VLAN Contracts in Central London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 133 158
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +28
Contract jobs citing VLAN 8 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.082% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 0.82% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £350 - £233
25th Percentile £444 £425 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -4.76% -5.55%
75th Percentile £615 £475 £575
90th Percentile £714 - £622
London median daily rate £430 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -11.52% -2.80% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 212 243 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.61% 9.95% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 169 270
10th Percentile £263 £206 £209
25th Percentile £438 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £669
90th Percentile £715 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £561
% change year-on-year - -10.91% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +104.55% -52.17% +31.43%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Central London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in Central London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +12 7 £548 +21.78% 6
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
VLAN
London

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 3 (37.50%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (12.50%) 3G
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (12.50%) IPv6
4 1 (12.50%) LTE
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) VRRP
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) SOAR
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (12.50%) Netcool
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Arista
2 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
3 1 (12.50%) ForeScout
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Mavenir
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) Riverbed
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam