VXLAN Job Trends

Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VXLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 626 807
Rank change year-on-year -11 +181 +183
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 52 25 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.058% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 24 20
10th Percentile - £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £56,125 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,222 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £102,625 £116,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -19.26% -11.11% +8.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,175 5,775 11,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 13.39% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,041 3,694 9,244
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £53,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +9.28% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £79,175
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £48,507 £43,500
% change year-on-year -27.85% +11.51% -3.33%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VXLAN job vacancy trend in the UK

VXLAN
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VXLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VXLAN

VXLAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 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 -1 49 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Work from Home +46 30 £48,445 -5.69% 3
UK excluding London -31 25 £48,445 -19.26% 9
London +20 21 £97,500 -25.00% 4
North of England - 13 £48,445 - 1
South East -15 9 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £48,445 -
North East - 4 £48,445 - 1
North West - 4 £48,445 -
South West - 2 £70,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 £40,000 - 1

VXLAN
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 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) AWS
2 29 (55.77%) Azure
3 15 (28.85%) OCI
4 11 (21.15%) AWS Direct Connect
4 11 (21.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (17.31%) SaaS
6 3 (5.77%) GCP
7 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 48 (92.31%) Firewall
2 34 (65.38%) BGP
2 34 (65.38%) OSPF
3 29 (55.77%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (50.00%) VPN
5 25 (48.08%) WAN
6 24 (46.15%) MPLS
6 24 (46.15%) SD-WAN
7 20 (38.46%) LAN
8 15 (28.85%) NGFW
8 15 (28.85%) Wireless
8 15 (28.85%) Wireshark
9 14 (26.92%) WLAN
10 12 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (23.08%) IPsec
11 11 (21.15%) Cisco Firepower
11 11 (21.15%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (21.15%) NX-OS
12 10 (19.23%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (17.31%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Public Sector
3 11 (21.15%) Finance
4 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Network Manager
2 15 (28.85%) Network Operations Manager
2 15 (28.85%) Operations Manager
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco Consultant
3 10 (19.23%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 10 (19.23%) Consultant
3 10 (19.23%) Network Consultant
4 9 (17.31%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Firewall Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Network Operations Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Operations Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) WAN Consultant
5 8 (15.38%) Senior
6 7 (13.46%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (76.92%) Data Centre
2 17 (32.69%) PKI
3 9 (17.31%) Management Information System
4 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (42.31%) Network Monitoring
3 20 (38.46%) Network Segmentation
4 16 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 15 (28.85%) Coaching
5 15 (28.85%) Creative Thinking
5 15 (28.85%) ITSM
5 15 (28.85%) Load Balancing
6 13 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (17.31%) Cloud Security
8 9 (17.31%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (17.31%) Network Management
8 9 (17.31%) Runbook
9 7 (13.46%) Observability
10 6 (11.54%) Low Latency
11 5 (9.62%) Client Onboarding
12 4 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
12 4 (7.69%) Network Design
13 3 (5.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (42.31%) CCNP
3 5 (9.62%) CCIE
4 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) CCNA
5 2 (3.85%) CCSA
5 2 (3.85%) CCSE
5 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
5 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (53.85%) Ansible
2 16 (30.77%) Terraform
3 9 (17.31%) FortiGate
4 5 (9.62%) Nagios
5 1 (1.92%) vRealize
5 1 (1.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (71.15%) Cisco
2 26 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 24 (46.15%) Arista
3 24 (46.15%) Meraki
4 20 (38.46%) Aruba
5 16 (30.77%) SolarWinds
6 15 (28.85%) NetScout
7 11 (21.15%) CheckPoint
7 11 (21.15%) Dynatrace
8 9 (17.31%) ServiceNow
9 6 (11.54%) Juniper
9 6 (11.54%) VMware
10 5 (9.62%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.85%) Ekahau
11 2 (3.85%) Google
12 1 (1.92%) Sophos