VLAN Contracts in Cheshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing VLAN 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.39% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.09% 2.11% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £431 £163 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £165 £590
Median % change year-on-year +187.88% -72.03% +38.82%
75th Percentile £503 £168 £610
90th Percentile £513 - -
North West median daily rate £220 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -49.71% +2.94% +93.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

VLAN 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 advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 77 95 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.28% 17.56% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 62 50
10th Percentile £65 £264 £163
25th Percentile £199 £331 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £408
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +21.17% +1.88%
75th Percentile £519 £582 £575
90th Percentile £582 £630 £630
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Cheshire

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in Cheshire

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in Cheshire

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Warrington +10 3 £475 - 3
Chester - 1 - -
VLAN
North West

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) Value-Added Service
2 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Audit Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCIE
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) VCAP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) LogicMonitor
1 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) WatchGuard