VLAN Contracts in the City of London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +22
Contract jobs citing VLAN 8 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.092% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 0.95% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £283 - £350
25th Percentile £388 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -4.76% -5.59%
75th Percentile £615 £475 £581
90th Percentile £714 - £626
Central London median daily rate £524 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +16.39% -4.76% -5.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 211 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.57% 9.67% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 141 252
10th Percentile £258 £206 £250
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £741 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) 3G
4 1 (12.50%) 5G
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) LTE
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VRRP
4 1 (12.50%) VSAN
4 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Documentation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Service Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
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%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
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 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Arista
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
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%) Mavenir
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam