VLAN Contract Job Trends in Central London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 133 142
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +48
Contract jobs citing VLAN 6 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.31% 0.085% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.30% 0.79% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £330 £423 £401
25th Percentile £375 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +9.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £675 £524 £626
90th Percentile £735 £541 £683
London median daily rate £447 £535 £488
% change year-on-year -16.45% +9.74% -2.50%

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 182 252 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.54% 10.69% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 160 193
10th Percentile £251 £350 £229
25th Percentile £387 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -
75th Percentile £664 £638 £625
90th Percentile £737 £739 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.89 - £26.38
25th Percentile £21.96 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile £45.41 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.51 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +10.62%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Central London

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Central London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in Central London

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VLAN

VLAN
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 15 October 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 +4 6 £425 -11.46% 7
VLAN
London

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) 3GPP
3 1 (16.67%) 4G
3 1 (16.67%) 5G
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) Unicast
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (16.67%) Icinga
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Observium
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) VMware