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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 338 409
Rank change year-on-year -24 +71 -21
Contract jobs citing VLAN 229 148 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.61% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.01% 4.62% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 103 94
10th Percentile £263 £223 £186
25th Percentile £405 £293 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -13.46%
75th Percentile £569 £572 £521
90th Percentile £612 £623 £589
UK median daily rate £470 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +10.59% +6.25% -15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £80.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +69.23%

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 3,810 3,202 5,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.74% 13.15% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 2,011 3,148
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £485
% change year-on-year +2.04% +1.14% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 123 396
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.77 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -6.25% +110.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £69.32
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.88% -6.25% +110.53%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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
North of England -18 65 £500 +53.85% 35
London -63 63 £473 +9.88% 36
North West +20 56 £508 +9.14% 24
South East -53 37 £500 -1.48% 43
Midlands -46 31 £413 -31.82% 24
West Midlands -49 19 £469 +223.28% 21
South West -30 13 £475 +33.33% 13
East Midlands -36 11 £275 -57.69% 3
Yorkshire -51 9 £363 +47.96% 8
East of England -36 5 £540 +188.00% 12
North East - 3 £550 - 3
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 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.93%) Skype for Business
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 75 (32.75%) Azure
2 36 (15.72%) AWS
3 25 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.99%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.11%) GCP
6 13 (5.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (3.93%) IaaS
7 9 (3.93%) PaaS
7 9 (3.93%) SaaS
8 8 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.62%) Datadog
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.75%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.75%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.31%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 142 (62.01%) Firewall
2 79 (34.50%) VPN
3 78 (34.06%) WAN
4 76 (33.19%) DNS
5 70 (30.57%) BGP
5 70 (30.57%) DHCP
6 69 (30.13%) LAN
7 66 (28.82%) Network Security
8 60 (26.20%) OSPF
9 50 (21.83%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (20.96%) TCP/IP
11 34 (14.85%) Wireless
12 28 (12.23%) SD-WAN
13 24 (10.48%) MPLS
14 18 (7.86%) Cisco ISE
15 17 (7.42%) SAN
15 17 (7.42%) WLAN
16 16 (6.99%) VXLAN
17 15 (6.55%) EIGRP
18 13 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.44%) MySQL
2 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (0.87%) Git
2 2 (0.87%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.44%) MSI
General
1 61 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.99%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.11%) Finance
4 14 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.37%) Banking
7 7 (3.06%) Legal
8 6 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.87%) Aviation
11 2 (0.87%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (41.05%) Network Engineer
2 25 (10.92%) Architect
3 24 (10.48%) Senior
4 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (9.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 16 (6.99%) IT Engineer
7 14 (6.11%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) IT Support
8 13 (5.68%) Network Architect
9 11 (4.80%) Analyst
10 10 (4.37%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 8 (3.49%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.06%) IT Analyst
13 7 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.62%) IT Support Analyst
14 6 (2.62%) Operations Engineer
14 6 (2.62%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.17%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.87%) REST
2 2 (0.87%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.87%) XMPP
3 1 (0.44%) CSS
3 1 (0.44%) HTML
3 1 (0.44%) LAMP
3 1 (0.44%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.44%) LDAP
3 1 (0.44%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 63 (27.51%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.93%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.06%) Replication
5 6 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.62%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.75%) Clustering
6 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.31%) PKI
7 3 (1.31%) SCADA
7 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.87%) CCTV
8 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 65 (28.38%) Windows
2 22 (9.61%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.73%) Windows 10
4 18 (7.86%) Linux
5 14 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.93%) Windows 7
7 5 (2.18%) VMS
8 4 (1.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.78%) Migration
2 41 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (17.47%) ITSM
4 29 (12.66%) High Availability
4 29 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (11.79%) Validation
6 25 (10.92%) Network Design
7 23 (10.04%) Network Monitoring
7 23 (10.04%) Network Segmentation
8 22 (9.61%) Change Control
8 22 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (8.73%) ITIL
10 20 (8.73%) Project Delivery
11 18 (7.86%) Service Management
12 17 (7.42%) Runbook
13 15 (6.55%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (6.55%) Zero Trust
14 12 (5.24%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.28%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.54%) Python
3 20 (8.73%) Bash
4 13 (5.68%) VBScript
5 9 (3.93%) VB
6 7 (3.06%) Perl
7 6 (2.62%) SQL
8 1 (0.44%) Go
8 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 97 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.50%) SC Cleared
3 77 (33.62%) Cisco Certification
4 70 (30.57%) CCNP
5 52 (22.71%) CCNA
6 18 (7.86%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.11%) CCIE
7 14 (6.11%) Degree
8 12 (5.24%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.80%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (3.06%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.62%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.62%) Server+ Certification
12 5 (2.18%) CISSP
12 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.75%) CCDP
13 4 (1.75%) ISTQB
14 3 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (1.31%) CCSP
14 3 (1.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.37%) SLA
2 7 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.18%) GDPR
3 5 (2.18%) NIST
3 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.75%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (19.21%) Active Directory
2 30 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.73%) vSphere
4 17 (7.42%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.24%) Firmware
6 9 (3.93%) BitLocker
6 9 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.06%) Hyper-V
8 6 (2.62%) VMware NSX
9 5 (2.18%) KVM
10 4 (1.75%) Docker
11 3 (1.31%) Ceph
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.44%) iptables
13 1 (0.44%) QEMU
13 1 (0.44%) RHEV
13 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.44%) SRDF
13 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (9.17%) SCCM
2 19 (8.30%) Ansible
3 18 (7.86%) FortiGate
4 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.68%) Terraform
4 13 (5.68%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.80%) VxRail
6 9 (3.93%) Nagios
7 5 (2.18%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.75%) WSUS
9 3 (1.31%) Iperf
9 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.87%) Grafana
10 2 (0.87%) Nmap
10 2 (0.87%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (49.34%) Cisco
2 55 (24.02%) Microsoft
3 49 (21.40%) Palo Alto
4 40 (17.47%) VMware
5 36 (15.72%) Fortinet
6 22 (9.61%) Juniper
7 20 (8.73%) Aruba
8 19 (8.30%) SolarWinds
9 17 (7.42%) CheckPoint
10 16 (6.99%) ServiceNow
11 15 (6.55%) Meraki
12 14 (6.11%) F5
13 13 (5.68%) Dell
14 12 (5.24%) Veeam
15 10 (4.37%) Ekahau
16 9 (3.93%) Citrix
16 9 (3.93%) Red Hat
17 8 (3.49%) Arista
18 7 (3.06%) Dynatrace
18 7 (3.06%) Zscaler