Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VXLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VXLAN over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 640 784
Rank change year-on-year +86 +144 -115
Contract jobs citing VXLAN 19 60 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.11% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.85% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 47
10th Percentile £350 £413 £403
25th Percentile £400 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -7.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £512 £538 £563
90th Percentile £525 £588 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £486 £490
% change year-on-year -17.70% -0.82% +13.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £51.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VXLAN 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 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VXLAN over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VXLAN in the UK

VXLAN
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VXLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +76 17 £475 -2.26% 14
London +101 15 £475 -9.52% 4
Work from Home +87 4 £435 -10.49% 7
UK excluding London +21 1 £400 -17.70% 10
Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 1

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 5 (26.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) BGP
2 15 (78.95%) Cisco Nexus
2 15 (78.95%) LAN
2 15 (78.95%) OSPF
2 15 (78.95%) Wireless
3 14 (73.68%) Firewall
3 14 (73.68%) MPLS
4 11 (57.89%) IPsec
4 11 (57.89%) WAN
5 9 (47.37%) EIGRP
6 8 (42.11%) DHCP
7 7 (36.84%) VPN
8 6 (31.58%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (31.58%) HSRP
8 6 (31.58%) IPv6
8 6 (31.58%) VLAN
9 5 (26.32%) DNS
9 5 (26.32%) IPv4
9 5 (26.32%) TACACS
10 4 (21.05%) Cisco Wireless
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Kalman Filter
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) ITSM
2 6 (31.58%) Predictive Analysis
2 6 (31.58%) Problem Management
2 6 (31.58%) Runbook
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.53%) High Availability
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Network Design
5 1 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.26%) Supplier Management
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (57.89%) CCNP
3 7 (36.84%) CCNA
4 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
4 5 (26.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.53%) CCIE
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 11 (57.89%) F5
2 11 (57.89%) Infoblox
3 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
3 6 (31.58%) Palo Alto
4 5 (26.32%) Google
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) SolarWinds
5 3 (15.79%) Aruba
6 2 (10.53%) Arista
7 1 (5.26%) Juniper
7 1 (5.26%) VMware