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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 347 419
Rank change year-on-year -8 +72 -62
Contract jobs citing VLAN 273 152 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.60% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.59% 4.67% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 97 91
10th Percentile £353 £198 £190
25th Percentile £413 £325 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £539
90th Percentile £630 £610 £625
UK median daily rate £474 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.53% +6.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £16.98 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £75.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% +4.55% +78.86%

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 4,144 3,252 4,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.75% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,010 2,855
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 139 396
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.16 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.69 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.69% - +113.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -69 76 £450 +5.88% 28
North of England -27 63 £508 +13.53% 29
North West -11 47 £575 +23.66% 14
South East -57 38 £556 +23.61% 35
Midlands -54 30 £413 -7.30% 15
South West -8 29 £495 +65.00% 15
Yorkshire -39 15 £363 +20.73% 12
West Midlands -56 15 £413 +13.01% 8
East Midlands -10 14 £275 -57.69% 7
East of England -32 7 £540 +140.00% 21
North East - 1 - - 4
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 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) DELMIA
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.01%) Azure
2 36 (13.19%) AWS
3 24 (8.79%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.13%) GCP
6 12 (4.40%) IaaS
7 11 (4.03%) GitHub
8 9 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (2.93%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.56%) PaaS
10 7 (2.56%) SaaS
10 7 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.20%) Datadog
12 5 (1.83%) Cohesity
13 4 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.47%) Azure Stack
14 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
15 2 (0.73%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 168 (61.54%) Firewall
2 92 (33.70%) DNS
3 89 (32.60%) BGP
4 88 (32.23%) WAN
5 84 (30.77%) OSPF
6 79 (28.94%) VPN
7 76 (27.84%) DHCP
8 70 (25.64%) LAN
9 68 (24.91%) Network Security
10 54 (19.78%) TCP/IP
11 45 (16.48%) Wireless
12 43 (15.75%) Wi-Fi
13 38 (13.92%) SD-WAN
14 37 (13.55%) SAN
15 27 (9.89%) Cisco Nexus
15 27 (9.89%) NX-OS
16 26 (9.52%) VXLAN
17 24 (8.79%) MPLS
18 23 (8.42%) NAS
18 23 (8.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.93%) JIRA
2 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.20%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.83%) Git
5 3 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.73%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 70 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (6.23%) Finance
5 15 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.30%) Banking
6 9 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.56%) Legal
7 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.47%) Retail
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.10%) Police
11 2 (0.73%) Aviation
11 2 (0.73%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 40 (14.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (13.92%) Architect
4 34 (12.45%) Senior
5 23 (8.42%) IT Engineer
5 23 (8.42%) Network Architect
5 23 (8.42%) Senior Network Engineer
6 19 (6.96%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 15 (5.49%) IT Support
8 14 (5.13%) Technical Architect
9 12 (4.40%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Network Security Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 9 (3.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) Senior Network Specialist
12 9 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.59%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.47%) REST
3 2 (0.73%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.73%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.73%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.37%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.76%) Replication
4 12 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.66%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.30%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.93%) PKI
8 7 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.20%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.83%) Clustering
11 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.47%) SCADA
11 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.73%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.78%) Windows
2 23 (8.42%) Windows Server
3 19 (6.96%) Linux
4 12 (4.40%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.47%) SUSE
6 4 (1.47%) VMS
6 4 (1.47%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.73%) CentOS
8 2 (0.73%) Rocky
8 2 (0.73%) Unix
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (20.88%) Migration
2 46 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (16.85%) ITSM
3 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (15.02%) Validation
5 40 (14.65%) Network Segmentation
6 31 (11.36%) High Availability
7 28 (10.26%) Network Design
8 27 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (9.16%) Project Delivery
10 25 (9.16%) Zero Trust
11 23 (8.42%) ITIL
12 22 (8.06%) Runbook
13 19 (6.96%) Network Monitoring
14 18 (6.59%) Change Control
14 18 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (5.86%) CI/CD
15 16 (5.86%) RBAC
16 15 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.65%) Python
2 22 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.76%) Bash
4 6 (2.20%) VBScript
5 5 (1.83%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.47%) VB
7 3 (1.10%) SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 83 (30.40%) SC Cleared
3 77 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (24.54%) CCNP
5 52 (19.05%) CCNA
6 23 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.96%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (5.49%) Server+ Certification
9 11 (4.03%) CCIE
10 10 (3.66%) Degree
11 8 (2.93%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.47%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.10%) CISSP
13 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.10%) PMP
13 3 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.73%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.03%) QA
2 10 (3.66%) NCSC
3 9 (3.30%) SLA
4 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.10%) GDPR
5 3 (1.10%) GxP
5 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.73%) GMP
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.73%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 39 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.55%) Active Directory
3 22 (8.06%) vSphere
4 18 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (6.23%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (5.13%) Firmware
7 13 (4.76%) Hyper-V
8 8 (2.93%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.47%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.47%) NFS
11 3 (1.10%) KVM
12 2 (0.73%) Ceph
12 2 (0.73%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.37%) Docker
13 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.37%) QEMU
13 1 (0.37%) Snort
13 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (10.26%) Ansible
2 25 (9.16%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.69%) Terraform
4 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.76%) vCenter Server
6 12 (4.40%) SCCM
7 8 (2.93%) VxRail
8 6 (2.20%) WSUS
9 4 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.47%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.10%) Grafana
10 3 (1.10%) Iperf
10 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.10%) Nagios
11 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.73%) Nmap
11 2 (0.73%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.73%) SELinux
Vendors
1 154 (56.41%) Cisco
2 55 (20.15%) Palo Alto
3 53 (19.41%) VMware
4 51 (18.68%) Fortinet
5 50 (18.32%) Microsoft
6 34 (12.45%) F5
7 27 (9.89%) CheckPoint
8 26 (9.52%) Juniper
9 23 (8.42%) Aruba
10 22 (8.06%) ServiceNow
11 16 (5.86%) SolarWinds
12 15 (5.49%) Veeam
13 12 (4.40%) Arista
13 12 (4.40%) Meraki
14 11 (4.03%) Zscaler
15 10 (3.66%) Dell
15 10 (3.66%) Ekahau
16 8 (2.93%) Citrix
17 7 (2.56%) AppDynamics
17 7 (2.56%) Dynatrace