VLAN Contracts in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 407 551
Rank change year-on-year +12 +144 -102
Contract jobs citing VLAN 140 266 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 4.31% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 174 148
10th Percentile £184 £220 £202
25th Percentile £250 £318 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £439
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +5.98% +9.69%
75th Percentile £525 £599 £539
90th Percentile £580 £688 £596
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.39% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £23.25 £18.65
25th Percentile - £30.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £36.50 £47.63
90th Percentile - £48.27 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +69.23% +0.78% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +41 50 £486 -2.80% 31
South East +16 34 £230 -54.00% 23
North of England +28 33 £514 +20.94% 34
Yorkshire +23 18 £525 +10.53% 9
North West +9 13 £220 -49.71% 20
Midlands -5 9 £250 -33.33% 33
South West +7 8 £300 -29.41% 26
West Midlands +15 6 £200 -61.54% 24
East of England +11 4 £400 -27.27% 14
East Midlands +2 3 £325 - 9
North East +19 2 £400 +190.91% 5
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.43%) Confluence
3 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 40 (28.57%) Azure
2 27 (19.29%) AWS
3 19 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.43%) GCP
5 10 (7.14%) Nutanix
6 8 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.71%) IaaS
6 8 (5.71%) PaaS
6 8 (5.71%) Rubrik
6 8 (5.71%) SaaS
7 5 (3.57%) OCI
8 4 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 72 (51.43%) Firewall
2 64 (45.71%) VPN
3 53 (37.86%) DHCP
4 52 (37.14%) DNS
5 47 (33.57%) LAN
6 44 (31.43%) OSPF
6 44 (31.43%) TCP/IP
7 41 (29.29%) WAN
8 38 (27.14%) BGP
9 27 (19.29%) SAN
10 23 (16.43%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (15.00%) NAS
12 20 (14.29%) HSRP
12 20 (14.29%) Wireless
13 18 (12.86%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 16 (11.43%) EIGRP
15 14 (10.00%) MPLS
16 13 (9.29%) Network Security
16 13 (9.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.43%) MySQL
2 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.71%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Power BI
3 1 (0.71%) Redis
3 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Jenkins
1 13 (9.29%) JIRA
2 11 (7.86%) Git
3 8 (5.71%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.71%) Darcs
4 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.71%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.71%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 11 (7.86%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Automotive
8 2 (1.43%) Banking
8 2 (1.43%) French Language
8 2 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
8 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Network Engineer
2 16 (11.43%) Support Engineer
3 13 (9.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 13 (9.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 12 (8.57%) Senior
5 10 (7.14%) IT Support
6 9 (6.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 9 (6.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 8 (5.71%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Lead
7 8 (5.71%) Network Support
7 8 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 6 (4.29%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Data Protection Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 10 (7.14%) LDAP
2 4 (2.86%) XMPP
3 2 (1.43%) ADSI
3 2 (1.43%) Jinja
3 2 (1.43%) JSON
3 2 (1.43%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.43%) RESTful
3 2 (1.43%) XML
3 2 (1.43%) YANG
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.71%) CSS
4 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.71%) HTML
4 1 (0.71%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.71%) libvirt
4 1 (0.71%) React
4 1 (0.71%) REST
4 1 (0.71%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) Replication
2 16 (11.43%) Clustering
3 13 (9.29%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.43%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.29%) CCTV
6 6 (4.29%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.14%) PKI
9 2 (1.43%) CMDB
9 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) CBDC
10 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.71%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.71%) Handset
10 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (39.29%) Windows
2 40 (28.57%) Linux
3 25 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.86%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (5.71%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.71%) Solaris
6 8 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (5.00%) Unix
8 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.43%) Android
9 2 (1.43%) VMS
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.71%) Change Management
2 16 (11.43%) High Availability
3 15 (10.71%) Agile
4 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 13 (9.29%) Network Architecture
6 12 (8.57%) Data Protection
7 10 (7.14%) DevOps
7 10 (7.14%) Storage Management
7 10 (7.14%) Supplier Management
8 9 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (6.43%) Migration
8 9 (6.43%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (5.71%) Data Security
9 8 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (5.71%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (5.71%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.43%) Python
2 23 (16.43%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.86%) Bash
4 2 (1.43%) Java
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) C#
5 1 (0.71%) C++
5 1 (0.71%) Go
5 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.71%) Perl
5 1 (0.71%) Rust
5 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (17.86%) CCNP
3 24 (17.14%) Degree
3 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 16 (11.43%) CCNA
5 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.29%) CCIE
6 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.57%) MCSE
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.86%) CCDP
8 4 (2.86%) JNCIS
8 4 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.14%) VCAP
10 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) GDPR
1 8 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.43%) NCSC
2 2 (1.43%) QA
2 2 (1.43%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 29 (20.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.86%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.14%) Docker
4 10 (7.14%) vSphere
5 6 (4.29%) Firmware
6 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.71%) Ceph
7 1 (0.71%) iptables
7 1 (0.71%) KVM
7 1 (0.71%) Lustre
7 1 (0.71%) NFS
7 1 (0.71%) Samba
7 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (21.43%) Ansible
2 20 (14.29%) Puppet
3 18 (12.86%) Terraform
4 15 (10.71%) NetBackup
5 13 (9.29%) SCCM
6 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
6 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (5.71%) Netcool
7 8 (5.71%) Tivoli
7 8 (5.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Autotask
9 5 (3.57%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (2.86%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.86%) Iperf
11 3 (2.14%) AppManager
12 2 (1.43%) WSUS
13 1 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 55 (39.29%) Cisco
2 43 (30.71%) Microsoft
3 32 (22.86%) VMware
4 20 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 17 (12.14%) Juniper
6 15 (10.71%) Veritas
7 12 (8.57%) F5
7 12 (8.57%) Oracle
8 10 (7.14%) Fortinet
8 10 (7.14%) Google
8 10 (7.14%) HP
8 10 (7.14%) Splunk
9 9 (6.43%) Apple
9 9 (6.43%) Qualys
10 8 (5.71%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.71%) Dell
10 8 (5.71%) EMC
10 8 (5.71%) IBM
10 8 (5.71%) Serena
10 8 (5.71%) SolarWinds