VLAN Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 332 401
Rank change year-on-year -20 +69 -4
Contract jobs citing VLAN 235 146 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.20% 4.54% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 101 86
10th Percentile £287 £213 £184
25th Percentile £406 £285 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £435 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +5.45% -12.70%
75th Percentile £540 £573 £521
90th Percentile £612 £625 £582
UK median daily rate £464 £443 £450
% change year-on-year +4.80% -1.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £80.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +69.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,790 3,217 5,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 13.08% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,001 3,073
10th Percentile £238 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £490
% change year-on-year +2.04% - -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 124 403
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.60 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -8.57% +111.30%
75th Percentile £68.07 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in England

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
London -54 64 £460 +6.36% 38
North of England -27 59 £478 +67.54% 24
North West +5 51 £481 +2.39% 11
South East -60 39 £498 -1.97% 48
Midlands -43 30 £413 -31.82% 16
South West -29 22 £485 +61.67% 13
West Midlands -49 16 £413 +184.48% 9
East Midlands -27 13 £275 -57.69% 7
Yorkshire -61 8 £329 +35.57% 11
East of England -45 5 £540 +188.00% 12
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.83%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.79%) Azure
2 33 (14.04%) AWS
3 22 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (3.83%) GCP
6 8 (3.40%) SaaS
7 7 (2.98%) IaaS
7 7 (2.98%) PaaS
8 6 (2.55%) Datadog
9 4 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.70%) Azure Stack
9 4 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.28%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.28%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.85%) GitHub
11 2 (0.85%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 136 (57.87%) Firewall
2 76 (32.34%) VPN
3 73 (31.06%) WAN
4 72 (30.64%) DNS
5 67 (28.51%) BGP
5 67 (28.51%) DHCP
5 67 (28.51%) Network Security
6 66 (28.09%) OSPF
7 63 (26.81%) LAN
8 49 (20.85%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (19.15%) TCP/IP
10 31 (13.19%) Wireless
11 25 (10.64%) SD-WAN
12 20 (8.51%) MPLS
12 20 (8.51%) VXLAN
13 19 (8.09%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (7.23%) SAN
15 15 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (5.53%) NX-OS
16 13 (5.53%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.43%) MySQL
2 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.85%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 57 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.38%) Finance
3 15 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.26%) Banking
7 6 (2.55%) Legal
8 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Aviation
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (42.55%) Network Engineer
2 24 (10.21%) Architect
2 24 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (10.21%) Senior
3 22 (9.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 17 (7.23%) IT Engineer
5 14 (5.96%) Senior Network Engineer
6 13 (5.53%) IT Support
7 12 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Cisco Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Network Architect
8 10 (4.26%) Analyst
8 10 (4.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.40%) Network Specialist
10 8 (3.40%) Security Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) IT Analyst
11 7 (2.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.51%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.85%) REST
2 2 (0.85%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.85%) XMPP
3 1 (0.43%) CSS
3 1 (0.43%) HTML
3 1 (0.43%) LAMP
3 1 (0.43%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.43%) LDAP
3 1 (0.43%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.81%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.66%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.83%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.98%) Operational Technology
4 7 (2.98%) Replication
5 6 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.70%) Clustering
6 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) PKI
7 3 (1.28%) SCADA
8 2 (0.85%) CCTV
8 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.85%) IoT
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.53%) Windows
2 21 (8.94%) Windows 10
3 19 (8.09%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.53%) Linux
5 9 (3.83%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.13%) VMS
8 4 (1.70%) SUSE
9 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Debian
10 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) Unix
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.00%) Migration
2 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (14.89%) ITSM
4 32 (13.62%) Validation
5 28 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (10.64%) High Availability
6 25 (10.64%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (10.21%) Network Segmentation
8 23 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (8.94%) Network Design
9 21 (8.94%) Project Delivery
10 18 (7.66%) ITIL
10 18 (7.66%) Runbook
11 16 (6.81%) Change Control
12 14 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (5.96%) Service Management
13 12 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.11%) Zero Trust
14 11 (4.68%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.64%) Python
3 13 (5.53%) Bash
4 12 (5.11%) VBScript
5 9 (3.83%) VB
6 6 (2.55%) SQL
7 2 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.43%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 93 (39.57%) Security Cleared
2 76 (32.34%) SC Cleared
3 72 (30.64%) Cisco Certification
4 65 (27.66%) CCNP
5 50 (21.28%) CCNA
6 17 (7.23%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.68%) CCIE
7 11 (4.68%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (3.83%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.40%) Degree
10 6 (2.55%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (2.13%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.70%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.28%) CISSP
13 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.28%) PMP
14 2 (0.85%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) SLA
2 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.70%) NCSC
2 4 (1.70%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) GxP
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) GMP
5 1 (0.43%) GRC
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (16.60%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.51%) vSphere
4 18 (7.66%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.11%) Firmware
6 10 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (3.83%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.98%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.55%) KVM
10 3 (1.28%) Ceph
11 2 (0.85%) Docker
11 2 (0.85%) QEMU
11 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.43%) NFS
12 1 (0.43%) RHEV
12 1 (0.43%) Samba
12 1 (0.43%) Snort
12 1 (0.43%) SRDF
12 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (8.51%) FortiGate
2 18 (7.66%) SCCM
3 16 (6.81%) Ansible
4 13 (5.53%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.68%) VxRail
6 9 (3.83%) Nagios
6 9 (3.83%) Terraform
7 6 (2.55%) WSUS
8 5 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.28%) Iperf
9 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.85%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.85%) Grafana
10 2 (0.85%) Nmap
10 2 (0.85%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) Avamar
11 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 126 (53.62%) Cisco
2 50 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 47 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 37 (15.74%) Fortinet
4 37 (15.74%) VMware
5 23 (9.79%) Juniper
6 21 (8.94%) Aruba
7 20 (8.51%) CheckPoint
8 19 (8.09%) F5
9 17 (7.23%) ServiceNow
10 15 (6.38%) SolarWinds
11 14 (5.96%) Dell
12 12 (5.11%) Veeam
13 11 (4.68%) Meraki
14 10 (4.26%) Ekahau
15 9 (3.83%) Zscaler
16 8 (3.40%) Citrix
17 7 (2.98%) AppDynamics
17 7 (2.98%) Dynatrace
17 7 (2.98%) Tenable