VLAN Contracts in the North of England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 173 233
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 -63
Contract jobs citing VLAN 32 40 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 0.70% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.63% 6.06% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 12
10th Percentile £210 £163 £318
25th Percentile £408 £284 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +37.07% -23.08% +129.41%
75th Percentile £539 £529 £575
90th Percentile £564 £700 £607
England median daily rate £425 £465 £440
% change year-on-year -8.60% +5.68% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £607 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +30 17 £525 +7.69% 10
North West +14 13 £220 -45.85% 14
North East +15 2 £400 +190.91% 4
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England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (6.25%) IIS
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) VPN
2 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) DHCP
3 5 (15.63%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
3 5 (15.63%) WAN
4 4 (12.50%) BGP
4 4 (12.50%) MPLS
4 4 (12.50%) OSPF
4 4 (12.50%) Value-Added Service
4 4 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 3 (9.38%) VoIP
6 2 (6.25%) NAS
6 2 (6.25%) SAN
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
General
1 19 (59.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) NetBackup Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Replication
2 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
3 3 (9.38%) Clustering
4 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Change Management
2 13 (40.63%) Service Delivery
3 10 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Migration
5 4 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.38%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (9.38%) Quality Management
7 2 (6.25%) Network Design
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security
8 1 (3.13%) Digital Strategy
8 1 (3.13%) High Availability
8 1 (3.13%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) CCNP
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) CCIE
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) VCAP
4 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Ansible
1 15 (46.88%) Puppet
2 14 (43.75%) NetBackup
3 3 (9.38%) Autotask
3 3 (9.38%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (9.38%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Veritas
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 3 (9.38%) Apple
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Datto
4 3 (9.38%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Aruba
5 2 (6.25%) HP
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp
6 1 (3.13%) Symantec
6 1 (3.13%) WatchGuard