Ethernet VPN Contracts

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 559 673
Rank change year-on-year +77 +114 +138
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 37 41 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.094% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 0.73% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 22
10th Percentile £370 £413 £433
25th Percentile £425 £555 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £587
90th Percentile £537 - £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £400 £493
% change year-on-year +15.63% -18.86% +26.41%

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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ethernet VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet VPN.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet VPN in the UK

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Top 9 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +49 24 £450 -25.00% 17
Work from Home +60 14 £500 -13.98% 12
London +21 12 £443 -26.25% 5
UK excluding London +51 10 £463 +15.63% 14
South East +39 7 £450 - 2
South West - 2 £456 -
Wales - 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £500 - 2
North of England - 1 £500 - 5

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) OpenShift
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 1 (2.70%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (83.78%) BGP
2 24 (64.86%) VXLAN
3 21 (56.76%) OSPF
4 17 (45.95%) Cisco Nexus
5 12 (32.43%) Multicast
6 9 (24.32%) Firewall
6 9 (24.32%) VPN
7 7 (18.92%) MPLS
7 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
8 6 (16.22%) WAN
9 5 (13.51%) NX-OS
10 4 (10.81%) Network Security
10 4 (10.81%) VLAN
11 3 (8.11%) DNS
11 3 (8.11%) IPv6
11 3 (8.11%) LAN
11 3 (8.11%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (5.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (10.81%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Retail
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Network Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) Consultant
2 13 (35.14%) Network Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Project Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Network Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Network Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) YAML
2 2 (5.41%) JSON
2 2 (5.41%) NETCONF
2 2 (5.41%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) RESTCONF
2 2 (5.41%) SOAP
2 2 (5.41%) XML
2 2 (5.41%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 24 (64.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) CentOS
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Migration
2 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
3 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
3 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
3 4 (10.81%) Network Design
3 4 (10.81%) Use Case
4 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (8.11%) Customer Service
4 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
4 3 (8.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (8.11%) Performance Testing
4 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (5.41%) Containerisation
5 2 (5.41%) Integration Testing
5 2 (5.41%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (5.41%) Runbook
5 2 (5.41%) Security Testing
5 2 (5.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) CCNP
1 18 (48.65%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (18.92%) CCIE
3 5 (13.51%) CCIE Data Center
3 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) CCNA
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (13.51%) vSphere
2 2 (5.41%) Ceph
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.11%) Terraform
4 2 (5.41%) Argo
4 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Cisco
2 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (16.22%) Arista
4 5 (13.51%) VMware
5 3 (8.11%) F5
5 3 (8.11%) Mellanox
5 3 (8.11%) NVIDIA
5 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
5 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.41%) Dell
6 2 (5.41%) Juniper
7 1 (2.70%) Aruba
7 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow