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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 343 410
Rank change year-on-year -3 +67 -17
Contract jobs citing VLAN 263 138 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.58% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.67% 4.44% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 93 83
10th Percentile £300 £204 £185
25th Percentile £406 £325 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -15.57%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £525
90th Percentile £612 £623 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +4.44% +9.09% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £78.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 3,941 3,110 4,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 13.05% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,446 1,947 2,874
10th Percentile £263 £215 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +2.56% - -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 112 387
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.31 £15.41 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.52 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -8.57% +128.57%
75th Percentile £65.22 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.32 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -44 73 £450 +5.88% 47
North of England -20 66 £481 +3.49% 20
North West +10 55 £491 +3.29% 13
South East -63 41 £485 - 59
Midlands -60 31 £413 -31.82% 31
South West -13 27 £485 +61.67% 19
West Midlands -60 16 £413 +184.48% 21
East Midlands -23 14 £275 -57.69% 10
Yorkshire -56 10 £329 +34.18% 5
East of England -36 5 £540 +189.93% 11
North East - 1 - - 3
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 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.52%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (27.00%) Azure
2 34 (12.93%) AWS
3 24 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (8.37%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.04%) GCP
5 8 (3.04%) Nutanix
5 8 (3.04%) SaaS
6 7 (2.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (2.66%) IaaS
6 7 (2.66%) PaaS
7 6 (2.28%) Datadog
8 5 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.90%) Cohesity
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Stack
9 4 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.14%) GitHub
10 3 (1.14%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 158 (60.08%) Firewall
2 79 (30.04%) DNS
2 79 (30.04%) WAN
3 76 (28.90%) BGP
4 75 (28.52%) DHCP
5 74 (28.14%) OSPF
6 73 (27.76%) VPN
7 71 (27.00%) Network Security
8 68 (25.86%) LAN
9 46 (17.49%) TCP/IP
9 46 (17.49%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (15.59%) Wireless
11 28 (10.65%) SAN
11 28 (10.65%) SD-WAN
12 25 (9.51%) NX-OS
13 24 (9.13%) VXLAN
14 22 (8.37%) Structured Cabling
15 21 (7.98%) Cisco IOS
16 20 (7.60%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (7.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) MySQL
2 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.14%) Git
2 3 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) MSI
General
1 69 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (7.22%) Finance
4 12 (4.56%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.80%) Banking
5 10 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.28%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.90%) Legal
8 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.76%) Aviation
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Police
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (42.59%) Network Engineer
2 30 (11.41%) Senior
3 29 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (10.27%) Architect
5 26 (9.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 21 (7.98%) IT Engineer
7 20 (7.60%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (6.84%) IT Support
9 14 (5.32%) Network Architect
10 13 (4.94%) Cisco Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Support Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 10 (3.80%) Network Specialist
13 10 (3.80%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.42%) Analyst
15 8 (3.04%) Security Engineer
16 7 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
16 7 (2.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 7 (2.66%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.60%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.76%) cloud-init
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.76%) REST
2 2 (0.76%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.76%) XMPP
3 1 (0.38%) CSS
3 1 (0.38%) HTML
3 1 (0.38%) LAMP
3 1 (0.38%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.38%) LDAP
3 1 (0.38%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 83 (31.56%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.60%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.94%) Replication
4 9 (3.42%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.42%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.28%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.52%) Clustering
6 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.52%) SCADA
6 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.14%) PKI
8 2 (0.76%) CCTV
8 2 (0.76%) Life Science
8 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.53%) Windows
2 17 (6.46%) Linux
3 16 (6.08%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.70%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.90%) VMS
7 4 (1.52%) SUSE
7 4 (1.52%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.76%) Unix
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.38%) Debian
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.91%) Migration
2 43 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.45%) ITSM
4 37 (14.07%) Validation
5 35 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (12.93%) Network Segmentation
7 25 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (9.51%) High Availability
7 25 (9.51%) Network Monitoring
8 23 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (8.75%) Project Delivery
9 22 (8.37%) Network Design
10 21 (7.98%) ITIL
11 20 (7.60%) Change Control
12 19 (7.22%) Runbook
13 17 (6.46%) RBAC
14 14 (5.32%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (4.56%) Mentoring
16 12 (4.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.41%) Python
2 19 (7.22%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.32%) Bash
4 6 (2.28%) VBScript
5 4 (1.52%) SQL
5 4 (1.52%) VB
6 2 (0.76%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) Go
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 104 (39.54%) Security Cleared
2 87 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 78 (29.66%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (27.00%) CCNP
5 56 (21.29%) CCNA
6 18 (6.84%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (6.08%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.94%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (3.42%) CCIE
10 8 (3.04%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.04%) Degree
11 5 (1.90%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.52%) PMP
13 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.14%) CISSP
13 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.76%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.18%) SLA
2 10 (3.80%) QA
3 4 (1.52%) NCSC
4 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.14%) GxP
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) GMP
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (14.45%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (9.13%) vSphere
4 18 (6.84%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.84%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.18%) Firmware
6 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.28%) KVM
8 5 (1.90%) NFS
9 4 (1.52%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.52%) Ceph
10 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.38%) Docker
12 1 (0.38%) iptables
12 1 (0.38%) QEMU
12 1 (0.38%) RHEV
12 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.38%) SRDF
12 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (7.98%) FortiGate
2 20 (7.60%) Ansible
3 13 (4.94%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.56%) SCCM
4 12 (4.56%) Terraform
5 11 (4.18%) VxRail
6 9 (3.42%) Nagios
7 6 (2.28%) WSUS
8 5 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.14%) Iperf
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.14%) SELinux
10 2 (0.76%) Avamar
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.76%) Grafana
10 2 (0.76%) Nmap
10 2 (0.76%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 145 (55.13%) Cisco
2 51 (19.39%) Palo Alto
3 48 (18.25%) Microsoft
4 41 (15.59%) VMware
5 40 (15.21%) Fortinet
6 25 (9.51%) Juniper
7 24 (9.13%) F5
8 23 (8.75%) CheckPoint
9 21 (7.98%) Aruba
10 20 (7.60%) ServiceNow
11 18 (6.84%) SolarWinds
12 16 (6.08%) Veeam
13 14 (5.32%) Dell
14 12 (4.56%) Meraki
15 10 (3.80%) Ekahau
16 9 (3.42%) Arista
16 9 (3.42%) Zscaler
17 8 (3.04%) Citrix
18 7 (2.66%) AppDynamics
18 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace