VXLAN Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VXLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 516 554
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +192
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 11 50 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.14% 0.055%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 1.01% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 12
10th Percentile £47,540 £51,250 £61,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK 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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,571 4,931 5,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.85% 13.73% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 2,461 4,336
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VXLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VXLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VXLAN in the UK excluding London

VXLAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +13 8 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East +9 2 £48,445 - 2
North of England -2 2 £48,445 - 4
Midlands +19 1 £49,479 -
East Midlands - 1 £49,479 -
VXLAN
UK

VXLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (81.82%) BGP
2 9 (81.82%) LAN
2 9 (81.82%) OSPF
2 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 9 (81.82%) WAN
3 8 (72.73%) MPLS
3 8 (72.73%) SD-WAN
3 8 (72.73%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) VLAN
4 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.09%) IPsec
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (9.09%) VPLS
5 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Consultant
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 7 (63.64%) Consultant
1 7 (63.64%) Network Consultant
1 7 (63.64%) WAN Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Network Management
1 7 (63.64%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) CCNP
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCIE
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 7 (63.64%) FortiGate
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Fortinet
2 7 (63.64%) Meraki
3 3 (27.27%) Aruba
4 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Arista
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper
5 1 (9.09%) NetScout
5 1 (9.09%) Sophos
5 1 (9.09%) VMware