VLAN Contracts in Cheshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VLAN 6 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.95% 2.40% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.00% 18.18% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £424 -
25th Percentile £463 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - -
75th Percentile £488 £666 -
90th Percentile - £716 -
North West median daily rate £470 £531 £393
% change year-on-year -11.53% +35.35% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 100 66 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.87% 13.20% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 27 51
10th Percentile £318 £200 £350
25th Percentile £375 £374 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £765 £611
North West median daily rate £447 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -13.20% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.50
% change year-on-year +36.94% +194.30% -48.14%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Cheshire

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VLAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VLAN

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Warrington -3 2 - - 3
Knutsford - 2 £475 -
VLAN
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
1 4 (66.67%) OSPF
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Network Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
1 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Network Design
1 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Service Design
1 4 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
1 4 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCIE
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) JNCIE
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) VMware