VLAN Contracts in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 405 400
Rank change year-on-year +64 -5 +155
Contract jobs citing VLAN 144 137 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.53% 2.73% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 88 172
10th Percentile £212 £184 £220
25th Percentile £278 £259 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £431 £469
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%
75th Percentile £576 £525 £600
90th Percentile £625 £583 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £474
% change year-on-year - -5.01% +5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £30.38
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - £44.14
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +69.23% +0.78%

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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 May 2025. 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 +41 52 £430 -11.52% 46
South East +47 34 £508 +120.65% 59
North of England +4 17 £285 -44.55% 27
Midlands +28 15 £605 +142.00% 18
East of England +37 11 £188 -53.13% 24
South West +48 10 £300 - 28
Yorkshire +1 10 £243 -53.81% 8
West Midlands +16 8 £145 -27.50% 10
East Midlands +14 7 £650 +100.00% 7
North West +11 7 £470 +113.64% 15
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.47%) Confluence
4 4 (2.78%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 30 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.78%) Azure
2 34 (23.61%) AWS
3 32 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (11.81%) OneDrive
5 14 (9.72%) GCP
6 8 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.86%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.08%) Datadog
9 3 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.39%) SaaS
10 2 (1.39%) Serverless
11 1 (0.69%) npm
11 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 65 (45.14%) Firewall
2 63 (43.75%) DNS
3 61 (42.36%) VPN
4 49 (34.03%) DHCP
5 47 (32.64%) BGP
6 46 (31.94%) OSPF
7 45 (31.25%) WAN
8 39 (27.08%) LAN
9 37 (25.69%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (23.61%) TCP/IP
11 32 (22.22%) Network Security
12 23 (15.97%) Wireless
13 20 (13.89%) VoIP
14 16 (11.11%) SD-WAN
15 15 (10.42%) MPLS
16 14 (9.72%) IPsec
17 13 (9.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 13 (9.03%) SAN
17 13 (9.03%) SSL
18 10 (6.94%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.39%) Looker
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.47%) JIRA
1 5 (3.47%) Robot Framework
2 3 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.39%) Maven
3 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Telecoms
4 14 (9.72%) Finance
5 11 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.08%) Legal
7 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Law
8 2 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Aviation
9 1 (0.69%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (17.36%) Network Engineer
2 16 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 15 (10.42%) Architect
3 15 (10.42%) IT Support
4 13 (9.03%) Desktop Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) Network Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Lead
6 11 (7.64%) Senior
7 10 (6.94%) Desktop Support
7 10 (6.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Analyst
9 7 (4.86%) Consultant
9 7 (4.86%) Designer
9 7 (4.86%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) IT Analyst
11 5 (3.47%) Automation Tester
11 5 (3.47%) Senior Support Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Telecoms Tester
11 5 (3.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.08%) LDAP
3 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.39%) YAML
4 1 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.78%) PKI
6 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.39%) Replication
8 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Clustering
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (33.33%) Windows
2 25 (17.36%) Windows 10
3 13 (9.03%) Linux
4 6 (4.17%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.78%) Check Point GAiA
5 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.08%) CentOS
6 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.39%) Debian
7 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.39%) Unix
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Solaris
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (17.36%) Customer Service
3 16 (11.11%) Migration
4 15 (10.42%) High Availability
5 11 (7.64%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (6.94%) Containerisation
6 10 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (6.94%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (6.94%) SIEM
6 10 (6.94%) Test Automation
7 9 (6.25%) Agile
8 8 (5.56%) Computer Science
8 8 (5.56%) ITIL
8 8 (5.56%) Network Design
8 8 (5.56%) TOGAF
9 7 (4.86%) Network Segmentation
9 7 (4.86%) Patch Management
9 7 (4.86%) Roadmaps
9 7 (4.86%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (4.17%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.58%) Python
2 17 (11.81%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.86%) VBScript
4 4 (2.78%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.78%) VB
5 2 (1.39%) Bash
5 2 (1.39%) C
5 2 (1.39%) C++
5 2 (1.39%) Go
5 2 (1.39%) Java
6 1 (0.69%) C#
6 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.69%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 27 (18.75%) CCNP
4 25 (17.36%) SC Cleared
5 13 (9.03%) CCNA
6 12 (8.33%) CCSA
7 10 (6.94%) CCSE
7 10 (6.94%) Degree
8 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (4.17%) CCIE
9 6 (4.17%) DBS Check
9 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.78%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.78%) JNCIE
11 4 (2.78%) MCSE
11 4 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (2.08%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.47%) NIST
2 3 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.08%) NCSC
2 3 (2.08%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.08%) QA
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (20.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.56%) Docker
3 8 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 8 (5.56%) vSphere
4 7 (4.86%) Firmware
5 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.78%) BitLocker
6 4 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (16.67%) SCCM
2 15 (10.42%) Ansible
3 13 (9.03%) AppManager
4 6 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.47%) FortiGate
5 5 (3.47%) Terraform
6 4 (2.78%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (2.78%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco UCCX
8 2 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.39%) Grafana
8 2 (1.39%) Nessus
8 2 (1.39%) Netcool
8 2 (1.39%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.69%) Nagios
9 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (45.14%) Cisco
2 46 (31.94%) Microsoft
3 33 (22.92%) VMware
4 22 (15.28%) Juniper
4 22 (15.28%) Palo Alto
5 20 (13.89%) CheckPoint
6 18 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 15 (10.42%) F5
7 15 (10.42%) Meraki
8 13 (9.03%) Ivanti
9 11 (7.64%) Fortinet
10 10 (6.94%) Google
11 7 (4.86%) Arista
12 6 (4.17%) Aruba
12 6 (4.17%) Infoblox
13 5 (3.47%) AirMagnet
13 5 (3.47%) Ekahau
13 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.78%) Veeam
15 3 (2.08%) Splunk