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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 346 370
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing VLAN 208 144 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.79% 4.23% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 92 109
10th Percentile £219 £223 £190
25th Percentile £356 £296 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% +3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £530
90th Percentile £601 £624 £606
UK median daily rate £453 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +7.86% -6.67% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile - - £48.82
25th Percentile £12.43 - £66.11
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £30.25 £76.53
% change year-on-year +12.40% -60.47% +135.48%

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 3,590 3,405 5,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.18% 13.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,318 2,028 3,143
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -4.45% +3.63% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 101 362
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.22% +130.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -27.78% +131.96%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -25 58 £460 +2.22% 36
North of England -24 57 £481 +48.08% 26
North West -4 45 £500 +11.11% 17
South East -31 42 £456 -19.29% 39
Midlands -53 18 £475 -19.14% 9
West Midlands -49 15 £525 -10.63% 6
Yorkshire -55 12 £363 +49.48% 8
South West -39 10 £400 -3.03% 18
East of England -21 9 £475 +156.76% 15
East Midlands -28 3 £275 -56.69% 3
North East - 3 £550 - 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 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.33%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.40%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.65%) Azure
2 40 (19.23%) AWS
3 24 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.21%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.77%) GCP
6 7 (3.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (3.37%) IaaS
6 7 (3.37%) PaaS
7 6 (2.88%) SaaS
8 5 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.92%) Datadog
10 3 (1.44%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.96%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.48%) Akamai
12 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.48%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 125 (60.10%) Firewall
2 70 (33.65%) VPN
3 68 (32.69%) DNS
4 66 (31.73%) DHCP
5 65 (31.25%) WAN
6 64 (30.77%) LAN
7 56 (26.92%) Network Security
8 54 (25.96%) TCP/IP
9 52 (25.00%) BGP
10 48 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (19.23%) OSPF
12 28 (13.46%) MPLS
13 25 (12.02%) Wireless
14 20 (9.62%) SD-WAN
15 16 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (6.25%) WLAN
17 12 (5.77%) EIGRP
17 12 (5.77%) IPsec
18 11 (5.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.48%) MySQL
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.96%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.96%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.96%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.48%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.73%) Telecoms
4 11 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (5.29%) Finance
5 6 (2.88%) Banking
5 6 (2.88%) Legal
6 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.92%) Local Government
6 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.96%) Aviation
8 2 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (36.54%) Network Engineer
2 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.10%) Support Engineer
4 20 (9.62%) Architect
5 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 16 (7.69%) Senior
7 14 (6.73%) Analyst
8 12 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support
8 12 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) IT Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) IT Support
10 9 (4.33%) Network Architect
11 8 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) IT Analyst
12 7 (3.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.88%) IT Support Analyst
13 6 (2.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.73%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.44%) Middleware
3 2 (0.96%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.96%) XMPP
4 1 (0.48%) CSS
4 1 (0.48%) HTML
4 1 (0.48%) LAMP
4 1 (0.48%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.48%) LDAP
4 1 (0.48%) libvirt
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.85%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.88%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.92%) CCTV
7 4 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.44%) NHS
8 3 (1.44%) SCADA
8 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.96%) PKI
10 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.48%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 70 (33.65%) Windows
2 30 (14.42%) Linux
3 18 (8.65%) Windows Server
4 17 (8.17%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.33%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (16.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (14.90%) Migration
4 28 (13.46%) ITSM
4 28 (13.46%) Service Management
5 27 (12.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (12.50%) ITIL
7 25 (12.02%) Network Design
8 24 (11.54%) Network Monitoring
9 20 (9.62%) Change Control
10 19 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (8.65%) High Availability
11 18 (8.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 15 (7.21%) Network Segmentation
12 15 (7.21%) Validation
13 13 (6.25%) Incident Response
14 12 (5.77%) Project Delivery
14 12 (5.77%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (5.29%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.90%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.06%) Python
3 22 (10.58%) Bash
4 13 (6.25%) VBScript
5 9 (4.33%) VB
6 8 (3.85%) Perl
7 4 (1.92%) SQL
8 1 (0.48%) Go
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 85 (40.87%) Security Cleared
2 69 (33.17%) SC Cleared
3 66 (31.73%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (27.88%) CCNP
5 40 (19.23%) CCNA
6 18 (8.65%) Azure Certification
6 18 (8.65%) Degree
6 18 (8.65%) Network+ Certification
7 17 (8.17%) DV Cleared
7 17 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (6.25%) CCIE
9 12 (5.77%) Server+ Certification
10 7 (3.37%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.88%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.88%) CCDP
12 5 (2.40%) CISSP
12 5 (2.40%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.92%) ISTQB
14 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) SLA
2 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.40%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) NIST
3 5 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.92%) NCSC
5 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.96%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 41 (19.71%) Active Directory
2 38 (18.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.13%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (4.81%) vSphere
5 9 (4.33%) BitLocker
6 8 (3.85%) Docker
7 6 (2.88%) Firmware
7 6 (2.88%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.40%) KVM
9 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.44%) Ceph
11 1 (0.48%) iptables
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.48%) QEMU
11 1 (0.48%) RHEV
11 1 (0.48%) Samba
11 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.48%) SRDF
11 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (9.62%) SCCM
2 18 (8.65%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.25%) Ansible
4 10 (4.81%) Terraform
5 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.33%) Nagios
5 9 (4.33%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.37%) VxRail
7 6 (2.88%) Nmap
8 5 (2.40%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.92%) Iperf
10 3 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.96%) Nessus
11 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.48%) SELinux
12 1 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 91 (43.75%) Cisco
2 61 (29.33%) Microsoft
3 49 (23.56%) VMware
4 47 (22.60%) Palo Alto
5 24 (11.54%) Fortinet
6 21 (10.10%) SolarWinds
7 20 (9.62%) Juniper
8 18 (8.65%) Dell
9 16 (7.69%) Aruba
10 14 (6.73%) Meraki
11 12 (5.77%) CheckPoint
11 12 (5.77%) F5
11 12 (5.77%) ServiceNow
12 10 (4.81%) Citrix
12 10 (4.81%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.85%) Veeam
13 8 (3.85%) Zscaler
14 7 (3.37%) HP
15 5 (2.40%) Ekahau
15 5 (2.40%) Tenable