Ethernet VPN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ethernet VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet VPN 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 296 338 432
Rank change year-on-year +42 +94 +171
Contract jobs citing Ethernet VPN 13 4 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.027% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 0.26% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 20
10th Percentile £414 £469 £469
25th Percentile £425 £488 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +10.43% -11.50%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £525
90th Percentile - £691 £606
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Ethernet VPN 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,104 1,543 2,814
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.98% 10.51% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 998 1,857
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 106
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

Ethernet VPN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ethernet VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ethernet VPN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ethernet VPN.

Ethernet VPN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ethernet VPN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Ethernet VPN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ethernet VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (15.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) IaaS
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 2 (15.38%) PaaS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
2 11 (84.62%) VXLAN
3 7 (53.85%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (38.46%) MPLS
4 5 (38.46%) Multicast
5 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 3 (23.08%) IPv6
6 3 (23.08%) OSPF
6 3 (23.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (15.38%) 3GPP
7 2 (15.38%) Anycast
7 2 (15.38%) DNS
7 2 (15.38%) LAN
7 2 (15.38%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (15.38%) VPN
8 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
8 1 (7.69%) Internet
8 1 (7.69%) RIP
8 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Network Design Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) eBPF
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Design
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum
5 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) C
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) CCIE
3 3 (23.08%) CCNP
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) JNCIE
5 1 (7.69%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Arista
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Wind River
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds