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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 338 350
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +167
Contract jobs citing VLAN 160 183 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.69% 4.99% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 110 115
10th Percentile £219 £234 £228
25th Percentile £356 £327 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £675 £646 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +1.33% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - £31.39
25th Percentile £33.00 - £32.36
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £51.13
75th Percentile £74.26 - £76.53
90th Percentile £84.06 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £30.25 £38.04
% change year-on-year +119.83% -20.48% +26.80%

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 3,415 3,670 5,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.81% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,209 2,151 3,235
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 112 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.42 £21.28 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.16% +35.75%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -5 48 £450 -5.66% 34
South East -18 39 £425 -5.56% 57
North of England -41 36 £475 +38.18% 45
North West -17 28 £550 +4.76% 30
Midlands -52 15 £525 -6.25% 20
West Midlands -37 12 £525 -10.63% 14
East of England -14 10 £588 +139.80% 21
Yorkshire -48 7 £300 +22.45% 10
South West -19 5 £425 +3.03% 17
North East - 4 £550 - 7
East Midlands -22 3 £463 +23.33% 6
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 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.13%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.25%) WordPress
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (35.63%) Azure
2 41 (25.63%) AWS
3 20 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.13%) GCP
5 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.13%) SaaS
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.88%) IaaS
9 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.88%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.88%) PaaS
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.63%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 95 (59.38%) Firewall
2 63 (39.38%) DNS
3 58 (36.25%) DHCP
4 53 (33.13%) BGP
4 53 (33.13%) VPN
5 52 (32.50%) TCP/IP
6 48 (30.00%) WAN
7 45 (28.13%) Network Security
8 43 (26.88%) LAN
9 40 (25.00%) OSPF
10 25 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (15.00%) Wireless
12 20 (12.50%) SD-WAN
13 15 (9.38%) MPLS
14 14 (8.75%) WLAN
15 12 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (7.50%) EIGRP
16 11 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (6.88%) Software-Defined Networking
17 10 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.63%) MySQL
2 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.25%) Git
1 2 (1.25%) Metasploit
1 2 (1.25%) sqlmap
2 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.25%) Finance
5 7 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.13%) Legal
8 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.88%) Local Government
9 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Advertising
10 2 (1.25%) Electronics
10 2 (1.25%) Law
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (34.38%) Network Engineer
2 27 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (13.13%) Support Engineer
4 14 (8.75%) Architect
4 14 (8.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
5 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (6.25%) Senior
7 9 (5.63%) Analyst
8 8 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Administrator
9 7 (4.38%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.75%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.75%) Network Architect
11 5 (3.13%) Consultant
11 5 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.13%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (0.63%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.63%) JFC
3 1 (0.63%) JSON
3 1 (0.63%) LAMP
3 1 (0.63%) LangChain
3 1 (0.63%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.63%) LDAP
3 1 (0.63%) libvirt
3 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (23.13%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (6.25%) Replication
4 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) CCTV
7 4 (2.50%) NHS
7 4 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.88%) Clustering
8 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.25%) iPad
9 2 (1.25%) iPhone
9 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (38.13%) Windows
2 32 (20.00%) Linux
3 21 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.75%) Windows 10
5 12 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (4.38%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.88%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.88%) VMS
8 2 (1.25%) Android
8 2 (1.25%) CentOS
8 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.63%) SUSE
9 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (13.75%) ITIL
4 21 (13.13%) Service Management
5 18 (11.25%) High Availability
5 18 (11.25%) Migration
5 18 (11.25%) Network Design
6 17 (10.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (10.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 16 (10.00%) ITSM
7 16 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
8 15 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (8.13%) Incident Response
10 12 (7.50%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.50%) Preventative Maintenance
11 11 (6.88%) Change Control
11 11 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (6.25%) Validation
13 9 (5.63%) Network Management
13 9 (5.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.13%) PowerShell
2 23 (14.38%) Python
3 21 (13.13%) Bash
4 7 (4.38%) Perl
4 7 (4.38%) VBScript
5 5 (3.13%) VB
6 4 (2.50%) SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 52 (32.50%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (30.00%) CCNP
4 43 (26.88%) SC Cleared
5 18 (11.25%) CCNA
6 16 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 15 (9.38%) Degree
7 15 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (9.38%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (7.50%) DV Cleared
9 11 (6.88%) Server+ Certification
10 8 (5.00%) CCIE
11 6 (3.75%) CCSA
11 6 (3.75%) JNCIS
12 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
12 5 (3.13%) CCDP
12 5 (3.13%) CISSP
12 5 (3.13%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.88%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.38%) NIST
3 6 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.50%) GDPR
4 4 (2.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.25%) Firmware
5 8 (5.00%) Docker
5 8 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.75%) KVM
7 5 (3.13%) BitLocker
7 5 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.50%) vSphere
9 3 (1.88%) Ceph
10 2 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.63%) Lustre
11 1 (0.63%) NFS
11 1 (0.63%) Samba
11 1 (0.63%) Squid
11 1 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (13.13%) FortiGate
2 14 (8.75%) Ansible
3 12 (7.50%) SCCM
4 11 (6.88%) Terraform
5 7 (4.38%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.75%) Nagios
7 5 (3.13%) Nmap
8 4 (2.50%) CA Spectrum
9 3 (1.88%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.88%) Iperf
10 2 (1.25%) Nessus
10 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.63%) Grafana
11 1 (0.63%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (43.13%) Cisco
2 52 (32.50%) VMware
3 44 (27.50%) Microsoft
4 37 (23.13%) Palo Alto
5 26 (16.25%) Fortinet
6 24 (15.00%) Juniper
6 24 (15.00%) SolarWinds
7 18 (11.25%) F5
8 17 (10.63%) Dell
9 15 (9.38%) Meraki
10 12 (7.50%) CheckPoint
11 10 (6.25%) Aruba
11 10 (6.25%) Citrix
11 10 (6.25%) Red Hat
12 8 (5.00%) Veeam
13 7 (4.38%) NetApp
13 7 (4.38%) ServiceNow
14 6 (3.75%) HP
15 4 (2.50%) Zscaler
16 3 (1.88%) Okta