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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 338 383
Rank change year-on-year -34 +45 -52
Contract jobs citing VLAN 286 167 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.61% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.61% 5.17% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 111 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 £531 £584
90th Percentile £663 £660 £664
UK median daily rate £475 £446 £444
% change year-on-year +6.50% +0.51% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.47% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.85 -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £34.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +51.47% +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 4,326 3,232 3,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.73% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,038 2,247
10th Percentile £250 £220 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
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 387 166 180
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.51 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.28 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -19.34% -15.84% -10.53%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -62 83 £450 +5.88% 101
North of England -32 61 £500 +11.86% 43
South East -62 46 £488 +18.18% 73
North West -32 32 £520 +9.38% 29
South West -16 30 £495 +29.41% 25
Yorkshire -16 28 £500 +173.97% 10
Midlands -39 23 £250 -47.37% 33
East of England -26 16 £600 +34.83% 25
West Midlands -47 13 £250 -47.37% 27
East Midlands -11 10 - - 6
North East -40 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 14 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.10%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.75%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (1.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 2 (0.70%) CloudStack
6 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 5 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.92%) Azure
2 40 (13.99%) AWS
3 34 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.84%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.69%) GitHub
6 17 (5.94%) GCP
7 12 (4.20%) IaaS
8 8 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.10%) PaaS
11 5 (1.75%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.75%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.75%) SaaS
12 4 (1.40%) AWS Direct Connect
12 4 (1.40%) Datadog
12 4 (1.40%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 178 (62.24%) Firewall
2 115 (40.21%) DNS
3 105 (36.71%) BGP
4 95 (33.22%) DHCP
5 93 (32.52%) VPN
6 91 (31.82%) OSPF
7 80 (27.97%) WAN
8 65 (22.73%) TCP/IP
9 64 (22.38%) Network Security
10 62 (21.68%) LAN
11 61 (21.33%) Wireless
12 42 (14.69%) Wi-Fi
13 38 (13.29%) SD-WAN
14 36 (12.59%) Cisco Nexus
14 36 (12.59%) SAN
15 29 (10.14%) VXLAN
16 28 (9.79%) Multicast
17 26 (9.09%) IPsec
18 25 (8.74%) WLAN
19 24 (8.39%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (4.90%) JIRA
2 13 (4.55%) Git
2 13 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.10%) GitLab
4 5 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.40%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 58 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.19%) Finance
4 18 (6.29%) 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%) Law
Job Titles
1 133 (46.50%) Network Engineer
2 63 (22.03%) Senior
3 51 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (15.73%) Senior Network Engineer
5 26 (9.09%) Architect
6 18 (6.29%) Network Architect
7 17 (5.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 16 (5.59%) Cisco Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) IT Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Cisco Network 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
12 10 (3.50%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Implementation Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Network Security Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Security Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.03%) 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 98 (34.27%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.59%) PKI
4 15 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.55%) Replication
5 13 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.20%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.85%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.50%) Driving Licence
9 9 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.80%) Digital Signage
10 8 (2.80%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.45%) Life Science
11 7 (2.45%) SCADA
12 6 (2.10%) CMDB
12 6 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.75%) Robotics
13 5 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (1.40%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 80 (27.97%) Windows
2 43 (15.03%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.19%) Linux
4 12 (4.20%) 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%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.75%) Unix
9 3 (1.05%) Android
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (21.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (18.53%) Migration
3 50 (17.48%) Validation
4 48 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (15.73%) ITSM
6 40 (13.99%) Network Segmentation
7 36 (12.59%) High Availability
8 35 (12.24%) Network Design
9 33 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 32 (11.19%) ITIL
11 30 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (8.74%) Zero Trust
14 23 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (6.99%) CI/CD
15 20 (6.99%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (6.99%) Load Balancing
15 20 (6.99%) Runbook
16 19 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
16 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 91 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 66 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 56 (19.58%) CCNP
5 30 (10.49%) CCNA
6 21 (7.34%) DV Cleared
7 16 (5.59%) Degree
8 13 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.85%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (3.50%) CCIE
11 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.75%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.75%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.05%) CISM
14 3 (1.05%) CISSP
14 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.90%) 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 60 (20.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.29%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.34%) vSphere
4 16 (5.59%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.85%) Firmware
8 10 (3.50%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.45%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.10%) KVM
11 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (1.40%) NFS
13 3 (1.05%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.70%) Ceph
14 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.35%) Docker
15 1 (0.35%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.35%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (17.13%) Ansible
2 24 (8.39%) FortiGate
3 19 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.20%) SCCM
5 9 (3.15%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.15%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.80%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (2.45%) Grafana
8 6 (2.10%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.40%) Nagios
9 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.40%) systemd
9 4 (1.40%) WSUS
10 3 (1.05%) Avamar
10 3 (1.05%) vMotion
11 2 (0.70%) Iperf
11 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.70%) SELinux
11 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (58.74%) Cisco
2 75 (26.22%) 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 30 (10.49%) ServiceNow
9 25 (8.74%) CheckPoint
10 20 (6.99%) Arista
11 19 (6.64%) Aruba
11 19 (6.64%) Veeam
12 18 (6.29%) SolarWinds
13 15 (5.24%) Meraki
13 15 (5.24%) NetApp
14 11 (3.85%) CyberArk
15 10 (3.50%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.45%) Dynatrace
16 7 (2.45%) Google
17 6 (2.10%) Xerox
310 VLAN jobs in England