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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 361 385
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 -57
Contract jobs citing VLAN 286 169 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.58% 5.15% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 113 78
10th Percentile £375 £219 £254
25th Percentile £413 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £584
90th Percentile £661 £658 £664
UK median daily rate £495 £446 £444
% change year-on-year +10.99% +0.51% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £49.25 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.85% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.85 -
UK median hourly rate £49.25 £34.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +44.85% +12.40% -8.94%

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 4,348 3,282 3,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,076 2,243
10th Percentile £258 £224 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 169 173
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -34.61% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £92.51 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -22.94% -16.67% -9.72%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -60 84 £450 +5.88% 103
North of England -32 60 £500 +11.86% 42
South East -54 46 £488 +14.71% 72
South West -11 31 £495 +29.41% 25
North West -31 31 £519 +9.28% 28
Yorkshire -16 28 £500 +173.97% 10
Midlands -48 21 £250 -47.37% 34
East of England -24 17 £600 +34.83% 25
West Midlands -42 12 £250 -47.37% 27
East Midlands -10 9 - - 7
North East -37 1 - - 8
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 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.10%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.75%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (27.27%) Azure
2 41 (14.34%) AWS
3 34 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.84%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.04%) GitHub
6 18 (6.29%) GCP
7 12 (4.20%) IaaS
8 8 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.10%) PaaS
10 5 (1.75%) Cohesity
10 5 (1.75%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.75%) SaaS
11 4 (1.40%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (1.40%) Datadog
11 4 (1.40%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 179 (62.59%) Firewall
2 114 (39.86%) DNS
3 105 (36.71%) BGP
4 93 (32.52%) DHCP
4 93 (32.52%) VPN
5 91 (31.82%) OSPF
6 80 (27.97%) WAN
7 67 (23.43%) TCP/IP
8 63 (22.03%) Network Security
9 61 (21.33%) LAN
10 60 (20.98%) Wireless
11 42 (14.69%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (13.29%) SD-WAN
13 36 (12.59%) Cisco Nexus
14 35 (12.24%) SAN
15 29 (10.14%) VXLAN
16 28 (9.79%) Multicast
17 26 (9.09%) IPsec
18 25 (8.74%) WLAN
19 23 (8.04%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (5.24%) JIRA
2 14 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.55%) Git
4 7 (2.45%) GitLab
5 5 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.40%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 57 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.19%) Finance
4 17 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.50%) Banking
7 10 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.10%) Police
9 6 (2.10%) Retail
10 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Automotive
11 4 (1.40%) Games
12 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Legal
13 2 (0.70%) French Language
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 133 (46.50%) Network Engineer
2 63 (22.03%) Senior
3 52 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (15.73%) Senior Network Engineer
5 25 (8.74%) Architect
6 18 (6.29%) Network Architect
7 17 (5.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 16 (5.59%) Cisco Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) IT Engineer
10 14 (4.90%) Network Specialist
11 12 (4.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.20%) Senior Network Specialist
12 10 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.80%) Implementation Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) IT Support
14 8 (2.80%) Network Security Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.38%) Terraform
2 14 (4.90%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.75%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.75%) REST
4 3 (1.05%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.70%) .NET
5 2 (0.70%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.70%) eBPF
5 2 (0.70%) gRPC
5 2 (0.70%) HTML
5 2 (0.70%) HTML5
5 2 (0.70%) JSON
5 2 (0.70%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.70%) ODBC
5 2 (0.70%) YAML
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.92%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.59%) PKI
4 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.55%) Replication
6 12 (4.20%) Operational Technology
6 12 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.85%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.50%) Driving Licence
8 10 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.80%) Digital Signage
10 7 (2.45%) Life Science
10 7 (2.45%) SCADA
10 7 (2.45%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.10%) CMDB
11 6 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.75%) IoT
12 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (27.27%) Windows
2 42 (14.69%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.54%) Linux
4 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.80%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.10%) CentOS
7 6 (2.10%) Rocky
7 6 (2.10%) Unix
7 6 (2.10%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.05%) Android
8 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (18.88%) Migration
3 50 (17.48%) Validation
4 47 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (15.73%) ITSM
6 41 (14.34%) Network Segmentation
7 36 (12.59%) High Availability
8 35 (12.24%) Network Design
9 34 (11.89%) Project Delivery
10 32 (11.19%) ITIL
11 31 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (8.74%) Zero Trust
14 23 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.34%) CI/CD
16 20 (6.99%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (6.99%) Load Balancing
16 20 (6.99%) Runbook
17 19 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (6.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.08%) Python
2 35 (12.24%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.55%) Bash
4 7 (2.45%) VBScript
5 6 (2.10%) VB
6 5 (1.75%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.70%) Java
7 2 (0.70%) SQL
7 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 90 (31.47%) Security Cleared
2 66 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 65 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (19.23%) CCNP
5 29 (10.14%) CCNA
6 22 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 16 (5.59%) Degree
8 12 (4.20%) Network+ Certification
9 10 (3.50%) CCIE
9 10 (3.50%) Server+ Certification
10 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.75%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.75%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.05%) CISM
13 3 (1.05%) CISSP
13 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.24%) QA
2 11 (3.85%) SLA
3 7 (2.45%) NIST
4 6 (2.10%) GxP
4 6 (2.10%) NCSC
5 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.40%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.70%) GDPR
7 2 (0.70%) GMP
7 2 (0.70%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 61 (21.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.29%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.69%) vSphere
4 16 (5.59%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.85%) Firmware
7 10 (3.50%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.10%) KVM
10 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.40%) NFS
11 4 (1.40%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.70%) Ceph
12 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.35%) Docker
13 1 (0.35%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.35%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 50 (17.48%) Ansible
2 24 (8.39%) FortiGate
3 19 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.20%) SCCM
5 10 (3.50%) Kubernetes
6 9 (3.15%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.80%) Cisco Prime
8 7 (2.45%) Grafana
9 6 (2.10%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.40%) Nagios
10 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.40%) systemd
11 3 (1.05%) Avamar
11 3 (1.05%) vMotion
11 3 (1.05%) WSUS
12 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.70%) SELinux
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 167 (58.39%) Cisco
2 76 (26.57%) VMware
3 65 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 54 (18.88%) Fortinet
5 48 (16.78%) F5
6 42 (14.69%) Palo Alto
7 34 (11.89%) Juniper
8 29 (10.14%) ServiceNow
9 25 (8.74%) CheckPoint
10 20 (6.99%) Arista
10 20 (6.99%) Veeam
11 19 (6.64%) Aruba
12 18 (6.29%) SolarWinds
13 16 (5.59%) NetApp
14 15 (5.24%) Meraki
15 11 (3.85%) CyberArk
16 10 (3.50%) Zscaler
17 7 (2.45%) Dynatrace
17 7 (2.45%) Google
18 6 (2.10%) Remedy
311 VLAN jobs in England