Ethernet VPN Job Trends

Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ethernet VPN 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 632 651 702
Rank change year-on-year +19 +51 +283
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet VPN 21 48 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.090% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.67% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 38 12
10th Percentile £41,407 £51,250 £63,250
25th Percentile £58,672 £52,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £102,813 £62,500 -
90th Percentile £103,750 £66,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,989 £60,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +18.32% -29.41% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Ethernet VPN 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,596 7,151 7,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.00% 13.36% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 3,712 6,352
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,625 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -

Ethernet VPN
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ethernet VPN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ethernet VPN job vacancy trend in the UK

Ethernet VPN
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ethernet VPN

Ethernet VPN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet VPN over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Ethernet VPN in the UK

Ethernet VPN
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet VPN within the UK 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
England +34 19 £95,000 +58.33% 11
London +65 14 £98,750 -24.04% 7
Work from Home +66 11 £100,000 +70.21% 4
UK excluding London +17 5 £70,989 +18.32% 11
South West +12 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £49,479 -
Midlands - 2 £49,479 -
South East -6 1 £92,500 +54.17% 6

Ethernet VPN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) MS Visio
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 18 (85.71%) BGP
2 11 (52.38%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) MPLS
3 10 (47.62%) 4G
3 10 (47.62%) Broadband
3 10 (47.62%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (47.62%) IOS XR
4 8 (38.10%) OSPF
5 7 (33.33%) LAN
6 5 (23.81%) VPN
6 5 (23.81%) VXLAN
7 4 (19.05%) NX-OS
8 3 (14.29%) IGMP
8 3 (14.29%) Multicast
8 3 (14.29%) Network Security
8 3 (14.29%) WAN
9 2 (9.52%) VLAN
10 1 (4.76%) DHCP
10 1 (4.76%) DNS
10 1 (4.76%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Telecoms
3 10 (47.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (28.57%) Finance
5 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (9.52%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Associate Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Junior
5 2 (9.52%) Junior Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Exchange Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Supervisor
6 1 (4.76%) Network Technician
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Jinja
1 10 (47.62%) NETCONF
1 10 (47.62%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Social Media
2 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Network Design
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Data Science
2 10 (47.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Inventory Management
3 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) Validation
4 4 (19.05%) Change Control
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 3 (14.29%) Observability
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (4.76%) AI
7 1 (4.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) CCNP
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CCIE
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) CCSA
4 1 (4.76%) CCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIP
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIS
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Nagios
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 5 (23.81%) CheckPoint
2 5 (23.81%) F5
3 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
4 3 (14.29%) Arista
4 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto