VPLS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPLS over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 459 505
Rank change year-on-year +58 +46 -77
Contract jobs citing VPLS 5 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.016% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £365 £470 £338
25th Percentile £388 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £495
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

VPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,544 3,708 4,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.01% 15.03% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,360 2,684
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £335 £350 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £427
Median % change year-on-year - +11.24% +6.75%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £538
90th Percentile £683 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +3.00% +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 350 241
10th Percentile £13.48 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £9.80 £15.25
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.18
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -12.65% -15.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.66 £71.43 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in the UK excluding London

VPLS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VPLS in the UK excluding London

VPLS
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 VPLS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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 +23 4 £400 -20.00%
Scotland - 1 - -
VPLS
UK

VPLS
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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) GLBP
3 3 (60.00%) HSRP
3 3 (60.00%) IPsec
3 3 (60.00%) SNMP
3 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 3 (60.00%) VRRP
4 1 (20.00%) 5G
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (20.00%) PBX
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Nokia
3 1 (20.00%) VMware