VXLAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VXLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VXLAN over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 398 419
Rank change year-on-year +72 +21 +63
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 13 1 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.005% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.029% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 19
10th Percentile £421 - £411
25th Percentile £463 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £486
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -17.70% +0.73%
75th Percentile £688 - £499
90th Percentile - - £533
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +7.89% -4.52% -5.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VXLAN in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VXLAN in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 West - 9 £575 -
South East - 3 £425 - 4
Wales - 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £500 - 8
North West - 1 £500 - 3
VXLAN
UK

VXLAN
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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 11 (84.62%) OSPF
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (53.85%) DMVPN
4 4 (30.77%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (15.38%) DHCP
5 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
5 2 (15.38%) LAN
5 2 (15.38%) WAN
5 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (15.38%) Wireless
6 1 (7.69%) DNS
6 1 (7.69%) NGN
6 1 (7.69%) RIP
6 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.69%) VLAN
6 1 (7.69%) VoIP
6 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (15.38%) Advertising
1 2 (15.38%) Military
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Network Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Network Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (38.46%) Service Management
2 5 (38.46%) System Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Validation
3 3 (23.08%) NsoIT
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Network Design
5 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) CCNP
3 5 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) Aruba
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Arista
5 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.69%) F5
5 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow