VXLAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 341 424
Rank change year-on-year +52 +83 +156
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 16 6 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.041% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 0.39% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 24
10th Percentile £349 £408 £413
25th Percentile £416 £419 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £460 £486
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -5.35% -2.80%
75th Percentile £513 £480 £500
90th Percentile £555 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,090 1,530 2,812
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.00% 10.50% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 993 1,856
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £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 35 71 106
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £44.19 £14.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £63.50 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.44% +114.29% -27.59%

VXLAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VXLAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VXLAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VXLAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

VXLAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VXLAN
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) BGP
2 9 (56.25%) Ethernet VPN
3 8 (50.00%) Firewall
4 7 (43.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (43.75%) OSPF
5 5 (31.25%) LAN
6 4 (25.00%) MPLS
6 4 (25.00%) Multicast
6 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (25.00%) WAN
6 4 (25.00%) Wireless
7 3 (18.75%) BIG-IP
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (18.75%) EIGRP
7 3 (18.75%) IPv6
7 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
8 2 (12.50%) DHCP
8 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IP Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
2 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (6.25%) ITIL
5 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Lisp
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Arista
3 4 (25.00%) Aruba
3 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (18.75%) F5
5 2 (12.50%) BMC
5 2 (12.50%) NetScout
6 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds