Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 443 579
Rank change year-on-year +2 +136 -93
Contract jobs citing VLAN 157 293 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 3.98% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 190 175
10th Percentile £184 £225 £201
25th Percentile £281 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £538
90th Percentile £683 £676 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £23.25 £18.65
25th Percentile - £30.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +0.78% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £36.50 £47.63
90th Percentile - £48.27 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £33.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +65.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +12 140 £425 -8.60% 163
UK excluding London +4 91 £375 -14.29% 138
London +41 50 £486 -2.80% 31
Work from Home +63 39 £506 +6.58% 58
South East +16 34 £230 -54.00% 23
North of England +28 33 £514 +20.94% 34
Yorkshire +23 18 £525 +10.53% 9
North West +9 13 £220 -49.71% 20
Midlands -5 9 £250 -33.33% 33
South West +7 8 £300 -29.41% 26
West Midlands +15 6 £200 -61.54% 24
East of England +11 4 £400 -27.27% 14
Scotland +35 3 £700 - 3
East Midlands +2 3 £325 - 9
North East +19 2 £400 +190.91% 5
Wales +10 1 - - 6

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.73%) Confluence
3 6 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 41 (26.11%) Azure
2 29 (18.47%) AWS
3 19 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.19%) GCP
5 10 (6.37%) Nutanix
6 8 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.10%) IaaS
6 8 (5.10%) PaaS
6 8 (5.10%) Rubrik
6 8 (5.10%) SaaS
7 5 (3.18%) OCI
8 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.91%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.64%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 84 (53.50%) Firewall
2 71 (45.22%) VPN
3 61 (38.85%) DNS
4 59 (37.58%) DHCP
5 51 (32.48%) TCP/IP
6 50 (31.85%) LAN
7 48 (30.57%) OSPF
8 44 (28.03%) WAN
9 42 (26.75%) BGP
10 27 (17.20%) SAN
11 24 (15.29%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (13.38%) HSRP
12 21 (13.38%) NAS
12 21 (13.38%) Network Security
13 20 (12.74%) Wireless
14 18 (11.46%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (10.83%) MPLS
16 16 (10.19%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (10.19%) EIGRP
17 14 (8.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.27%) MySQL
2 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.64%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.64%) Power BI
3 1 (0.64%) Redis
3 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) JIRA
2 13 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.64%) Git
4 8 (5.10%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.64%) Darcs
5 1 (0.64%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.64%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.64%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.92%) Finance
4 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.64%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Mandarin Language
6 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.91%) Retail
8 2 (1.27%) Automotive
8 2 (1.27%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) French Language
8 2 (1.27%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.27%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Aviation
9 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.64%) German Language
9 1 (0.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) Network Engineer
2 17 (10.83%) Support Engineer
3 14 (8.92%) Senior
4 13 (8.28%) 2nd Line Support
4 13 (8.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.01%) IT Support
7 9 (5.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Architect
7 9 (5.73%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Analyst
8 8 (5.10%) Lead
8 8 (5.10%) Network Support
8 8 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) 802.1X
1 10 (6.37%) LDAP
2 4 (2.55%) XMPP
3 3 (1.91%) Jinja
3 3 (1.91%) JSON
3 3 (1.91%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.91%) RESTful
3 3 (1.91%) XML
3 3 (1.91%) YANG
4 2 (1.27%) ADSI
5 1 (0.64%) .NET
5 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.64%) CSS
5 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.64%) HTML
5 1 (0.64%) LAMP
5 1 (0.64%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.64%) libvirt
5 1 (0.64%) React
5 1 (0.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.65%) Replication
2 16 (10.19%) Clustering
3 15 (9.55%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.37%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.82%) CCTV
6 6 (3.82%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.55%) PKI
9 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) CMDB
11 1 (0.64%) CBDC
11 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.64%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.64%) Handset
11 1 (0.64%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) IPTV
11 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (36.94%) Windows
2 41 (26.11%) Linux
3 28 (17.83%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (7.01%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.10%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.10%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.10%) Solaris
6 8 (5.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.46%) Unix
8 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.27%) Android
9 2 (1.27%) VMS
9 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.01%) Change Management
2 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (10.83%) Agile
5 16 (10.19%) High Availability
6 15 (9.55%) Migration
7 14 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (8.92%) Network Architecture
7 14 (8.92%) Service Delivery
8 12 (7.64%) Computer Science
8 12 (7.64%) Data Protection
8 12 (7.64%) Decision-Making
9 10 (6.37%) DevOps
9 10 (6.37%) Storage Management
9 10 (6.37%) Supplier Management
10 9 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.73%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (5.73%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (5.10%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.75%) Python
2 26 (16.56%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.01%) Bash
4 2 (1.27%) Java
5 1 (0.64%) C
5 1 (0.64%) C#
5 1 (0.64%) C++
5 1 (0.64%) Go
5 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.64%) Perl
5 1 (0.64%) Rust
5 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (25.48%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 30 (19.11%) Security Cleared
3 29 (18.47%) CCNP
4 23 (14.65%) CCNA
5 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.46%) CCIE
8 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.82%) JNCIS
9 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.18%) MCSE
9 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.55%) CCDP
10 4 (2.55%) CISM
10 4 (2.55%) CISSP
10 4 (2.55%) PMP
10 4 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) GDPR
1 8 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.91%) NCSC
2 3 (1.91%) SLA
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (24.84%) Active Directory
2 31 (19.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.64%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.37%) Docker
4 10 (6.37%) vSphere
5 6 (3.82%) Firmware
6 4 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.64%) Ceph
8 1 (0.64%) iptables
8 1 (0.64%) KVM
8 1 (0.64%) Lustre
8 1 (0.64%) NFS
8 1 (0.64%) Samba
8 1 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (19.75%) Ansible
2 20 (12.74%) Puppet
3 19 (12.10%) Terraform
4 15 (9.55%) NetBackup
5 13 (8.28%) SCCM
6 9 (5.73%) Kubernetes
6 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (5.10%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (5.10%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (5.10%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (5.10%) Netcool
7 8 (5.10%) Tivoli
7 8 (5.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (3.82%) Autotask
9 5 (3.18%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (2.55%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.55%) Iperf
11 3 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.91%) AppManager
12 2 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (36.94%) Cisco
2 46 (29.30%) Microsoft
3 36 (22.93%) VMware
4 22 (14.01%) Palo Alto
5 20 (12.74%) Juniper
6 15 (9.55%) Veritas
7 13 (8.28%) F5
8 12 (7.64%) Oracle
9 11 (7.01%) Aruba
9 11 (7.01%) Fortinet
9 11 (7.01%) HP
10 10 (6.37%) Google
10 10 (6.37%) Splunk
11 9 (5.73%) Apple
11 9 (5.73%) Qualys
12 8 (5.10%) CheckPoint
12 8 (5.10%) Dell
12 8 (5.10%) EMC
12 8 (5.10%) IBM
12 8 (5.10%) Serena