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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 327 403
Rank change year-on-year -21 +76 -16
Contract jobs citing VLAN 252 142 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.56% 4.50% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 98 86
10th Percentile £300 £212 £184
25th Percentile £406 £303 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £540 £572 £525
90th Percentile £612 £618 £606
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £13.95 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.20 - -
90th Percentile £79.69 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.91%

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 3,843 3,158 4,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 13.05% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,404 1,963 2,893
10th Percentile £250 £220 £207
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 117 389
10th Percentile £16.59 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% -27.50% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.15 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £39.02 £31.79 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.74% -20.53% +116.22%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -49 69 £450 +4.65% 49
North of England -15 61 £481 +49.11% 18
North West +13 52 £491 +3.29% 12
South East -48 43 £475 -6.40% 48
Midlands -55 30 £413 -31.82% 27
South West -11 26 £495 +10.00% 17
West Midlands -58 15 £413 +184.48% 18
East Midlands -21 14 £275 -57.69% 9
Yorkshire -56 8 £329 +34.18% 5
East of England -38 5 £540 +188.00% 9
North East - 1 - - 2
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 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.59%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (26.98%) Azure
2 32 (12.70%) AWS
3 22 (8.73%) Entra ID
3 22 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.17%) Nutanix
4 8 (3.17%) SaaS
5 7 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (2.78%) GCP
5 7 (2.78%) IaaS
5 7 (2.78%) PaaS
6 6 (2.38%) Datadog
7 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.98%) Cohesity
8 4 (1.59%) Azure Stack
8 4 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.19%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.79%) GitHub
10 2 (0.79%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 150 (59.52%) Firewall
2 77 (30.56%) DNS
3 75 (29.76%) WAN
4 73 (28.97%) DHCP
5 72 (28.57%) BGP
5 72 (28.57%) VPN
6 71 (28.17%) OSPF
7 69 (27.38%) Network Security
8 65 (25.79%) LAN
9 46 (18.25%) TCP/IP
9 46 (18.25%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (15.08%) Wireless
11 28 (11.11%) SD-WAN
12 26 (10.32%) SAN
13 22 (8.73%) NX-OS
14 21 (8.33%) VXLAN
15 20 (7.94%) Cisco ISE
15 20 (7.94%) MPLS
15 20 (7.94%) Structured Cabling
16 19 (7.54%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.40%) MySQL
2 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.19%) JIRA
3 2 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.79%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.40%) MSI
General
1 69 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.54%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (5.95%) Finance
5 12 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.97%) Banking
6 10 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.98%) Legal
8 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.79%) Aviation
11 2 (0.79%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 108 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 29 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (11.11%) Senior
4 26 (10.32%) Architect
5 25 (9.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 19 (7.54%) IT Engineer
7 18 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (5.95%) IT Support
9 14 (5.56%) Network Architect
10 13 (5.16%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Analyst
13 9 (3.57%) Network Specialist
13 9 (3.57%) Technical Architect
14 8 (3.17%) Security Engineer
15 7 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.78%) Network Security Engineer
16 6 (2.38%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.54%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.79%) REST
2 2 (0.79%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.79%) XMPP
3 1 (0.40%) CSS
3 1 (0.40%) HTML
3 1 (0.40%) LAMP
3 1 (0.40%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.40%) LDAP
3 1 (0.40%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.16%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.16%) Replication
4 9 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.17%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.59%) Clustering
8 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.19%) PKI
9 3 (1.19%) SCADA
10 2 (0.79%) CCTV
10 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Life Science
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.43%) Windows
2 18 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.95%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.16%) Linux
5 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.98%) VMS
7 4 (1.59%) SUSE
7 4 (1.59%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.40%) Debian
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.03%) Migration
2 43 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (14.29%) ITSM
3 36 (14.29%) Validation
4 34 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 31 (12.30%) Network Segmentation
6 25 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (9.52%) High Availability
7 24 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
8 21 (8.33%) ITIL
8 21 (8.33%) Network Design
8 21 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 20 (7.94%) Change Control
9 20 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (7.54%) Runbook
11 17 (6.75%) RBAC
12 14 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (4.76%) Mentoring
14 11 (4.37%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.71%) Python
2 21 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.56%) Bash
4 6 (2.38%) SQL
4 6 (2.38%) VBScript
5 4 (1.59%) VB
6 2 (0.79%) Perl
7 1 (0.40%) Go
7 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.40%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 98 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 82 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 75 (29.76%) Cisco Certification
4 68 (26.98%) CCNP
5 53 (21.03%) CCNA
6 16 (6.35%) Network+ Certification
7 14 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.37%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (3.57%) CCIE
10 8 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.17%) Degree
11 5 (1.98%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.59%) PMP
13 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.19%) CISSP
13 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.79%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.37%) SLA
2 9 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (1.59%) NCSC
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.19%) GxP
5 2 (0.79%) GMP
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.13%) vSphere
4 18 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.37%) Firmware
6 8 (3.17%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.59%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.59%) KVM
8 3 (1.19%) NFS
8 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.79%) Ceph
9 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) Docker
10 1 (0.40%) iptables
10 1 (0.40%) QEMU
10 1 (0.40%) RHEV
10 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.40%) SRDF
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 16 (6.35%) Ansible
3 13 (5.16%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.76%) SCCM
5 11 (4.37%) VxRail
6 9 (3.57%) Nagios
6 9 (3.57%) Terraform
7 6 (2.38%) WSUS
8 5 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.19%) Iperf
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.79%) Avamar
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.79%) Grafana
10 2 (0.79%) Nmap
10 2 (0.79%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 138 (54.76%) Cisco
2 49 (19.44%) Palo Alto
3 48 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 41 (16.27%) VMware
5 37 (14.68%) Fortinet
6 24 (9.52%) Juniper
7 22 (8.73%) CheckPoint
7 22 (8.73%) F5
8 20 (7.94%) Aruba
9 18 (7.14%) ServiceNow
9 18 (7.14%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.35%) Veeam
11 14 (5.56%) Dell
12 12 (4.76%) Meraki
13 10 (3.97%) Ekahau
14 9 (3.57%) Zscaler
15 8 (3.17%) Arista
15 8 (3.17%) Citrix
16 7 (2.78%) AppDynamics
16 7 (2.78%) Dynatrace