VLAN Contracts in Berkshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 105 93
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +23
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VLAN 11 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 0.35% 1.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.79% 2.01% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile - £569 £254
25th Percentile - £579 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £616 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -8.70% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £662 £700
90th Percentile - £676 £711
South East median daily rate £450 £267 £600
% change year-on-year +68.39% -55.46% +33.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 190 299 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.09% 17.66% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 123 210
10th Percentile £293 £267 £205
25th Percentile £363 £369 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -0.59%
75th Percentile £547 £608 £588
90th Percentile £600 £648 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.70
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +14.64% +231.07%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN 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

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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

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DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +29 10 £450 -26.98% 8
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) BGP
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
1 7 (63.64%) OSPF
2 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) 802.11
3 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (27.27%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (9.09%) TACACS
4 1 (9.09%) WLAN
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
1 3 (27.27%) Wireless Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Security Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
1 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Data Collection
2 3 (27.27%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CCNP
2 6 (54.55%) CCSA
2 6 (54.55%) CCSE
2 6 (54.55%) Check Point Certification
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
2 6 (54.55%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) Aruba
3 4 (36.36%) Juniper
3 4 (36.36%) Meraki
4 3 (27.27%) AirMagnet
4 3 (27.27%) Ekahau
4 3 (27.27%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (9.09%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) VMware