VLAN Contracts in the South East

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 180 200
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 -36
Contract jobs citing VLAN 29 38 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.66% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.36% 3.97% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 34
10th Percentile - £185 £185
25th Percentile £184 £313 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £500 £278
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +80.18% -30.63%
75th Percentile £359 £688 £412
90th Percentile £646 £700 £503
England median daily rate £425 £465 £445
% change year-on-year -8.60% +4.49% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - £81.37 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - +152.31% +75.15%
75th Percentile - - £48.38
90th Percentile - - £49.76
England median hourly rate - £32.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year - +0.78% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,228 956 1,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.23% 16.55% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 579 775
10th Percentile £205 £241 £188
25th Percentile £363 £366 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +8.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £648 £700 £657
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 73 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £15.54
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +148.84% -49.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Hampshire +12 13 £400 -36.00% 2
Surrey - 9 £198 - 2
Thames Valley -10 4 £200 -62.26% 9
Kent +6 3 £205 -50.90% 5
Berkshire -28 3 £413 -38.89% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (58.62%) Firewall
1 17 (58.62%) VPN
2 16 (55.17%) DHCP
3 14 (48.28%) DNS
4 11 (37.93%) TCP/IP
5 9 (31.03%) iSCSI
5 9 (31.03%) SAN
6 6 (20.69%) Wireless
7 5 (17.24%) BGP
7 5 (17.24%) LAN
7 5 (17.24%) WAN
7 5 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (13.79%) HSRP
8 4 (13.79%) NAS
8 4 (13.79%) OSPF
8 4 (13.79%) SSL
8 4 (13.79%) VoIP
9 3 (10.34%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (10.34%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) Tableau
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Automotive
2 2 (6.90%) French Language
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.90%) Portuguese Language
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Spanish Language
2 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) IT Support
2 7 (24.14%) Network Support
3 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Network Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (17.24%) IT Support Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Network Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Network Support Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Support Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Support Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Virtualisation Architect
5 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 3 (10.34%) Deskside Support
6 3 (10.34%) Desktop Support
7 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Systems Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) 802.1X
1 3 (10.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) Unix
4 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
4 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.90%) Android
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Business Case
1 5 (17.24%) Problem Management
1 5 (17.24%) RBAC
2 4 (13.79%) Change Management
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (13.79%) Security Management
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
3 3 (10.34%) Logistics
3 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.34%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
4 2 (6.90%) Inventory Management
4 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
4 2 (6.90%) Migration
4 2 (6.90%) Patch Management
4 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.90%) Storage Management
5 1 (3.45%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (17.24%) CCNA
4 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 4 (13.79%) MCSE
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.34%) CCNP
5 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CCDP
6 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) vSphere
2 9 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (13.79%) Firmware
5 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) SCCM
2 3 (10.34%) AppManager
3 1 (3.45%) Nessus
3 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Cisco
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Juniper
4 3 (10.34%) Apple
4 3 (10.34%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.45%) Avaya
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce