VXLAN Contracts

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VXLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VXLAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 559 657
Rank change year-on-year +83 +98 +123
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 44 23 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.053% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 0.41% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 36
10th Percentile £425 £350 £413
25th Percentile £428 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £520 £538
90th Percentile £688 £525 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +43.75% -15.79% -1.55%

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 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
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 £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VXLAN 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 VXLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 £550 +15.79% 21
Work from Home +54 16 £500 +25.00% 11
London +33 15 £513 +7.89% 10
UK excluding London +75 13 £575 +43.75% 13
South West - 9 £575 -
South East - 3 £425 - 4
Wales - 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £500 - 6
North West - 1 £500 - 2

VXLAN
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 (11.36%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
2 2 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 32 (72.73%) BGP
2 27 (61.36%) OSPF
3 25 (56.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 24 (54.55%) Ethernet VPN
5 17 (38.64%) Firewall
6 10 (22.73%) Multicast
7 9 (20.45%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (18.18%) LAN
8 8 (18.18%) VLAN
8 8 (18.18%) WAN
9 7 (15.91%) DMVPN
9 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
10 4 (9.09%) EIGRP
10 4 (9.09%) MPLS
10 4 (9.09%) NX-OS
10 4 (9.09%) VPN
10 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (9.09%) Wireless
11 3 (6.82%) BIG-IP
11 3 (6.82%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Advertising
5 2 (4.55%) Military
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 15 (34.09%) Consultant
3 13 (29.55%) Network Consultant
4 7 (15.91%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Data Network Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Cisco Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Designer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Network Consultant
9 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Lead
9 1 (2.27%) Lead Consultant
9 1 (2.27%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Spine.js
2 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (68.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.55%) PKI
3 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Migration
2 9 (20.45%) Network Architecture
2 9 (20.45%) Service Management
3 8 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (15.91%) Validation
5 6 (13.64%) Load Balancing
6 5 (11.36%) Network Design
6 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.36%) System Testing
7 4 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 4 (9.09%) ITIL
7 4 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (9.09%) Use Case
8 3 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (6.82%) Customer Service
8 3 (6.82%) Decision-Making
8 3 (6.82%) Low Latency
8 3 (6.82%) NsoIT
8 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) Lisp
2 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (38.64%) CCNP
3 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) CCIE
5 5 (11.36%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (11.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.55%) Degree
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.64%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (11.36%) Progress Chef
2 5 (11.36%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (77.27%) Cisco
2 13 (29.55%) VMware
3 10 (22.73%) Arista
4 8 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 5 (11.36%) Aruba
5 5 (11.36%) F5
5 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
6 4 (9.09%) Juniper
7 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.82%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.55%) BMC
8 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.55%) IBM
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.55%) NetScout
8 2 (4.55%) Solace
8 2 (4.55%) TIBCO
9 1 (2.27%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.27%) Mavenir
9 1 (2.27%) Nokia