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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 632 775
Rank change year-on-year +62 +143 -74
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 20 54 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.097% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.76% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 50
10th Percentile £350 £413 £405
25th Percentile £400 £469 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £521 £538 £588
90th Percentile £525 £616 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -17.70% +2.32% +11.76%

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 5,438 7,076 9,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.46% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,556 6,439
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.74% +5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
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 10 June 2024.

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 6 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 10 June 2024. 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 +84 18 £475 -3.65% 11
London +87 15 £475 -9.52% 3
Work from Home +80 4 £470 -3.29% 5
UK excluding London +8 1 £400 -17.70% 9
Midlands - 1 £400 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 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:

Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) BGP
2 17 (85.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 17 (85.00%) LAN
2 17 (85.00%) Wireless
3 16 (80.00%) OSPF
4 14 (70.00%) Firewall
4 14 (70.00%) MPLS
5 13 (65.00%) WAN
6 11 (55.00%) IPsec
7 10 (50.00%) EIGRP
8 9 (45.00%) DHCP
9 8 (40.00%) VPN
10 6 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (30.00%) HSRP
10 6 (30.00%) IPv6
10 6 (30.00%) VLAN
11 5 (25.00%) DNS
11 5 (25.00%) IPv4
11 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
11 5 (25.00%) TACACS
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Kalman Filter
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) ITSM
2 6 (30.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 6 (30.00%) Problem Management
2 6 (30.00%) Runbook
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Supplier Management
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (55.00%) CCNP
3 7 (35.00%) CCNA
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) CCIE
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) F5
3 11 (55.00%) Infoblox
4 6 (30.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (25.00%) Google
5 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (20.00%) Aruba
7 2 (10.00%) Juniper
7 2 (10.00%) VMware
8 1 (5.00%) Arista
8 1 (5.00%) Meraki