VLAN Contracts in the South West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 147 143 142
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -18
Contract jobs citing VLAN 8 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.66% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 3.75% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 20
10th Percentile £163 - £308
25th Percentile £200 £325 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £437 £474
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% -7.89% +26.37%
75th Percentile £575 £510 £547
90th Percentile - £638 £627
England median daily rate £425 £473 £445
% change year-on-year -10.05% +6.18% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.75
Median hourly rate - - £44.50
75th Percentile - - £47.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £32.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year - +0.78% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 530 640 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.57% 17.65% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 416 299
10th Percentile £275 £206 £224
25th Percentile £460 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £545
90th Percentile £713 £717 £619
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 125 32
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.46
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70.66 £60.70 £62.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire +7 3 £550 +4.76% 5
Bristol +15 1 £300 -25.00% 7
Somerset -1 1 £150 -64.71% 4
Wiltshire -1 1 £200 -68.00% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) IPv4
2 3 (37.50%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) HSRP
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) GIAC
3 1 (12.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) VMware