VXLAN Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VXLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 256 312
Rank change year-on-year 0 +56 +107
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 13 12 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.14% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 1.25% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile - - £81,250
25th Percentile £46,446 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.77%
75th Percentile £50,443 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £48,445 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.26% -7.69% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,663 959 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.75% 11.07% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 809 542 1,248
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -3.91%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the North of England

VXLAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VXLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Yorkshire - 5 £48,445 -
North West +15 4 £48,445 -
North East 0 4 £48,445 - 1
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (92.31%) NGFW
2 12 (92.31%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (92.31%) Wireshark
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) OSPF
3 1 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) WLAN
General
1 12 (92.31%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (92.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Network Manager
1 12 (92.31%) Network Operations Manager
1 12 (92.31%) Operations Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Data Centre
1 12 (92.31%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Coaching
1 12 (92.31%) Creative Thinking
1 12 (92.31%) ITSM
1 12 (92.31%) Load Balancing
1 12 (92.31%) Mentoring
1 12 (92.31%) Network Monitoring
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Aruba
2 12 (92.31%) Arista
2 12 (92.31%) NetScout
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) VMware