Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VXLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VXLAN over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 945 1176
Rank change year-on-year +89 +231 -265
Permanent jobs citing VXLAN 28 30 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.030% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.19% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 27
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,000 £40,606
25th Percentile £49,375 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £67,125 £85,000 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% +23.08% -18.75%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,475 15,695 21,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.78% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,380 7,937 11,850
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +86 28 £57,500 +10.58% 13
London +113 15 £57,500 +10.58% 3
UK excluding London -12 13 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Work from Home +84 10 £57,500 -24.59% 6
South West - 7 £57,500 - 1
South East +4 3 £38,500 -50.32% 4
West Midlands +10 2 - - 1
East of England -1 2 £38,500 -50.32%
Midlands -10 2 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) BGP
2 16 (57.14%) Firewall
2 16 (57.14%) OSPF
3 15 (53.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 15 (53.57%) WAN
4 14 (50.00%) Wireless
5 13 (46.43%) TCP/IP
6 12 (42.86%) MPLS
7 11 (39.29%) LAN
7 11 (39.29%) SD-WAN
8 10 (35.71%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (32.14%) Network Security
10 8 (28.57%) VLAN
10 8 (28.57%) VPN
11 7 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
12 6 (21.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (21.43%) Wireshark
13 5 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (17.86%) DMVPN
13 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Retail
3 4 (14.29%) Law
3 4 (14.29%) Publishing
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Electronics
4 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Security Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Core Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Support
6 2 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) 802.1X
2 5 (17.86%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (92.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (7.14%) Clustering
4 2 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
4 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Windows
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.14%) Android
5 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Load Balancing
1 9 (32.14%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Network Design
4 5 (17.86%) Business Continuity
4 5 (17.86%) Customer Service
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Application Security
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
5 4 (14.29%) Network Management
6 3 (10.71%) Migration
6 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.14%) Commercialisation
7 2 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (7.14%) Observability
7 2 (7.14%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (50.00%) CCNP
3 12 (42.86%) CCNA
4 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.71%) CCIE
6 2 (7.14%) CCIP
7 1 (3.57%) CCDP
7 1 (3.57%) CCNP Voice
7 1 (3.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Cisco
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (32.14%) F5
4 6 (21.43%) CheckPoint
5 5 (17.86%) Juniper
5 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.14%) Riverbed
6 2 (7.14%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (7.14%) Supermicro
7 1 (3.57%) Arista
7 1 (3.57%) BT
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds