VLAN Contracts in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 385 516
Rank change year-on-year +44 +131 -103
Contract jobs citing VLAN 50 113 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.42% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.90% 4.22% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 65 59
10th Percentile £330 £222 £310
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% - +29.03%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £549
90th Percentile £629 £683 £622
England median daily rate £425 £473 £445
% change year-on-year -10.05% +6.18% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate - £32.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year - +0.78% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,726 2,680 3,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.91% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 1,888 2,552
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +1.59% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £739 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 53 83
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £20.91
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +31.43% -
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.52
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +21 2 £450 -4.76% 3
East London - 1 £520 - 2
VLAN
England

VLAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (18.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (18.00%) Nutanix
5 8 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (16.00%) IaaS
5 8 (16.00%) PaaS
5 8 (16.00%) Rubrik
5 8 (16.00%) SaaS
6 5 (10.00%) OCI
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (70.00%) Firewall
2 28 (56.00%) LAN
3 26 (52.00%) DHCP
4 25 (50.00%) OSPF
5 24 (48.00%) BGP
5 24 (48.00%) DNS
5 24 (48.00%) WAN
6 19 (38.00%) TCP/IP
7 18 (36.00%) VPN
8 15 (30.00%) EIGRP
9 14 (28.00%) HSRP
9 14 (28.00%) NAS
9 14 (28.00%) SAN
10 11 (22.00%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (22.00%) VXLAN
10 11 (22.00%) Wireless
11 10 (20.00%) MPLS
11 10 (20.00%) Network Security
12 9 (18.00%) Kerberos
12 9 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) MySQL
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Jenkins
1 13 (26.00%) JIRA
2 11 (22.00%) Git
3 8 (16.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.00%) Darcs
4 1 (2.00%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (18.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Mandarin Language
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Aviation
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) LAN Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Switch Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) LDAP
2 6 (12.00%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.00%) Jinja
3 2 (4.00%) JSON
3 2 (4.00%) NETCONF
3 2 (4.00%) RESTful
3 2 (4.00%) XML
3 2 (4.00%) YANG
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) LAMP
4 1 (2.00%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.00%) libvirt
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Clustering
2 9 (18.00%) Replication
3 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (12.00%) CCTV
4 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (12.00%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (6.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.00%) CBDC
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.00%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.00%) Windows
2 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (24.00%) Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Solaris
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) High Availability
2 13 (26.00%) Agile
3 11 (22.00%) Network Architecture
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (16.00%) Data Security
6 8 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (16.00%) DevOps
6 8 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (16.00%) Security Hardening
6 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Storage Management
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (14.00%) Service Catalogue
7 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (18.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) C
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) C++
4 1 (2.00%) Go
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Perl
4 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (18.00%) CCNP
4 7 (14.00%) CCNA
5 6 (12.00%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.00%) CCIE
7 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) GDPR
1 8 (16.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.00%) Docker
4 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) Ceph
5 1 (2.00%) iptables
5 1 (2.00%) KVM
5 1 (2.00%) Lustre
5 1 (2.00%) NFS
5 1 (2.00%) Samba
5 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.00%) Netcool
3 8 (16.00%) Tivoli
3 8 (16.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (8.00%) FortiGate
5 4 (8.00%) Iperf
6 2 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) SCCM
7 1 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.00%) Kibana
7 1 (2.00%) logstash
7 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Cisco
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (28.00%) Palo Alto
4 11 (22.00%) VMware
5 9 (18.00%) Oracle
5 9 (18.00%) Splunk
6 8 (16.00%) CheckPoint
6 8 (16.00%) CyberArk
6 8 (16.00%) Dell
6 8 (16.00%) EMC
6 8 (16.00%) HP
6 8 (16.00%) IBM
6 8 (16.00%) Isilon
6 8 (16.00%) Juniper
6 8 (16.00%) Qualys
6 8 (16.00%) Serena
6 8 (16.00%) ServiceNow
7 7 (14.00%) Google
8 6 (12.00%) Aruba
8 6 (12.00%) Huawei