Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for L2TP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited L2TP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 697 842
Rank change year-on-year +119 +145 -148
Contract jobs citing L2TP 5 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.013% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.090% 0.11% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £567 - -
25th Percentile £573 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.73%
75th Percentile £608 - £419
90th Percentile £612 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £62.62 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.62 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

L2TP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,566 7,337 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.36% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,767 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 479 357
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -3.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

L2TP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing L2TP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for L2TP in the UK

L2TP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing L2TP.

Daily rate trend for L2TP in the UK

L2TP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing L2TP.

Hourly rate trend for L2TP in the UK

L2TP
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing L2TP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +115 5 £593 -
London +110 5 £593 -

L2TP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Broadband
1 5 (100.00%) MPLS
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) Multicast
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) Unicast
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (40.00%) IOS XR
3 2 (40.00%) IPv6
3 2 (40.00%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Broadband Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Business Case
4 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Network Design
4 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Nokia
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Huawei