VXLAN Job Trends in the North West

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring VXLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 198 208
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +94
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 4 8 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.059% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 1.49% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - £81,250
25th Percentile £46,446 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.94%
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,948 537 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.94% 10.75% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 387 321 569
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £26,875 £32,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
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 the North West

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the North West

VXLAN
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VXLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Lancashire +8 4 £48,445 - 2
VXLAN
England

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) NGFW
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Arista
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) NetScout