VLAN Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VLAN 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.42% - 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
75th Percentile £575 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - -
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 15 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 7.27% 20.27% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £444 £467 £362
25th Percentile £463 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% +35.94%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £575
90th Percentile £649 £639 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -17.43% +1.40% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - -
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -37.74%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing VLAN

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware