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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 125 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 +43
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VLAN 5 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 1.49% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £274 £423 £413
25th Percentile £300 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £480 £438
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.71% -12.59%
75th Percentile £775 £524 £653
90th Percentile £790 £541 £688
Central London median daily rate £400 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.71% +24.91%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 184 201 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.22% 9.69% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 199
10th Percentile £263 £261 £213
25th Percentile £406 £391 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £650
90th Percentile £760 £756 £738
Central London median daily rate £538 £519 £540
% change year-on-year +3.71% -3.94% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VLAN

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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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VLAN

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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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (20.00%) Unicast
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) VBScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Icinga
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Observium
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) VMware