VLAN Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 84 112
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing VLAN 15 19 15
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.02% 1.25% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.15% 6.35% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 10
10th Percentile - £484 £346
25th Percentile £219 £563 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £658 £538
Median % change year-on-year -63.80% +22.33% -1.47%
75th Percentile £267 £685 £688
90th Percentile £419 £686 £701
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £548
% change year-on-year -5.56% -17.81% +4.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

VLAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 299 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.59% 19.68% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 131 270
10th Percentile £255 £233 £200
25th Percentile £325 £353 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £475 £419
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +13.43% -11.84%
75th Percentile £537 £603 £575
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile £17.63 £22.28 £24.41
25th Percentile £28.00 £27.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £38.25 £71.07
Median % change year-on-year +69.93% -46.18% +202.40%
75th Percentile £84.50 £48.94 £77.85
90th Percentile £89.88 £54.83 £85.36
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.08% +2.50% +33.33%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

VLAN job vacancy trend in Berkshire

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in Berkshire

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Wokingham - 13 £238 -
Reading -2 1 £175 -69.57% 4
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) DHCP
1 14 (93.33%) DNS
1 14 (93.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (20.00%) LAN
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (20.00%) OSPF
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 14 (93.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (73.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (73.33%) ITIL
1 11 (73.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (73.33%) Service Management
1 11 (73.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Network+ Certification
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (73.33%) Azure Certification
3 11 (73.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (73.33%) Server+ Certification
4 3 (20.00%) CCNP
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Hyper-V
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds