L2TP Contract Job Trends

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring L2TP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 515 583
Rank change year-on-year -116 +68 +86
Contract jobs citing L2TP 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.042% 0.082% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 -
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.54 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.54 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

L2TP 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 4,789 3,646 5,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 12.56% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,932 2,255 3,219
10th Percentile £263 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 164 416
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.05 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.96 £42.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +6.88% +120.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.41 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.93 £80.71 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.86 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +4.18% -29.16% +154.89%

L2TP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing L2TP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

L2TP job vacancy trend in the UK

L2TP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing L2TP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing L2TP

L2TP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing L2TP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing L2TP

L2TP
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing L2TP within the UK over the 6 months to 6 June 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
UK excluding London -99 2 £575 -4.17% 2
England -105 2 £575 -4.17% 2
North West -41 1 £575 -4.17% 1
North of England -73 1 £575 -4.17% 1
South West - 1 - -

L2TP
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) ICMP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) RIP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk