Ethernet VPN Contract Job Trends

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 500 543
Rank change year-on-year -60 +43 +58
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 100 51 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.99% 1.30% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 28 11
10th Percentile £375 £424 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £566 £531
90th Percentile £738 £600 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £444
% change year-on-year +15.00% +12.68% -8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,031 3,913 4,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.82% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,378 2,892
10th Percentile £250 £242 £222
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 203 315
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -10.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.95 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.00% -2.86%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet VPN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in the UK

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK

Ethernet VPN
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 August 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
England -67 83 £625 +25.00% 20
UK excluding London -57 58 £575 +15.00% 13
Work from Home -48 29 £500 +3.63% 7
North of England -48 24 £575 +4.55% 2
London -70 24 £675 +28.57% 8
South East -49 22 £663 +32.50% 3
North West -28 14 £575 +4.55%
North East - 12 £650 -
Scotland - 9 £375 -
Midlands - 5 £543 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £543 - 6
Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
South West -45 1 £674 +22.45% 2

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.00%) MS Project Server
1 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) AWS
2 29 (29.00%) Azure
3 23 (23.00%) OCI
4 11 (11.00%) SaaS
5 8 (8.00%) GitHub
6 6 (6.00%) Nutanix
7 5 (5.00%) GCP
8 3 (3.00%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (3.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (95.00%) VXLAN
2 83 (83.00%) BGP
3 61 (61.00%) OSPF
4 53 (53.00%) Firewall
5 48 (48.00%) WAN
6 35 (35.00%) BIG-IP
7 28 (28.00%) SD-WAN
8 22 (22.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 16 (16.00%) Network Security
10 15 (15.00%) LAN
10 15 (15.00%) MPLS
10 15 (15.00%) NX-OS
11 14 (14.00%) DHCP
11 14 (14.00%) DNS
11 14 (14.00%) VLAN
11 14 (14.00%) VPN
12 13 (13.00%) Junos
13 12 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (11.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (11.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 27 (27.00%) GitLab
2 16 (16.00%) Git
3 4 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.00%) Law
6 2 (2.00%) Finance
6 2 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) Network Engineer
1 35 (35.00%) Senior
2 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (20.00%) Architect
3 20 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Network Architect
6 11 (11.00%) Data Network Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Firewall Specialist
7 9 (9.00%) Network Specialist
8 8 (8.00%) Consultant
9 7 (7.00%) Network Consultant
10 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Network Security Consultant
11 3 (3.00%) Security Consultant
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Consultant
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Network Consultant
11 3 (3.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) 802.1X
2 9 (9.00%) REST
2 9 (9.00%) YAML
3 8 (8.00%) JSON
4 4 (4.00%) Jinja
5 1 (1.00%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.00%) OpenConfig
5 1 (1.00%) Spine.js
5 1 (1.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 88 (88.00%) Data Centre
2 23 (23.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (13.00%) PKI
4 12 (12.00%) Clustering
5 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Replication
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Windows
2 8 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 39 (39.00%) Load Balancing
2 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 30 (30.00%) High Availability
4 28 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (26.00%) Zero Trust
6 25 (25.00%) Network Design
7 24 (24.00%) Migration
8 21 (21.00%) Validation
9 19 (19.00%) Network Architecture
10 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (17.00%) Observability
12 16 (16.00%) DevOps
12 16 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (15.00%) AI
14 12 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
15 10 (10.00%) Agile
15 10 (10.00%) Change Control
15 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
15 10 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) Python
2 1 (1.00%) Bash
2 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.00%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (17.00%) CCNP
4 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (9.00%) CCIE
7 5 (5.00%) CCNA
8 3 (3.00%) JNCIA
8 3 (3.00%) JNCIP
8 3 (3.00%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.00%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.00%) Degree
9 1 (1.00%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) NCSC
1 1 (1.00%) NIST
1 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.00%) Docker
5 2 (2.00%) vSphere
6 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.00%) Firmware
6 1 (1.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 49 (49.00%) Ansible
2 30 (30.00%) Terraform
3 13 (13.00%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.00%) Grafana
6 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) Puppet
6 1 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (53.00%) Cisco
2 43 (43.00%) F5
3 42 (42.00%) Arista
4 37 (37.00%) Palo Alto
5 22 (22.00%) Aruba
6 19 (19.00%) Juniper
7 18 (18.00%) VMware
8 14 (14.00%) SolarWinds
8 14 (14.00%) Splunk
9 12 (12.00%) Extreme Networks
10 8 (8.00%) ServiceNow
11 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
12 6 (6.00%) Dell
13 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
14 3 (3.00%) CheckPoint
14 3 (3.00%) NVIDIA
15 2 (2.00%) Barracuda Networks
15 2 (2.00%) Infoblox
15 2 (2.00%) Meraki
15 2 (2.00%) Microsoft