VPLS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VPLS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VPLS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 465 616
Rank change year-on-year +114 +151 -137
Contract jobs citing VPLS 1 1 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.004% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.064% 0.034% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £323
25th Percentile - - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +24.99% -19.99%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £624
UK median daily rate £600 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +29.73% -11.90% +8.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

VPLS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,904 4,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.53% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,923 2,914
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £701 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 96 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.13 £58.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.94% +23.68% +9.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.06 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -

VPLS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VPLS trend for jobs with a WFH option

VPLS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VPLS.

VPLS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VPLS
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia