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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 337 407
Rank change year-on-year -8 +70 -23
Contract jobs citing VLAN 270 135 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.77% 4.33% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 90 91
10th Percentile £300 £201 £190
25th Percentile £410 £325 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £569 £569 £538
90th Percentile £614 £616 £663
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +4.44% +2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% - -
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile £78.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +28.70% +4.55% +73.91%

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 3,991 3,115 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.56% 13.07% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,474 1,948 2,910
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 116 387
10th Percentile £16.45 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +131.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £28.44 £40.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.78% +1.25% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -42 73 £450 +5.88% 46
North of England -13 70 £481 +3.49% 21
North West +12 57 £500 +5.26% 13
South East -50 40 £485 - 61
Midlands -48 32 £413 -31.82% 31
South West -3 28 £495 +65.00% 17
West Midlands -55 17 £413 +184.48% 22
East Midlands -19 14 £275 -57.69% 9
Yorkshire -49 12 £329 +46.11% 6
East of England -34 5 £540 +189.93% 11
North East - 1 - - 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 13 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.93%) Azure
2 33 (12.22%) AWS
3 24 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (8.15%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.33%) IaaS
6 8 (2.96%) GCP
6 8 (2.96%) Nutanix
7 7 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.59%) PaaS
7 7 (2.59%) SaaS
8 6 (2.22%) Datadog
9 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.85%) Cohesity
9 5 (1.85%) GitHub
10 4 (1.48%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.74%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 161 (59.63%) Firewall
2 84 (31.11%) DNS
3 82 (30.37%) BGP
3 82 (30.37%) WAN
4 79 (29.26%) OSPF
5 77 (28.52%) DHCP
6 74 (27.41%) VPN
7 72 (26.67%) Network Security
8 68 (25.19%) LAN
9 47 (17.41%) TCP/IP
10 46 (17.04%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (15.93%) Wireless
12 31 (11.48%) SD-WAN
13 30 (11.11%) SAN
14 27 (10.00%) NX-OS
15 26 (9.63%) VXLAN
16 24 (8.89%) Cisco IOS
16 24 (8.89%) Structured Cabling
17 21 (7.78%) MPLS
18 20 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Chocolatey
2 5 (1.85%) JIRA
3 3 (1.11%) Git
3 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 72 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (7.04%) Finance
4 13 (4.81%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.70%) Banking
5 10 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.85%) Legal
9 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.74%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Law
11 2 (0.74%) Police
11 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (43.33%) Network Engineer
2 31 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (11.48%) Senior
3 29 (10.74%) Architect
4 27 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) IT Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) Senior Network Engineer
6 18 (6.67%) IT Support
7 15 (5.56%) Network Architect
8 14 (5.19%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.07%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (4.07%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.07%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.33%) Analyst
12 8 (2.96%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.96%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 8 (2.96%) Senior Network Specialist
13 7 (2.59%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.41%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.11%) REST
3 2 (0.74%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.74%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.74%) XMPP
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.81%) Replication
4 9 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.48%) Clustering
7 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.48%) SCADA
7 4 (1.48%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.11%) PKI
9 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.63%) Windows
2 15 (5.56%) Linux
2 15 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 15 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.85%) VMS
5 4 (1.48%) SUSE
5 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Debian
8 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.74%) Migration
2 43 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (14.81%) ITSM
4 37 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (13.70%) Network Segmentation
5 36 (13.33%) Validation
6 28 (10.37%) High Availability
6 28 (10.37%) Network Monitoring
7 26 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.26%) Network Design
9 24 (8.89%) Project Delivery
10 22 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (7.78%) ITIL
12 19 (7.04%) Change Control
12 19 (7.04%) Runbook
13 17 (6.30%) RBAC
14 14 (5.19%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (4.81%) SIEM
15 13 (4.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 31 (11.48%) Python
2 18 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.81%) Bash
4 6 (2.22%) VBScript
5 4 (1.48%) SQL
5 4 (1.48%) VB
6 2 (0.74%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.37%) Go
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 91 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 82 (30.37%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (27.41%) CCNP
5 60 (22.22%) CCNA
6 20 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (5.93%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.56%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (3.33%) CCIE
10 8 (2.96%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.96%) Degree
11 5 (1.85%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.48%) PMP
13 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.11%) CISSP
13 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.74%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) SLA
2 10 (3.70%) QA
3 4 (1.48%) NCSC
4 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.11%) GxP
4 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.11%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) GMP
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 37 (13.70%) Active Directory
2 30 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.89%) vSphere
4 18 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.07%) Firmware
6 9 (3.33%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.85%) KVM
8 4 (1.48%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.48%) NFS
9 3 (1.11%) Ceph
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.37%) Docker
11 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.37%) RHEV
11 1 (0.37%) Snort
11 1 (0.37%) SRDF
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (7.41%) FortiGate
2 19 (7.04%) Ansible
3 13 (4.81%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.44%) SCCM
5 11 (4.07%) Terraform
5 11 (4.07%) VxRail
6 9 (3.33%) Nagios
7 6 (2.22%) WSUS
8 5 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.11%) Iperf
9 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.74%) Grafana
10 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.74%) Nmap
10 2 (0.74%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 151 (55.93%) Cisco
2 51 (18.89%) Palo Alto
3 48 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 42 (15.56%) VMware
5 41 (15.19%) Fortinet
6 26 (9.63%) F5
7 25 (9.26%) Juniper
8 22 (8.15%) CheckPoint
8 22 (8.15%) ServiceNow
9 21 (7.78%) Aruba
10 18 (6.67%) SolarWinds
11 16 (5.93%) Veeam
12 14 (5.19%) Dell
13 12 (4.44%) Meraki
14 10 (3.70%) Arista
14 10 (3.70%) Ekahau
15 8 (2.96%) Citrix
15 8 (2.96%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.59%) AppDynamics
16 7 (2.59%) Dynatrace