £525 -
VXLAN
South East

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (20.00%) IaaS
1 3 (20.00%) PaaS
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) BGP
1 15 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (86.67%) Firewall
2 13 (86.67%) OSPF
2 13 (86.67%) WAN
3 12 (80.00%) BIG-IP
3 12 (80.00%) DHCP
3 12 (80.00%) DNS
3 12 (80.00%) Junos
3 12 (80.00%) LAN
4 10 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (13.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (6.67%) IPv6
7 1 (6.67%) Multicast
7 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.67%) SNMP
7 1 (6.67%) VoIP
7 1 (6.67%) VPN
7 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (26.67%) Military
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall Specialist
2 5 (33.33%) Network Specialist
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Support
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Data Centre
2 12 (80.00%) Clustering
3 11 (73.33%) PKI
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Load Balancing
2 12 (80.00%) High Availability
2 12 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (73.33%) Observability
4 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Availability Management
6 5 (33.33%) ITIL
6 5 (33.33%) Service Management
7 4 (26.67%) ITSM
8 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (13.33%) Use Case
9 1 (6.67%) Analytics
9 1 (6.67%) Behavioural Analytics
9 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
9 1 (6.67%) Cyber Resilience
9 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
9 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
9 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
9 1 (6.67%) SOAR
9 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (26.67%) JNCIA
4 4 (26.67%) JNCIP
4 4 (26.67%) JNCIS
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) CCDA
6 1 (6.67%) CCDP
6 1 (6.67%) CCIE
6 1 (6.67%) CCIP
6 1 (6.67%) CCNA
6 1 (6.67%) CCNP
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) vCloud
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) CASB
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (86.67%) Juniper
2 13 (86.67%) SolarWinds
3 12 (80.00%) F5
3 12 (80.00%) Splunk
4 10 (66.67%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (20.00%) VMware
6 1 (6.67%) Arista
6 1 (6.67%) Aruba
6 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) Meraki
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.67%) Zscaler