VLAN Contracts in the East of England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 99 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing VLAN 14 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.11% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.51% 1.52% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 9
10th Percentile £225 - £380
25th Percentile £228 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -27.27% +49.66%
75th Percentile £700 £497 £700
90th Percentile - £559 -
England median daily rate £447 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -3.35% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.69
25th Percentile - - £31.99
Median hourly rate - - £33.22
75th Percentile - - £34.24
90th Percentile - - £34.39
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £30.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 254 264 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.11% 16.49% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 122 217
10th Percentile £227 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £261 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £679 £581 £700
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 79 45
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.42 £16.77
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.30 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +246.21%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the East of England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +20 9 £550 -8.33% 5
Suffolk - 3 £170 - 3
Cambridgeshire +6 1 £350 -17.65% 2
Essex - 1 £238 - 4
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) VPN
3 6 (42.86%) BGP
3 6 (42.86%) OSPF
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) LAN
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) 802.11
5 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 1 (7.14%) NAS
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VoIP
5 1 (7.14%) Wireless
5 1 (7.14%) Wireless Security
5 1 (7.14%) WLAN
5 1 (7.14%) WPA2
General
1 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Database Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) High Availability
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (14.29%) Network Management
2 2 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (7.14%) BCP
3 1 (7.14%) Biotechnology
3 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
3 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CCNP
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) AppManager
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (7.14%) Nagios
4 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 2 (14.29%) Huawei
5 2 (14.29%) VMware
6 1 (7.14%) AirMagnet
6 1 (7.14%) Aruba
6 1 (7.14%) Citrix
6 1 (7.14%) Ekahau
6 1 (7.14%) HP
6 1 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 1 (7.14%) Veeam