VXLAN Job Trends in London

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring VXLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 430 441
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 +226
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 10 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.072% 0.019% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.15% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £68,125 £91,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £70,938 £105,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £130,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.65% +108.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,938 - £65,000
90th Percentile £102,625 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

VXLAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,713 1,976 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.32% 12.80% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1,099 1,786
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,688 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VXLAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

VXLAN job vacancy trend in London

VXLAN
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VXLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VXLAN in London

VXLAN
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +37 1 £100,000 +21.21% 1
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) SaaS
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) BGP
1 10 (100.00%) OSPF
2 8 (80.00%) Firewall
3 7 (70.00%) MPLS
3 7 (70.00%) VPN
4 6 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (60.00%) WLAN
5 5 (50.00%) LAN
5 5 (50.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (50.00%) WAN
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (40.00%) IPsec
6 4 (40.00%) NetScaler
6 4 (40.00%) NX-OS
7 3 (30.00%) Wireless
8 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (20.00%) IGMP
8 2 (20.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (40.00%) Runbook
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Logistics
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Fortinet
2 7 (70.00%) Meraki
3 6 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (30.00%) Arista
5 3 (30.00%) Juniper
6 2 (20.00%) Aruba
6 2 (20.00%) Ekahau
7 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (10.00%) VMware