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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 564 626
Rank change year-on-year +79 +62 +135
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 45 22 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.051% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 0.41% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 42
10th Percentile £425 £350 £416
25th Percentile £426 £400 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £473 £499
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £510 £538
90th Percentile £688 £525 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £425 £486
% change year-on-year +35.29% -12.55% +14.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,814 5,419 7,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.50% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,296 3,192 4,615
10th Percentile £225 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.62% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 431 430
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +113.17% -26.57%
75th Percentile £59.09 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.50 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -2.22%

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 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Top 7 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 28 June 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 +61 35 £525 +11.70% 23
London +47 16 £450 -5.26% 15
Work from Home +51 15 £444 -3.53% 12
UK excluding London +50 13 £575 +35.29% 6
South West +46 8 £625 +38.89% 3
South East - 4 £463 - 1
Wales - 1 £475 -

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 2 (4.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
3 2 (4.44%) GitHub
3 2 (4.44%) SaaS
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 35 (77.78%) BGP
2 29 (64.44%) Ethernet VPN
3 28 (62.22%) OSPF
4 24 (53.33%) Firewall
5 23 (51.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 12 (26.67%) Multicast
6 12 (26.67%) WAN
7 11 (24.44%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (22.22%) LAN
9 8 (17.78%) MPLS
10 7 (15.56%) DMVPN
10 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
10 7 (15.56%) VLAN
11 6 (13.33%) VPN
12 5 (11.11%) Junos
13 4 (8.89%) Network Security
13 4 (8.89%) Wireless
14 3 (6.67%) BIG-IP
14 3 (6.67%) EIGRP
14 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Advertising
5 2 (4.44%) Military
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (68.89%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Network Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Network Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Spine.js
2 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) gRPC
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (64.44%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) PKI
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Migration
1 10 (22.22%) Network Architecture
2 9 (20.00%) Validation
3 8 (17.78%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (15.56%) Service Management
5 6 (13.33%) Change Management
5 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 6 (13.33%) Network Design
6 5 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (11.11%) System Testing
7 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.89%) Use Case
8 3 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (6.67%) High Availability
8 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
8 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (6.67%) ITIL
8 3 (6.67%) Low Latency
8 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) Lisp
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.89%) CCNP
4 5 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.89%) CCIE
6 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.67%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.22%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.22%) CCNA
7 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.22%) JNCIE
7 1 (2.22%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.22%) JNCIS
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.11%) Firmware
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (13.33%) vCenter Server
3 5 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 31 (68.89%) Cisco
2 11 (24.44%) Arista
2 11 (24.44%) VMware
3 10 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 9 (20.00%) F5
5 8 (17.78%) Juniper
6 5 (11.11%) Aruba
7 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.44%) BMC
8 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.44%) NetScout
8 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (2.22%) Mellanox
9 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA