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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 340 381
Rank change year-on-year -24 +41 +42
Contract jobs citing VLAN 206 142 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.80% 4.16% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 92 107
10th Percentile £215 £223 £190
25th Percentile £350 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £428 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% +6.88% -12.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £525
90th Percentile £604 £625 £612
UK median daily rate £453 £425 £406
% change year-on-year +6.59% +4.62% -14.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £12.43 - £33.80
25th Percentile £17.57 - £48.82
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £76.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £30.25 £67.27
% change year-on-year +12.40% -55.03% +106.97%

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 3,554 3,415 5,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.17% 13.21% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 2,031 3,168
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 100 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.94 £20.30 £20.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £33.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -28.95% +138.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.88 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.62% -31.58% +143.59%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -19 58 £470 +4.44% 42
North of England -23 56 £481 +48.08% 29
North West 0 43 £525 +16.67% 19
South East -27 41 £456 -20.00% 44
Midlands -49 18 £475 -19.14% 8
West Midlands -49 15 £525 -10.63% 6
Yorkshire -56 13 £363 +49.48% 8
South West -34 10 £400 -3.03% 21
East of England -19 9 £475 +155.03% 17
East Midlands -24 3 £275 -56.69% 2
North East - 3 £550 - 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 12 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.37%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.43%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.97%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.47%) Azure
2 40 (19.42%) AWS
3 26 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.28%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.80%) GCP
6 7 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (2.91%) IaaS
7 6 (2.91%) PaaS
8 5 (2.43%) SaaS
8 5 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.46%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.46%) Datadog
10 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.97%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.97%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.49%) Akamai
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 121 (58.74%) Firewall
2 68 (33.01%) VPN
3 67 (32.52%) DNS
4 65 (31.55%) DHCP
5 63 (30.58%) WAN
6 61 (29.61%) LAN
7 56 (27.18%) Network Security
8 52 (25.24%) BGP
9 51 (24.76%) TCP/IP
10 44 (21.36%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (18.93%) OSPF
12 28 (13.59%) MPLS
13 23 (11.17%) Wireless
14 20 (9.71%) SD-WAN
15 16 (7.77%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (6.31%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (6.31%) IPsec
17 12 (5.83%) EIGRP
17 12 (5.83%) WLAN
18 11 (5.34%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.49%) MySQL
2 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.97%) Git
2 2 (0.97%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.97%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.28%) Telecoms
4 14 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.83%) Finance
6 11 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Legal
8 5 (2.43%) Banking
9 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.94%) Local Government
9 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Aviation
11 2 (0.97%) Electronics
11 2 (0.97%) Law
11 2 (0.97%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (34.95%) Network Engineer
2 28 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (10.68%) Support Engineer
4 20 (9.71%) Architect
5 16 (7.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 16 (7.77%) Senior
6 14 (6.80%) Analyst
7 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) IT Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) IT Support
10 9 (4.37%) Network Architect
10 9 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Cisco Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.40%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.91%) Consultant
12 6 (2.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.34%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.94%) Middleware
3 2 (0.97%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.97%) XMPP
4 1 (0.49%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.49%) CSS
4 1 (0.49%) HTML
4 1 (0.49%) JSON
4 1 (0.49%) LAMP
4 1 (0.49%) LangChain
4 1 (0.49%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.49%) LDAP
4 1 (0.49%) libvirt
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.49%) REST
4 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.30%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.88%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.91%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.94%) CCTV
7 4 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.94%) NHS
7 4 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.46%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.46%) SCADA
8 3 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.97%) PKI
9 2 (0.97%) Replication
10 1 (0.49%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 71 (34.47%) Windows
2 31 (15.05%) Linux
3 20 (9.71%) Windows Server
4 18 (8.74%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.37%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.46%) VMS
8 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.49%) Unix
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (15.05%) Migration
4 28 (13.59%) Service Management
5 27 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (13.11%) ITSM
6 26 (12.62%) ITIL
7 25 (12.14%) Network Design
8 21 (10.19%) Network Monitoring
9 20 (9.71%) Change Control
10 19 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (9.22%) High Availability
11 18 (8.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 16 (7.77%) Validation
13 15 (7.28%) Network Segmentation
14 13 (6.31%) Incident Response
15 12 (5.83%) Project Delivery
16 11 (5.34%) Containerisation
16 11 (5.34%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.05%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.65%) Python
3 22 (10.68%) Bash
4 13 (6.31%) VBScript
5 9 (4.37%) VB
6 8 (3.88%) Perl
7 4 (1.94%) SQL
8 1 (0.49%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (39.32%) Security Cleared
2 65 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 62 (30.10%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (26.70%) CCNP
5 37 (17.96%) CCNA
6 18 (8.74%) Azure Certification
7 17 (8.25%) DV Cleared
7 17 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (8.25%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (7.28%) Degree
9 13 (6.31%) CCIE
10 12 (5.83%) Server+ Certification
11 7 (3.40%) JNCIS
12 6 (2.91%) AWS Certification
12 6 (2.91%) CCDP
13 5 (2.43%) CISSP
13 5 (2.43%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.94%) ISTQB
15 3 (1.46%) CCSP
15 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) SLA
2 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.91%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.43%) GDPR
3 5 (2.43%) NIST
4 4 (1.94%) NCSC
5 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.97%) QA
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) GxP
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 42 (20.39%) Active Directory
2 39 (18.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.71%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.34%) vSphere
5 10 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.37%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.88%) Docker
8 6 (2.91%) Firmware
8 6 (2.91%) KVM
8 6 (2.91%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.46%) Ceph
11 1 (0.49%) iptables
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.49%) NFS
11 1 (0.49%) QEMU
11 1 (0.49%) RHEV
11 1 (0.49%) Samba
11 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.49%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 20 (9.71%) SCCM
2 18 (8.74%) FortiGate
3 15 (7.28%) Ansible
4 12 (5.83%) Terraform
5 9 (4.37%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.88%) Nagios
7 7 (3.40%) VxRail
8 6 (2.91%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.91%) Nmap
9 4 (1.94%) Iperf
10 3 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.46%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.97%) Nessus
11 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.49%) SELinux
12 1 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 90 (43.69%) Cisco
2 62 (30.10%) Microsoft
3 50 (24.27%) VMware
4 45 (21.84%) Palo Alto
5 24 (11.65%) Fortinet
6 20 (9.71%) Juniper
6 20 (9.71%) SolarWinds
7 18 (8.74%) Dell
8 14 (6.80%) Meraki
9 13 (6.31%) Aruba
10 12 (5.83%) F5
10 12 (5.83%) ServiceNow
11 11 (5.34%) Citrix
12 10 (4.85%) Red Hat
13 9 (4.37%) CheckPoint
14 8 (3.88%) Veeam
14 8 (3.88%) Zscaler
15 7 (3.40%) HP
16 4 (1.94%) ADVA
16 4 (1.94%) Nokia