VLAN Contracts in the North West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 138 178
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 -49
Contract jobs citing VLAN 12 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.43% 0.59% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.27% 4.42% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 3
10th Percentile £186 £204 £333
25th Percentile £210 £333 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -48.99% +1.47% +93.18%
75th Percentile £444 £473 £524
90th Percentile £500 £565 £576
England median daily rate £400 £473 £438
% change year-on-year -15.34% +8.00% +9.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 367 430 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.32% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 309 341
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £322 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cheshire +9 6 £475 +187.88% 5
Manchester +14 5 £220 -45.00% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (25.00%) DHCP
4 3 (25.00%) DNS
4 3 (25.00%) VoIP
4 3 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (16.67%) BGP
5 2 (16.67%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) OSPF
5 2 (16.67%) Value-Added Service
5 2 (16.67%) Wireshark
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
6 1 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
2 3 (25.00%) Clustering
3 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Network Design
3 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) CCNP
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CCIE
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (16.67%) VCAP
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Autotask
1 3 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Apple
1 3 (25.00%) Datto
1 3 (25.00%) Google
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard