VPLS Contracts in London

Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring VPLS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VPLS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 474 585
Rank change year-on-year +86 +111 -83
Contract jobs citing VPLS 12 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.032% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 15
10th Percentile £570 £443 -
25th Percentile £588 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +8.81%
75th Percentile £613 £666 £563
90th Percentile - £714 £575
England median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

VPLS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,664 2,568 3,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.41% 10.21% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,808 2,579
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 90
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £43.29
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £63.39
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

VPLS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VPLS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VPLS in London

VPLS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VPLS in London

VPLS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) MPLS
2 11 (91.67%) BGP
3 10 (83.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 9 (75.00%) IPv4
5 8 (66.67%) HSRP
5 8 (66.67%) RSVP
5 8 (66.67%) SNMP
5 8 (66.67%) VRRP
6 6 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (50.00%) IOS XR
7 4 (33.33%) VPN
8 3 (25.00%) IPv6
9 2 (16.67%) Broadband
9 2 (16.67%) L2TP
10 1 (8.33%) 5G
10 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (8.33%) Firewall
10 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) IP Expert
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Expert
3 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Design Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Broadband Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) JSON
1 10 (83.33%) NETCONF
1 10 (83.33%) XML
1 10 (83.33%) YANG
2 8 (66.67%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Test Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) DDoS Mitigation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CCIE
2 4 (33.33%) CCIE Service Provider
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Nokia
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) Huawei
5 1 (8.33%) F5
5 1 (8.33%) VMware