Ethernet VPN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet VPN over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 394 418
Rank change year-on-year +48 +24 +94
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 14 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.019% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.67% 0.12% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £486
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -17.70% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £550 - £499
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,103 3,275 3,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.21% 15.55% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 1,840 2,198
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 371 288
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.93 £47.50 £22.13
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +114.64% -1.64%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £21.11
% change year-on-year -5.56% +113.17% -25.93%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ethernet VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London

Ethernet VPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London

Ethernet VPN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK excluding London

Ethernet VPN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
South East +59 9 £500 - 16
South West - 4 £550 - 9
North West - 3 £550 - 6
North of England - 3 £550 - 14
Wales - 1 £475 - 2
Ethernet VPN
UK

Ethernet VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
1 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) BGP
2 10 (71.43%) OSPF
3 5 (35.71%) SAN
4 4 (28.57%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (28.57%) IPv6
4 4 (28.57%) Network Security
4 4 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (28.57%) TACACS
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) VSAN
4 4 (28.57%) WAN
5 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) Multicast
5 3 (21.43%) VXLAN
6 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
7 1 (7.14%) MPLS
7 1 (7.14%) RIP
7 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTCONF
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Runbook
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Network Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Sequence Diagram
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) CCNP
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CCIE
5 1 (7.14%) CCNA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Ceph
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
3 3 (21.43%) Arista
3 3 (21.43%) Mellanox
3 3 (21.43%) NVIDIA
4 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.14%) F5
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) VMware