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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 355 367
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -35
Contract jobs citing VLAN 292 161 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.79% 4.90% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 110 85
10th Percentile £356 £219 £258
25th Percentile £413 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -1.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £656 £662 £666
UK median daily rate £475 £447 £450
% change year-on-year +6.26% -0.67% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.90 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £42.86 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% - -
75th Percentile £64.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £63.85 -
UK median hourly rate £42.86 £34.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +26.06% +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 4,298 3,289 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.30% 11.71% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,537 2,090 2,254
10th Percentile £261 £216 £237
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £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 391 172 160
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.43
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% -40.79% +1.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -28.57% -13.26%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -60 87 £450 +3.21% 141
North of England -20 63 £500 +13.96% 49
South East -51 48 £475 +15.15% 73
North West -29 33 £519 +12.58% 31
South West -6 31 £495 +29.41% 25
Yorkshire -11 29 £488 +122.86% 13
Midlands -39 22 £400 -15.79% 32
East of England -25 17 £600 +30.43% 22
West Midlands -44 16 £400 -15.79% 23
East Midlands -15 6 - - 9
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 13 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.05%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.71%) Confluence
4 5 (1.71%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (26.03%) Azure
2 41 (14.04%) AWS
3 36 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.62%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.88%) GitHub
6 18 (6.16%) GCP
7 12 (4.11%) IaaS
8 8 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.05%) Cohesity
9 6 (2.05%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.05%) PaaS
10 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.71%) SaaS
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (1.37%) Datadog
11 4 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.03%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 183 (62.67%) Firewall
2 117 (40.07%) DNS
3 105 (35.96%) BGP
4 97 (33.22%) VPN
5 94 (32.19%) DHCP
6 91 (31.16%) OSPF
7 84 (28.77%) WAN
8 76 (26.03%) TCP/IP
9 65 (22.26%) LAN
10 63 (21.58%) Network Security
11 61 (20.89%) Wireless
12 43 (14.73%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (13.36%) SD-WAN
14 37 (12.67%) Cisco Nexus
15 35 (11.99%) SAN
16 28 (9.59%) VXLAN
17 27 (9.25%) IPsec
18 26 (8.90%) Multicast
18 26 (8.90%) WLAN
19 22 (7.53%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (5.82%) Git
2 16 (5.48%) JIRA
3 15 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.40%) GitLab
5 5 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.37%) Chocolatey
7 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (12.67%) Finance
3 17 (5.82%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (5.14%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.45%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.11%) Banking
7 11 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.05%) Police
9 6 (2.05%) Retail
10 4 (1.37%) Automotive
10 4 (1.37%) Games
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.68%) French Language
12 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (46.58%) Network Engineer
2 60 (20.55%) Senior
3 48 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (14.73%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (8.22%) Architect
6 18 (6.16%) Network Architect
7 16 (5.48%) Cisco Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 14 (4.79%) IT Engineer
10 13 (4.45%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.11%) Network Specialist
12 11 (3.77%) IT Support
12 11 (3.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.42%) Senior Network Specialist
14 8 (2.74%) Implementation Engineer
14 8 (2.74%) Network Security Engineer
14 8 (2.74%) Security Architect
14 8 (2.74%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.73%) Terraform
2 14 (4.79%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.71%) JSON
3 5 (1.71%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.71%) REST
4 3 (1.03%) .NET
4 3 (1.03%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.68%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.68%) eBPF
5 2 (0.68%) gRPC
5 2 (0.68%) HTML
5 2 (0.68%) HTML5
5 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.68%) ODBC
5 2 (0.68%) YAML
6 1 (0.34%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.22%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.14%) PKI
4 14 (4.79%) Replication
5 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.11%) Operational Technology
6 12 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.77%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.42%) Driving Licence
8 10 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (3.08%) CMDB
10 8 (2.74%) Digital Signage
11 7 (2.40%) Life Science
11 7 (2.40%) SCADA
12 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (2.05%) IoT
12 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 79 (27.05%) Windows
2 44 (15.07%) Windows Server
3 34 (11.64%) Linux
4 11 (3.77%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.05%) CentOS
7 6 (2.05%) Rocky
7 6 (2.05%) Unix
7 6 (2.05%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.37%) Android
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) Debian
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (18.49%) Migration
2 54 (18.49%) Validation
3 48 (16.44%) ITSM
4 47 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (13.70%) Network Segmentation
6 35 (11.99%) High Availability
6 35 (11.99%) Network Design
7 34 (11.64%) Project Delivery
8 31 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (10.62%) ITIL
9 27 (9.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 25 (8.56%) Zero Trust
11 23 (7.88%) CI/CD
11 23 (7.88%) Runbook
12 22 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.19%) Load Balancing
14 20 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
15 19 (6.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.12%) Python
2 36 (12.33%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.79%) Bash
4 7 (2.40%) VBScript
5 6 (2.05%) VB
6 5 (1.71%) ActionScript
7 3 (1.03%) Java
8 2 (0.68%) SQL
8 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Bicep
9 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 85 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.26%) Cisco Certification
3 62 (21.23%) SC Cleared
4 54 (18.49%) CCNP
5 29 (9.93%) CCNA
6 22 (7.53%) DV Cleared
7 16 (5.48%) Degree
8 12 (4.11%) Network+ Certification
9 10 (3.42%) CCIE
10 9 (3.08%) Server+ Certification
11 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.71%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.71%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.03%) CISM
14 3 (1.03%) CISSP
14 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.14%) QA
2 11 (3.77%) SLA
3 7 (2.40%) NIST
4 6 (2.05%) GxP
4 6 (2.05%) NCSC
5 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.37%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.68%) GDPR
7 2 (0.68%) GMP
7 2 (0.68%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 62 (21.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 23 (7.88%) vSphere
4 17 (5.82%) Hyper-V
5 16 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.77%) Firmware
7 10 (3.42%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.40%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.05%) KVM
10 5 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.37%) NFS
11 4 (1.37%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.68%) Ceph
12 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.34%) Docker
13 1 (0.34%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 53 (18.15%) Ansible
2 24 (8.22%) FortiGate
3 18 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.45%) SCCM
5 11 (3.77%) Cisco Prime
6 10 (3.42%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.42%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.74%) Grafana
8 6 (2.05%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.37%) Nagios
9 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.37%) systemd
10 3 (1.03%) Avamar
10 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.03%) vMotion
10 3 (1.03%) WSUS
11 2 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.68%) SELinux
11 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (57.53%) Cisco
2 77 (26.37%) VMware
3 67 (22.95%) Microsoft
4 55 (18.84%) Fortinet
5 51 (17.47%) F5
6 47 (16.10%) Palo Alto
7 36 (12.33%) Juniper
8 31 (10.62%) ServiceNow
9 26 (8.90%) CheckPoint
10 22 (7.53%) Arista
11 20 (6.85%) Aruba
11 20 (6.85%) Veeam
12 18 (6.16%) SolarWinds
13 16 (5.48%) Meraki
13 16 (5.48%) NetApp
14 12 (4.11%) CyberArk
15 10 (3.42%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.74%) Dynatrace
16 8 (2.74%) Splunk
17 7 (2.40%) Google