VXLAN Contract Job Trends

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VXLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 508 522
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +62
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 140 44 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.75% 1.16% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 25 18
10th Percentile £375 £320 £350
25th Percentile £422 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £659 £575 £538
90th Percentile £713 £623 £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +21.05% -2.56% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £75.88 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £79.38 £39.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VXLAN 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 5,086 3,782 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 11.65% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,994 2,323 2,657
10th Percentile £232 £235 £231
25th Percentile £396 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -6.90% +9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 197 269
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.00 £43.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.23% -17.14% -7.06%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.80 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -39.20% -25.89% +1.52%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the UK

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VXLAN
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 VXLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 8 September 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 -32 119 £575 +4.55% 62
UK excluding London -33 73 £575 +21.05% 30
Work from Home -37 42 £500 +3.63% 19
London -55 41 £625 +13.64% 34
North of England - 26 £575 - 11
South East -51 22 £625 +25.00% 10
North West - 15 £575 - 6
South West -32 14 £495 +10.00% 4
North East - 13 £650 - 1
Scotland - 8 £388 - 2
Midlands - 6 £674 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £674 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 - - 4

VXLAN
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 3 (2.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.43%) Apache
2 2 (1.43%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.57%) AWS
2 46 (32.86%) Azure
3 23 (16.43%) OCI
4 12 (8.57%) SaaS
5 9 (6.43%) GCP
5 9 (6.43%) GitHub
6 5 (3.57%) Nutanix
7 4 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.43%) AWS IoT
9 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 107 (76.43%) BGP
2 89 (63.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 74 (52.86%) OSPF
4 60 (42.86%) Firewall
5 55 (39.29%) WAN
6 35 (25.00%) VLAN
7 34 (24.29%) BIG-IP
8 32 (22.86%) SD-WAN
9 27 (19.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 26 (18.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 23 (16.43%) NX-OS
12 22 (15.71%) VPN
13 21 (15.00%) Network Security
14 20 (14.29%) LAN
15 14 (10.00%) DHCP
15 14 (10.00%) DNS
15 14 (10.00%) WLAN
16 13 (9.29%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (8.57%) MPLS
18 11 (7.86%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 27 (19.29%) GitLab
2 10 (7.14%) Git
3 5 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.14%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
2 14 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.14%) Finance
4 8 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Military
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Police
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (36.43%) Network Engineer
2 42 (30.00%) Senior
3 26 (18.57%) Architect
4 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (14.29%) Network Architect
5 20 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Consultant
7 12 (8.57%) Data Network Engineer
8 10 (7.14%) Network Consultant
9 7 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Network Specialist
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Network Consultant
11 5 (3.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Firewall Specialist
11 5 (3.57%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.86%) Design Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.43%) Terraform
2 13 (9.29%) 802.1X
2 13 (9.29%) REST
3 10 (7.14%) YAML
4 8 (5.71%) JSON
5 3 (2.14%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.43%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.43%) eBPF
6 2 (1.43%) gRPC
6 2 (1.43%) RESTCONF
6 2 (1.43%) Spine.js
7 1 (0.71%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.71%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 120 (85.71%) Data Centre
2 26 (18.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.00%) Clustering
5 6 (4.29%) PKI
6 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.86%) IoT
7 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.71%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.43%) Linux
1 9 (6.43%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
1 41 (29.29%) Load Balancing
2 33 (23.57%) CI/CD
3 32 (22.86%) Network Design
4 31 (22.14%) High Availability
5 30 (21.43%) Zero Trust
6 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (18.57%) Migration
7 26 (18.57%) Validation
8 25 (17.86%) Network Architecture
9 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (10.00%) DevOps
13 12 (8.57%) AI
13 12 (8.57%) Project Delivery
14 11 (7.86%) Change Control
14 11 (7.86%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.86%) Python
2 3 (2.14%) Bash
2 3 (2.14%) C
2 3 (2.14%) C++
2 3 (2.14%) Java
2 3 (2.14%) Lisp
3 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (32.14%) Security Cleared
3 34 (24.29%) CCNP
4 25 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 18 (12.86%) CCIE
6 11 (7.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (7.14%) Degree
8 7 (5.00%) CCNA
9 5 (3.57%) CCSE
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.14%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.14%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.43%) VCAP
11 2 (1.43%) VCDX
12 1 (0.71%) CCDE
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.43%) NIST
1 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.71%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.86%) Docker
4 4 (2.86%) vSphere
5 3 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.43%) Ceph
6 2 (1.43%) Firmware
6 2 (1.43%) KVM
6 2 (1.43%) NFS
6 2 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.71%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 55 (39.29%) Ansible
2 10 (7.14%) FortiGate
3 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.86%) Grafana
4 4 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.43%) SELinux
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (64.29%) Cisco
2 62 (44.29%) F5
3 49 (35.00%) Arista
3 49 (35.00%) Palo Alto
4 31 (22.14%) Aruba
5 23 (16.43%) Juniper
6 22 (15.71%) VMware
7 19 (13.57%) Fortinet
8 9 (6.43%) CheckPoint
9 8 (5.71%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.71%) SolarWinds
10 7 (5.00%) Red Hat
11 6 (4.29%) Extreme Networks
11 6 (4.29%) Splunk
12 5 (3.57%) Dell
13 4 (2.86%) NVIDIA
14 2 (1.43%) Barracuda Networks
14 2 (1.43%) Ekahau
14 2 (1.43%) Infoblox
14 2 (1.43%) Microsoft