Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VXLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VXLAN over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 876 940
Rank change year-on-year +201 +64 +228
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 25 26 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.026% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 21
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £53,688 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £63,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £64,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +58.54%

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 7,925 13,519 15,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 13.64% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,345 9,433 8,018
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -2.64%

VXLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VXLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VXLAN.

Salary trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Top 9 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 10 May 2025. 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 +146 24 £62,500 +8.70% 40
London +105 13 £130,000 +126.09% 24
UK excluding London +179 12 £62,500 +8.70% 25
South East +105 8 £62,500 - 11
Work from Home +144 6 £51,367 -10.67% 26
East of England - 2 £66,000 -
North of England - 1 - - 12
Wales - 1 £37,733 -
North West - 1 - - 6

VXLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (92.00%) VPN
2 18 (72.00%) BGP
2 18 (72.00%) Firewall
3 17 (68.00%) IPsec
3 17 (68.00%) MPLS
3 17 (68.00%) OSPF
4 15 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 15 (60.00%) WAN
5 14 (56.00%) SD-WAN
6 11 (44.00%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (44.00%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (28.00%) DHCP
8 7 (28.00%) LAN
8 7 (28.00%) NetScaler
9 6 (24.00%) DNS
9 6 (24.00%) Network Security
9 6 (24.00%) NX-OS
9 6 (24.00%) WLAN
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Infoblox Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Consultant
7 3 (12.00%) Lead
7 3 (12.00%) Lead Network Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Senior
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Data Network Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Change Management
2 6 (24.00%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (24.00%) Process Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) Network Management
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
4 4 (16.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.00%) Network Design
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Management
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) Security Patching
6 2 (8.00%) Runbook
6 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Bash
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) CCNP
1 10 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (32.00%) CCNA
3 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) CCIE
6 3 (12.00%) JNCIS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (8.00%) CCSA
7 2 (8.00%) CCSE
7 2 (8.00%) Degree
8 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Cisco
2 10 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 10 (40.00%) Meraki
2 10 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 8 (32.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (24.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (24.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (20.00%) Arista
5 5 (20.00%) Juniper
6 4 (16.00%) Infoblox
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.00%) AlgoSec
7 3 (12.00%) Citrix
7 3 (12.00%) Riverbed
8 2 (8.00%) F5
8 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (4.00%) Aruba
9 1 (4.00%) HP
9 1 (4.00%) Tufin
9 1 (4.00%) VMware