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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 566 631
Rank change year-on-year +72 +65 +190
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 44 21 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.048% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.15% 0.39% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 35
10th Percentile £423 £403 £469
25th Percentile £425 £413 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £526 £600 £602
90th Percentile £561 £613 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £486
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
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 3,817 5,421 7,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.47% 12.48% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,296 3,192 4,624
10th Percentile £225 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.62% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 433 433
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.46 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +114.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £60.13 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -32.79% +115.91% -2.22%

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

Ethernet VPN
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

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK

Ethernet VPN
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

Ethernet VPN
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 29 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
England +70 34 £500 +6.67% 22
London +58 17 £450 -5.26% 14
UK excluding London +57 14 £500 +25.00% 10
Work from Home +51 11 £450 -22.58% 12
South East +53 9 £500 - 4
South West - 4 £550 - 2
North of England - 3 £550 - 1
North West - 3 £550 -
Wales - 1 £475 -

Ethernet VPN
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 2 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 39 (88.64%) BGP
2 29 (65.91%) VXLAN
3 25 (56.82%) OSPF
4 15 (34.09%) Multicast
5 14 (31.82%) Firewall
6 12 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 12 (27.27%) WAN
7 11 (25.00%) VPN
8 10 (22.73%) MPLS
9 7 (15.91%) IPv6
9 7 (15.91%) LAN
9 7 (15.91%) Network Security
9 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
10 6 (13.64%) VLAN
11 5 (11.36%) Junos
11 5 (11.36%) SAN
11 5 (11.36%) Spanning Tree
12 4 (9.09%) DNS
12 4 (9.09%) TACACS
12 4 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) GitLab
1 6 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Consultant
3 7 (15.91%) Network Consultant
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Automation Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Data Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Network Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) YAML
2 2 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (4.55%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.55%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) RESTCONF
2 2 (4.55%) SOAP
2 2 (4.55%) XML
2 2 (4.55%) YANG
3 1 (2.27%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (72.73%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) CentOS
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.45%) Migration
2 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (13.64%) Configuration Management
3 5 (11.36%) DevOps
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (11.36%) Low Latency
3 5 (11.36%) Network Architecture
3 5 (11.36%) Network Design
3 5 (11.36%) Runbook
4 4 (9.09%) Change Management
4 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 4 (9.09%) Use Case
4 4 (9.09%) Validation
5 3 (6.82%) Decision-Making
5 3 (6.82%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.82%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (6.82%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (6.82%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (22.73%) CCNP
3 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
6 4 (9.09%) CCIE
7 3 (6.82%) JNCIA
8 2 (4.55%) CCNA
9 1 (2.27%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (2.27%) JNCIE
9 1 (2.27%) JNCIP
9 1 (2.27%) JNCIS
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Ceph
1 4 (9.09%) Firmware
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Ansible
2 5 (11.36%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Argo
3 2 (4.55%) HAProxy
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) Cisco
2 12 (27.27%) Arista
3 8 (18.18%) Juniper
4 7 (15.91%) Palo Alto
5 6 (13.64%) F5
6 4 (9.09%) Dell
6 4 (9.09%) Mellanox
6 4 (9.09%) NVIDIA
7 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.82%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.82%) VMware
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.27%) Aruba
9 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow