VPLS Contracts

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPLS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 575 657
Rank change year-on-year +37 +82 +179
Contract jobs citing VPLS 1 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.035% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.026% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 16
10th Percentile - £390 £431
25th Percentile - £400 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £600 £636
90th Percentile - £613 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £550
% change year-on-year - -27.27% +37.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VPLS 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 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in the UK

VPLS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VPLS in the UK

VPLS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VPLS in the UK

VPLS
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VPLS within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +47 1 - - 31
London +40 1 - - 24

VPLS
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) RIP
1 1 (100.00%) SDH
1 1 (100.00%) SONET
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) OPNET
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper