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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 339 371
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 -26
Contract jobs citing VLAN 304 159 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.58% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.04% 4.71% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 103 87
10th Percentile £375 £225 £250
25th Percentile £413 £360 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -0.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £589 £537 £563
90th Percentile £639 £672 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £18.50 £57.20 -
25th Percentile £33.70 £58.63 -
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.13 -
90th Percentile £76.96 £66.40 -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.49% - -

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 4,318 3,375 4,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.23% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,088 2,554
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £613
90th Percentile £688 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 170 278
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.24
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.15 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% -20.27% -0.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £49.50
% change year-on-year -43.78% -6.57% -10.00%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -48 88 £450 +12.36% 56
North of England -6 70 £500 +9.65% 21
South East -41 48 £475 +5.56% 54
North West -10 43 £519 +10.44% 9
South West -14 30 £495 +29.41% 16
Midlands -48 29 £413 -21.43% 22
Yorkshire -16 26 £488 +62.36% 10
West Midlands -54 15 £413 -7.30% 20
East Midlands -11 13 £275 -57.69% 2
East of England -20 12 £600 +60.00% 17
North East -38 1 - - 4
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 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.97%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.64%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (30.26%) Azure
2 44 (14.47%) AWS
3 38 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (10.86%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.92%) GCP
5 18 (5.92%) GitHub
6 13 (4.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (4.28%) IaaS
7 9 (2.96%) SaaS
8 8 (2.63%) PaaS
9 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.30%) Datadog
9 7 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.97%) Nutanix
10 6 (1.97%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.64%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.99%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 189 (62.17%) Firewall
2 121 (39.80%) DNS
3 109 (35.86%) BGP
4 102 (33.55%) VPN
5 101 (33.22%) OSPF
6 100 (32.89%) DHCP
7 92 (30.26%) WAN
8 72 (23.68%) LAN
9 69 (22.70%) TCP/IP
10 67 (22.04%) Network Security
11 62 (20.39%) Wireless
12 51 (16.78%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (14.47%) SAN
14 41 (13.49%) SD-WAN
15 36 (11.84%) Cisco Nexus
16 30 (9.87%) VXLAN
17 26 (8.55%) Cisco IOS
17 26 (8.55%) WLAN
18 25 (8.22%) IPsec
18 25 (8.22%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.62%) Git
3 10 (3.29%) JIRA
4 7 (2.30%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.64%) GitLab
6 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 68 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.53%) Finance
4 16 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.29%) Banking
7 10 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.30%) Police
9 7 (2.30%) Retail
10 6 (1.97%) Legal
10 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.32%) Automotive
11 4 (1.32%) Games
12 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.66%) French Language
13 2 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 141 (46.38%) Network Engineer
2 63 (20.72%) Senior
3 48 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (14.80%) Senior Network Engineer
5 32 (10.53%) Architect
6 21 (6.91%) IT Engineer
6 21 (6.91%) Network Architect
7 18 (5.92%) Cisco Engineer
8 17 (5.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 16 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 14 (4.61%) Network Specialist
11 12 (3.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.95%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) IT Support
12 11 (3.62%) Senior Network Specialist
12 11 (3.62%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.50%) Terraform
2 17 (5.59%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.99%) NETCONF
3 3 (0.99%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) .NET
4 2 (0.66%) cloud-init
4 2 (0.66%) eBPF
4 2 (0.66%) HTML
4 2 (0.66%) HTML5
4 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.66%) ODBC
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 98 (32.24%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.25%) Replication
3 18 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.26%) PKI
5 15 (4.93%) Operational Technology
5 15 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.62%) Driving Licence
8 10 (3.29%) SCADA
9 7 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.30%) Life Science
9 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.64%) Clustering
11 5 (1.64%) CMDB
11 5 (1.64%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 81 (26.64%) Windows
2 42 (13.82%) Windows Server
3 32 (10.53%) Linux
4 14 (4.61%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.97%) CentOS
7 6 (1.97%) Rocky
7 6 (1.97%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.32%) SUSE
8 4 (1.32%) Unix
8 4 (1.32%) VMS
9 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.66%) Android
11 1 (0.33%) Debian
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.74%) Migration
2 59 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 56 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (17.43%) Validation
5 48 (15.79%) ITSM
6 39 (12.83%) High Availability
7 37 (12.17%) Network Segmentation
8 34 (11.18%) ITIL
9 31 (10.20%) Project Delivery
10 30 (9.87%) Network Design
11 29 (9.54%) Disaster Recovery
12 27 (8.88%) Zero Trust
13 26 (8.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (6.91%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (6.58%) DevOps
16 20 (6.58%) Runbook
17 19 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
18 17 (5.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.11%) Python
2 34 (11.18%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.26%) Bash
4 6 (1.97%) VB
4 6 (1.97%) VBScript
5 5 (1.64%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.32%) SQL
7 2 (0.66%) Java
7 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 101 (33.22%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.64%) Cisco Certification
3 75 (24.67%) SC Cleared
4 69 (22.70%) CCNP
5 46 (15.13%) CCNA
6 21 (6.91%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.92%) Degree
8 17 (5.59%) Network+ Certification
9 14 (4.61%) Server+ Certification
10 13 (4.28%) Azure Certification
11 10 (3.29%) CCIE
12 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.64%) JNCIS
14 4 (1.32%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.99%) CISM
15 3 (0.99%) CISSP
15 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.28%) QA
1 13 (4.28%) SLA
2 6 (1.97%) GxP
2 6 (1.97%) NCSC
2 6 (1.97%) NIST
3 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.32%) NIST 800
5 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) GMP
6 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 61 (20.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (14.47%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.24%) vSphere
4 19 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.92%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.93%) Firmware
8 11 (3.62%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.30%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.64%) KVM
11 4 (1.32%) NFS
12 3 (0.99%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.66%) Ceph
14 1 (0.33%) Docker
14 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.33%) QEMU
14 1 (0.33%) Snort
14 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (16.12%) Ansible
2 23 (7.57%) FortiGate
3 22 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (4.93%) SCCM
5 12 (3.95%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.63%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.97%) NetBackup
7 6 (1.97%) WSUS
8 5 (1.64%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.64%) Grafana
8 5 (1.64%) Nagios
9 4 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.32%) systemd
9 4 (1.32%) VxRail
10 3 (0.99%) Avamar
10 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.99%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.66%) SELinux
11 2 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 173 (56.91%) Cisco
2 79 (25.99%) VMware
3 69 (22.70%) Microsoft
4 57 (18.75%) Fortinet
5 51 (16.78%) Palo Alto
6 43 (14.14%) F5
7 32 (10.53%) CheckPoint
8 31 (10.20%) Juniper
9 29 (9.54%) ServiceNow
10 25 (8.22%) Aruba
11 19 (6.25%) Arista
12 17 (5.59%) SolarWinds
12 17 (5.59%) Veeam
13 11 (3.62%) CyberArk
13 11 (3.62%) Meraki
13 11 (3.62%) Zscaler
14 10 (3.29%) Dynatrace
14 10 (3.29%) Ekahau
14 10 (3.29%) NetApp
15 8 (2.63%) Dell
161 VLAN jobs in England