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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 324 394
Rank change year-on-year -49 +70 -3
Contract jobs citing VLAN 222 149 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.90% 4.63% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 104 99
10th Percentile £263 £223 £189
25th Percentile £400 £300 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% +8.13% -12.27%
75th Percentile £569 £585 £521
90th Percentile £621 £625 £584
UK median daily rate £465 £433 £413
% change year-on-year +7.51% +4.85% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £75.38 - -
90th Percentile £81.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £65.77
% change year-on-year - - +102.35%

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 3,762 3,218 5,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.91% 13.27% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,010 3,174
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £385 £363 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 378
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%
75th Percentile £66.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +96.89%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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
North of England -22 65 £481 +48.08% 35
London -33 65 £473 +5.00% 36
North West +5 54 £500 +11.11% 24
South East -50 38 £500 -11.50% 43
Midlands -64 26 £413 -29.78% 24
West Midlands -48 18 £469 -19.60% 21
South West -28 12 £475 +15.15% 13
Yorkshire -52 11 £363 +47.96% 8
East Midlands -32 7 £275 -57.69% 3
East of England -36 4 £540 +189.93% 12
North East - 3 £550 - 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 15 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.05%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.78%) Azure
2 36 (16.22%) AWS
3 27 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.31%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.31%) GCP
5 13 (5.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (4.05%) IaaS
6 9 (4.05%) PaaS
6 9 (4.05%) SaaS
7 8 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.70%) Datadog
9 4 (1.80%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (1.80%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.35%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.35%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 138 (62.16%) Firewall
2 78 (35.14%) WAN
3 77 (34.68%) VPN
4 71 (31.98%) DNS
5 70 (31.53%) LAN
6 66 (29.73%) Network Security
7 65 (29.28%) BGP
8 64 (28.83%) DHCP
9 55 (24.77%) OSPF
10 52 (23.42%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (22.52%) TCP/IP
12 33 (14.86%) Wireless
13 26 (11.71%) SD-WAN
14 24 (10.81%) MPLS
15 17 (7.66%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (7.21%) WLAN
17 15 (6.76%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (6.76%) EIGRP
17 15 (6.76%) SAN
18 14 (6.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.45%) MySQL
2 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (0.90%) Git
2 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 59 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.31%) Finance
4 13 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.05%) Banking
7 8 (3.60%) Legal
8 5 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Aviation
11 2 (0.90%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (41.89%) Network Engineer
2 23 (10.36%) Architect
3 20 (9.01%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 20 (9.01%) Senior
4 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (5.86%) IT Engineer
5 13 (5.86%) IT Support
5 13 (5.86%) Network Architect
6 12 (5.41%) Analyst
7 10 (4.50%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (4.50%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 7 (3.15%) IT Analyst
10 7 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.15%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.70%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.90%) REST
2 2 (0.90%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.90%) XMPP
3 1 (0.45%) CSS
3 1 (0.45%) HTML
3 1 (0.45%) LAMP
3 1 (0.45%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.45%) LDAP
3 1 (0.45%) libvirt
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.13%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.60%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.15%) Replication
6 6 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.70%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.80%) Clustering
7 4 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.35%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) SCADA
9 2 (0.90%) CCTV
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.83%) Windows
2 21 (9.46%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.11%) Linux
3 18 (8.11%) Windows 10
4 14 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.05%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.80%) SUSE
6 4 (1.80%) VMS
7 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.37%) Migration
2 41 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (16.22%) ITSM
4 27 (12.16%) High Availability
4 27 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (11.26%) Network Design
6 24 (10.81%) Validation
7 23 (10.36%) Change Control
7 23 (10.36%) Network Monitoring
8 22 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (8.56%) ITIL
10 19 (8.56%) Network Segmentation
11 17 (7.66%) Project Delivery
11 17 (7.66%) Runbook
11 17 (7.66%) Service Management
12 16 (7.21%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (6.76%) Zero Trust
14 11 (4.95%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.77%) PowerShell
2 30 (13.51%) Python
3 20 (9.01%) Bash
4 13 (5.86%) VBScript
5 9 (4.05%) VB
6 7 (3.15%) Perl
7 6 (2.70%) SQL
8 1 (0.45%) Go
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 89 (40.09%) Security Cleared
2 76 (34.23%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (31.53%) SC Cleared
4 68 (30.63%) CCNP
5 51 (22.97%) CCNA
6 20 (9.01%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.76%) Degree
8 14 (6.31%) CCIE
9 12 (5.41%) Azure Certification
10 10 (4.50%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (3.60%) JNCIS
12 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
13 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (2.25%) CISSP
14 5 (2.25%) JNCIP
15 4 (1.80%) CCDP
15 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (1.80%) ISTQB
15 4 (1.80%) Server+ Certification
16 3 (1.35%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.50%) SLA
2 7 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.25%) GDPR
3 5 (2.25%) NIST
3 5 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.80%) NCSC
5 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) QA
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 43 (19.37%) Active Directory
2 31 (13.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.56%) vSphere
4 17 (7.66%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.41%) Firmware
6 9 (4.05%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.15%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.70%) VMware NSX
10 5 (2.25%) KVM
11 4 (1.80%) Docker
12 3 (1.35%) Ceph
13 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.45%) iptables
14 1 (0.45%) Lustre
14 1 (0.45%) NFS
14 1 (0.45%) QEMU
14 1 (0.45%) RHEV
14 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.45%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 21 (9.46%) SCCM
2 19 (8.56%) Ansible
3 18 (8.11%) FortiGate
4 15 (6.76%) vCenter Server
5 13 (5.86%) Terraform
6 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (4.95%) VxRail
8 9 (4.05%) Nagios
9 5 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.80%) Kubernetes
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.90%) Grafana
12 2 (0.90%) Iperf
12 2 (0.90%) Nmap
12 2 (0.90%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 106 (47.75%) Cisco
2 53 (23.87%) Microsoft
3 49 (22.07%) Palo Alto
4 41 (18.47%) VMware
5 32 (14.41%) Fortinet
6 23 (10.36%) Juniper
7 22 (9.91%) Aruba
8 18 (8.11%) SolarWinds
9 15 (6.76%) CheckPoint
9 15 (6.76%) Dell
10 14 (6.31%) Meraki
11 13 (5.86%) F5
11 13 (5.86%) ServiceNow
12 11 (4.95%) Veeam
13 9 (4.05%) Ekahau
13 9 (4.05%) Red Hat
14 7 (3.15%) AppDynamics
14 7 (3.15%) Citrix
14 7 (3.15%) Dynatrace
14 7 (3.15%) Tenable