VLAN Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.34% 1.15% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.08% 8.60% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £207 £318 -
25th Percentile £281 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £375 £240
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +56.25% -11.93%
75th Percentile £531 £388 -
90th Percentile £602 - -
England median daily rate £458 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +8.93% -11.58% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 93 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.62% 13.42% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 73
10th Percentile £146 £152 £215
25th Percentile £154 £182 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £201 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -46.33% -11.76% -3.24%
75th Percentile £475 £643 £550
90th Percentile £500 £721 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £15.60 £21.14 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.06 £22.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.99 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +15.14% -14.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.46 £54.00
90th Percentile - £24.96 -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Derbyshire 0 2 £408 +8.67%
Leicestershire - 1 - - 1
VLAN
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) PSTN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Openreach Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Openreach
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Zerto