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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 353 401
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 -52
Contract jobs citing VLAN 298 158 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.01% 4.60% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 102 86
10th Percentile £362 £203 £230
25th Percentile £413 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £563
90th Percentile £657 £674 £656
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 0
10th Percentile £13.64 - -
25th Percentile £26.10 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -

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 4,250 3,433 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,141 2,650
10th Percentile £263 £235 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 163 305
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.68% +8.98% -8.24%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -38 89 £450 +12.36% 36
North of England -31 57 £500 +9.65% 25
South East -47 48 £475 +5.56% 40
North West -29 38 £575 +22.34% 17
South West -15 31 £495 +130.23% 16
Midlands -44 29 £413 -7.30% 17
Yorkshire -36 18 £475 +58.20% 6
East Midlands -5 14 £275 -57.69% 6
West Midlands -61 14 £413 +13.01% 11
East of England -24 13 £600 +152.63% 12
North East -43 1 - - 2
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 11 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.34%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (29.53%) Azure
2 40 (13.42%) AWS
3 34 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.74%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.70%) GCP
6 15 (5.03%) GitHub
6 15 (5.03%) IaaS
7 12 (4.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (3.36%) PaaS
8 10 (3.36%) SaaS
9 9 (3.02%) Datadog
10 8 (2.68%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.01%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.68%) Cohesity
14 4 (1.34%) Azure Stack
15 3 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 193 (64.77%) Firewall
2 113 (37.92%) DNS
3 110 (36.91%) BGP
4 101 (33.89%) OSPF
5 99 (33.22%) VPN
6 91 (30.54%) DHCP
7 83 (27.85%) WAN
8 71 (23.83%) LAN
8 71 (23.83%) TCP/IP
9 70 (23.49%) Network Security
10 59 (19.80%) Wireless
11 45 (15.10%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (14.77%) SAN
13 37 (12.42%) SD-WAN
14 33 (11.07%) Cisco Nexus
15 28 (9.40%) VXLAN
16 27 (9.06%) NX-OS
17 24 (8.05%) Cisco IOS
17 24 (8.05%) NAS
17 24 (8.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (3.36%) Git
2 9 (3.02%) Chocolatey
2 9 (3.02%) JIRA
3 8 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.67%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 73 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.72%) Finance
4 20 (6.71%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.36%) Banking
5 13 (4.36%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.35%) Legal
9 7 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.35%) Retail
10 6 (2.01%) Police
11 4 (1.34%) Automotive
12 3 (1.01%) Games
12 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Advertising
13 2 (0.67%) Law
14 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (45.97%) Network Engineer
2 56 (18.79%) Senior
3 49 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (12.08%) Senior Network Engineer
5 34 (11.41%) Architect
6 24 (8.05%) IT Engineer
7 23 (7.72%) Network Architect
8 15 (5.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 14 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 13 (4.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (4.36%) IT Support
10 13 (4.36%) Network Specialist
11 12 (4.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.36%) Network Security Engineer
13 10 (3.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.04%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.34%) REST
3 2 (0.67%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.67%) eBPF
3 2 (0.67%) HTML
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.67%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.67%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.67%) ODBC
3 2 (0.67%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) CSS
4 1 (0.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 94 (31.54%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.38%) Replication
3 18 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.70%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.70%) PKI
5 14 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.36%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.69%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.69%) Driving Licence
7 11 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.68%) SCADA
10 7 (2.35%) Life Science
11 6 (2.01%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.68%) Clustering
12 5 (1.68%) Digital Signage
12 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.68%) Robotics
13 4 (1.34%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.48%) Windows
2 37 (12.42%) Windows Server
3 28 (9.40%) Linux
4 13 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.68%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.01%) CentOS
7 6 (2.01%) Rocky
8 4 (1.34%) SUSE
8 4 (1.34%) VMS
9 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.67%) Unix
11 1 (0.34%) Debian
11 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (21.48%) Migration
2 59 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (15.44%) Validation
4 44 (14.77%) ITSM
5 40 (13.42%) Network Segmentation
6 34 (11.41%) High Availability
7 31 (10.40%) Network Design
7 31 (10.40%) Project Delivery
8 29 (9.73%) ITIL
9 28 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (9.06%) Zero Trust
11 25 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (7.05%) Runbook
13 20 (6.71%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (6.38%) DevOps
14 19 (6.38%) Network Monitoring
15 17 (5.70%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.45%) Python
2 28 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.70%) Bash
4 5 (1.68%) ActionScript
5 4 (1.34%) SQL
6 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.34%) Java
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.34%) Perl
7 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.19%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (25.84%) SC Cleared
4 71 (23.83%) CCNP
5 51 (17.11%) CCNA
6 22 (7.38%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.38%) Network+ Certification
8 16 (5.37%) Degree
9 15 (5.03%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (3.69%) CCIE
11 10 (3.36%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.68%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.34%) CISSP
14 4 (1.34%) JNCIP
15 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
15 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
15 3 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.36%) SLA
2 10 (3.36%) QA
3 9 (3.02%) NCSC
4 7 (2.35%) GxP
5 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.68%) NIST
6 4 (1.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.01%) GDPR
7 3 (1.01%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.67%) GMP
8 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 54 (18.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (14.77%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.38%) vSphere
4 19 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.37%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.03%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.70%) Firmware
8 11 (3.69%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.34%) KVM
10 4 (1.34%) NFS
11 2 (0.67%) Ceph
11 2 (0.67%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.34%) Docker
12 1 (0.34%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.34%) QEMU
12 1 (0.34%) Snort
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (14.77%) Ansible
2 33 (11.07%) Terraform
3 25 (8.39%) FortiGate
4 21 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.69%) SCCM
5 11 (3.69%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.01%) Nagios
6 6 (2.01%) NetBackup
6 6 (2.01%) WSUS
7 5 (1.68%) VxRail
8 4 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.34%) Grafana
8 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.34%) systemd
9 3 (1.01%) Avamar
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.01%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 170 (57.05%) Cisco
2 71 (23.83%) VMware
3 61 (20.47%) Microsoft
4 56 (18.79%) Fortinet
5 54 (18.12%) Palo Alto
6 43 (14.43%) F5
7 34 (11.41%) Juniper
8 29 (9.73%) CheckPoint
9 22 (7.38%) Aruba
9 22 (7.38%) ServiceNow
10 18 (6.04%) SolarWinds
10 18 (6.04%) Veeam
11 15 (5.03%) Arista
12 14 (4.70%) Zscaler
13 13 (4.36%) Meraki
14 11 (3.69%) Dynatrace
15 10 (3.36%) AppDynamics
15 10 (3.36%) Ekahau
15 10 (3.36%) NetApp
16 9 (3.02%) Tenable