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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 348 398
Rank change year-on-year +3 +50 -44
Contract jobs citing VLAN 292 158 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.92% 4.62% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 102 87
10th Percentile £361 £203 £214
25th Percentile £413 £331 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £536 £558
90th Percentile £652 £674 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.86 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.46% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.86 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.46% - -

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 4,218 3,423 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.45% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,566 2,130 2,651
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 163 306
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £48.75 £45.44
% change year-on-year -46.22% +7.28% -9.12%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -37 87 £450 +12.36% 51
North of England -33 56 £500 +9.65% 27
South East -52 45 £475 +5.56% 58
North West -25 37 £575 +22.34% 18
South West -11 32 £495 +130.23% 17
Midlands -51 29 £413 -7.30% 21
Yorkshire -28 18 £475 +58.20% 6
East Midlands -5 14 £275 -57.69% 7
West Midlands -59 14 £413 +13.01% 14
East of England -23 13 £600 +152.63% 15
North East -46 1 - - 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 11 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.68%) Apache
4 2 (0.68%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 86 (29.45%) Azure
2 40 (13.70%) AWS
3 32 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.62%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.82%) GCP
6 15 (5.14%) GitHub
7 14 (4.79%) IaaS
8 12 (4.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (3.08%) PaaS
9 9 (3.08%) SaaS
10 8 (2.74%) Datadog
10 8 (2.74%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.05%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.71%) Cohesity
14 4 (1.37%) Azure Stack
15 3 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (1.03%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 189 (64.73%) Firewall
2 108 (36.99%) DNS
3 106 (36.30%) BGP
4 97 (33.22%) OSPF
4 97 (33.22%) VPN
5 86 (29.45%) DHCP
6 82 (28.08%) WAN
7 71 (24.32%) LAN
8 70 (23.97%) TCP/IP
9 69 (23.63%) Network Security
10 58 (19.86%) Wireless
11 45 (15.41%) Wi-Fi
12 43 (14.73%) SAN
13 34 (11.64%) SD-WAN
14 33 (11.30%) Cisco Nexus
15 28 (9.59%) VXLAN
16 27 (9.25%) NX-OS
17 24 (8.22%) NAS
18 23 (7.88%) IPsec
19 22 (7.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.08%) Git
1 9 (3.08%) JIRA
2 8 (2.74%) Chocolatey
2 8 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.34%) MSI
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.56%) Finance
4 20 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.45%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.11%) Banking
7 11 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.40%) Legal
10 7 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.40%) Retail
11 6 (2.05%) Police
12 3 (1.03%) Automotive
12 3 (1.03%) Games
12 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Law
14 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (45.21%) Network Engineer
2 53 (18.15%) Senior
3 47 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (11.64%) Architect
4 34 (11.64%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (8.22%) IT Engineer
6 23 (7.88%) Network Architect
7 14 (4.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 14 (4.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 13 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 13 (4.45%) IT Support
9 12 (4.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (4.11%) Network Specialist
10 11 (3.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.77%) Security Engineer
10 11 (3.77%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Network Security Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.82%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.37%) REST
3 2 (0.68%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.68%) eBPF
3 2 (0.68%) HTML
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.68%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.68%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) CSS
4 1 (0.34%) HTML5
4 1 (0.34%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 94 (32.19%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.51%) Replication
3 17 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.45%) Operational Technology
5 13 (4.45%) PKI
6 11 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.42%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.74%) SCADA
9 6 (2.05%) Life Science
9 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.71%) Clustering
10 5 (1.71%) Digital Signage
11 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.26%) Windows
2 36 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 27 (9.25%) Linux
4 13 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.05%) CentOS
6 6 (2.05%) Rocky
6 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.37%) SUSE
7 4 (1.37%) VMS
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.68%) Unix
10 1 (0.34%) Debian
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (21.23%) Migration
2 58 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (19.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (15.41%) Validation
5 43 (14.73%) ITSM
6 40 (13.70%) Network Segmentation
7 32 (10.96%) High Availability
8 31 (10.62%) Project Delivery
9 30 (10.27%) Network Design
10 27 (9.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (9.25%) Zero Trust
11 26 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (8.56%) ITIL
13 21 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (7.19%) Runbook
14 20 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (6.51%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (6.16%) Network Monitoring
17 17 (5.82%) DevOps
17 17 (5.82%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.47%) Python
2 28 (9.59%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.48%) Bash
4 5 (1.71%) ActionScript
5 3 (1.03%) SQL
6 1 (0.34%) Bicep
6 1 (0.34%) Java
6 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.34%) Perl
6 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 80 (27.40%) Cisco Certification
3 76 (26.03%) SC Cleared
4 70 (23.97%) CCNP
5 48 (16.44%) CCNA
6 22 (7.53%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.51%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (5.14%) Degree
8 15 (5.14%) Server+ Certification
9 11 (3.77%) CCIE
10 9 (3.08%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.37%) CISSP
12 4 (1.37%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.03%) CISM
13 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.03%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.11%) SLA
2 10 (3.42%) QA
3 9 (3.08%) NCSC
4 7 (2.40%) GxP
5 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.71%) NIST
6 4 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.03%) GDPR
7 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.68%) GMP
8 2 (0.68%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 52 (17.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (14.73%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.53%) vSphere
4 19 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.48%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.14%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.79%) Firmware
8 11 (3.77%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.37%) KVM
10 4 (1.37%) NFS
11 2 (0.68%) Ceph
11 2 (0.68%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.34%) Docker
12 1 (0.34%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.34%) QEMU
12 1 (0.34%) Snort
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (14.73%) Ansible
2 32 (10.96%) Terraform
3 25 (8.56%) FortiGate
4 20 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.77%) vCenter Server
6 10 (3.42%) SCCM
7 6 (2.05%) Cisco Prime
7 6 (2.05%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.05%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.05%) WSUS
8 5 (1.71%) VxRail
9 4 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.37%) Grafana
9 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.03%) Avamar
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.03%) Nagios
10 3 (1.03%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.03%) systemd
11 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 165 (56.51%) Cisco
2 67 (22.95%) VMware
3 58 (19.86%) Microsoft
4 55 (18.84%) Fortinet
5 54 (18.49%) Palo Alto
6 43 (14.73%) F5
7 33 (11.30%) Juniper
8 29 (9.93%) CheckPoint
9 22 (7.53%) Aruba
10 20 (6.85%) ServiceNow
11 18 (6.16%) Veeam
12 15 (5.14%) Arista
12 15 (5.14%) SolarWinds
13 14 (4.79%) Zscaler
14 10 (3.42%) Dynatrace
14 10 (3.42%) Ekahau
14 10 (3.42%) Meraki
14 10 (3.42%) NetApp
15 9 (3.08%) AppDynamics
16 8 (2.74%) Citrix