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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 336 388
Rank change year-on-year -11 +52 -49
Contract jobs citing VLAN 308 168 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.61% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.10% 5.10% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 109 83
10th Percentile £375 £219 £251
25th Percentile £413 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £588
90th Percentile £666 £663 £671
UK median daily rate £475 £446 £431
% change year-on-year +6.50% +3.42% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.32% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £60.88 -
90th Percentile £77.41 £64.70 -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £45.75 £30.25
% change year-on-year +27.32% +51.24% -5.10%

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 4,340 3,293 3,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.86% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,571 2,057 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £230 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 165 218
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £14.47
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £22.84
Median hourly rate £38.53 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £43.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.42% -14.85% -10.60%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -54 97 £463 +8.82% 140
North of England -38 60 £503 +12.42% 37
South East -61 50 £500 +11.11% 104
North West -22 33 £520 +9.38% 23
South West -19 31 £495 +29.41% 27
Midlands -41 27 £350 -26.32% 37
Yorkshire -24 26 £500 +173.97% 10
East of England -30 15 £600 +34.83% 22
East Midlands +3 14 £275 -32.52% 10
West Midlands -56 12 - - 27
North East -41 1 - - 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 16 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.95%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.62%) FactoryTalk
5 3 (0.97%) Confluence
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (29.22%) Azure
2 46 (14.94%) AWS
3 36 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.39%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.47%) GitHub
6 18 (5.84%) GCP
7 12 (3.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (3.90%) IaaS
8 7 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.27%) SaaS
9 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.95%) PaaS
9 6 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.62%) Cohesity
10 5 (1.62%) Datadog
10 5 (1.62%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.62%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 188 (61.04%) Firewall
2 120 (38.96%) DNS
3 114 (37.01%) BGP
4 101 (32.79%) OSPF
5 99 (32.14%) VPN
6 98 (31.82%) DHCP
7 89 (28.90%) WAN
8 69 (22.40%) Network Security
9 68 (22.08%) TCP/IP
10 65 (21.10%) LAN
11 64 (20.78%) Wireless
12 46 (14.94%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (13.31%) SD-WAN
14 38 (12.34%) SAN
15 36 (11.69%) Cisco Nexus
16 30 (9.74%) Multicast
16 30 (9.74%) VXLAN
17 27 (8.77%) IPsec
18 26 (8.44%) Cisco IOS
19 24 (7.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (4.22%) Git
1 13 (4.22%) Jenkins
1 13 (4.22%) JIRA
2 6 (1.95%) GitLab
3 5 (1.62%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 62 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.36%) Finance
3 33 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.57%) Banking
8 10 (3.25%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.27%) Police
10 7 (2.27%) Retail
11 6 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.62%) Legal
12 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.30%) Automotive
13 4 (1.30%) Games
14 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.65%) Advertising
15 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 142 (46.10%) Network Engineer
2 66 (21.43%) Senior
3 53 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (15.58%) Senior Network Engineer
5 28 (9.09%) Architect
6 19 (6.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 19 (6.17%) IT Engineer
7 18 (5.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 17 (5.52%) Network Architect
8 17 (5.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 14 (4.55%) Network Specialist
10 13 (4.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.90%) Senior Network Specialist
12 11 (3.57%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.92%) IT Support
14 9 (2.92%) Security Engineer
15 8 (2.60%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.64%) Terraform
2 13 (4.22%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.62%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.62%) REST
4 3 (0.97%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.65%) .NET
5 2 (0.65%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.65%) eBPF
5 2 (0.65%) gRPC
5 2 (0.65%) HTML
5 2 (0.65%) HTML5
5 2 (0.65%) JSON
5 2 (0.65%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.65%) ODBC
5 2 (0.65%) YAML
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 100 (32.47%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.84%) Replication
4 16 (5.19%) PKI
5 15 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.90%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.25%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.60%) Digital Signage
9 8 (2.60%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.27%) Life Science
10 7 (2.27%) SCADA
11 6 (1.95%) CMDB
11 6 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.62%) Clustering
12 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 84 (27.27%) Windows
2 45 (14.61%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.36%) Linux
4 14 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.60%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.95%) CentOS
7 6 (1.95%) Rocky
7 6 (1.95%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.62%) Unix
9 4 (1.30%) SUSE
9 4 (1.30%) VMS
10 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.65%) Android
12 1 (0.32%) Debian
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (21.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (20.13%) Migration
3 58 (18.83%) Validation
4 51 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (14.61%) ITSM
6 43 (13.96%) High Availability
7 38 (12.34%) Network Segmentation
8 34 (11.04%) ITIL
8 34 (11.04%) Project Delivery
9 33 (10.71%) Network Design
10 30 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 26 (8.44%) Zero Trust
13 22 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (7.14%) Runbook
14 21 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (6.49%) CI/CD
15 20 (6.49%) Load Balancing
16 19 (6.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.21%) Python
2 40 (12.99%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.19%) Bash
4 7 (2.27%) VBScript
5 6 (1.95%) VB
6 5 (1.62%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.65%) Java
7 2 (0.65%) SQL
7 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 100 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 73 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 71 (23.05%) Cisco Certification
4 61 (19.81%) CCNP
5 35 (11.36%) CCNA
6 23 (7.47%) DV Cleared
7 15 (4.87%) Degree
8 13 (4.22%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.22%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.57%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (3.25%) CCIE
11 5 (1.62%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.62%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.97%) CISM
13 3 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) QA
2 11 (3.57%) SLA
3 7 (2.27%) NIST
4 6 (1.95%) GxP
4 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.95%) NCSC
5 4 (1.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.30%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.65%) GDPR
6 2 (0.65%) GMP
6 2 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 66 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (13.31%) Active Directory
3 26 (8.44%) vSphere
4 20 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (6.17%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.55%) Firmware
7 11 (3.57%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.27%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.95%) KVM
9 6 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.30%) NFS
11 3 (0.97%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.65%) Ceph
12 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.32%) Docker
13 1 (0.32%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 51 (16.56%) Ansible
2 25 (8.12%) FortiGate
3 21 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (4.87%) vCenter Server
5 13 (4.22%) SCCM
6 9 (2.92%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.60%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (1.95%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.95%) WSUS
9 5 (1.62%) Grafana
10 4 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.30%) Nagios
10 4 (1.30%) systemd
10 4 (1.30%) VxRail
11 3 (0.97%) Avamar
11 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.97%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.97%) vMotion
12 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 179 (58.12%) Cisco
2 83 (26.95%) VMware
3 65 (21.10%) Microsoft
4 58 (18.83%) Fortinet
5 49 (15.91%) F5
6 45 (14.61%) Palo Alto
7 35 (11.36%) Juniper
8 29 (9.42%) ServiceNow
9 26 (8.44%) CheckPoint
10 21 (6.82%) Arista
10 21 (6.82%) Aruba
11 19 (6.17%) Veeam
12 17 (5.52%) SolarWinds
13 14 (4.55%) Meraki
14 13 (4.22%) NetApp
15 11 (3.57%) CyberArk
15 11 (3.57%) Zscaler
16 9 (2.92%) Dell
17 8 (2.60%) Dynatrace
18 7 (2.27%) Google