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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 326 358
Rank change year-on-year -55 +32 +116
Contract jobs citing VLAN 168 174 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.01% 4.98% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 102 113
10th Percentile £219 £236 £224
25th Percentile £368 £327 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £575 £592 £588
90th Percentile £672 £644 £685
UK median daily rate £474 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +10.23% -9.47% +2.15%
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 3,352 3,493 5,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.65% 12.79% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,039 3,147
10th Percentile £204 £220 £208
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.71
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +88.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +89.88%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -33 46 £476 +43.77% 27
London -8 44 £488 +2.63% 23
South East -20 43 £460 -5.15% 36
North West -6 37 £491 +3.29% 14
Midlands -49 13 £525 -7.33% 24
West Midlands -49 11 £531 -9.56% 15
East of England -8 9 £588 +139.80% 18
Yorkshire -49 9 £300 +22.45% 9
South West -21 7 £425 +3.03% 14
North East - 3 £550 - 5
East Midlands -27 2 £275 -26.67% 8
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.98%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.19%) WordPress
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) Azure
2 37 (22.02%) AWS
3 20 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.14%) GCP
5 10 (5.95%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (2.98%) SaaS
7 5 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.79%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.19%) IaaS
9 2 (1.19%) PaaS
10 1 (0.60%) Akamai
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 100 (59.52%) Firewall
2 56 (33.33%) DNS
3 52 (30.95%) VPN
4 51 (30.36%) DHCP
5 49 (29.17%) BGP
5 49 (29.17%) TCP/IP
6 46 (27.38%) WAN
7 45 (26.79%) Network Security
8 41 (24.40%) LAN
9 37 (22.02%) OSPF
10 29 (17.26%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (11.90%) Wireless
12 18 (10.71%) MPLS
13 16 (9.52%) SD-WAN
14 14 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (6.55%) IPsec
15 11 (6.55%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (5.95%) EIGRP
16 10 (5.95%) VXLAN
16 10 (5.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.60%) MySQL
2 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.19%) Git
1 2 (1.19%) Metasploit
1 2 (1.19%) sqlmap
2 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.55%) Finance
5 7 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.98%) Legal
7 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Local Government
9 2 (1.19%) Advertising
9 2 (1.19%) Electronics
9 2 (1.19%) Law
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (35.12%) Network Engineer
2 26 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 18 (10.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Architect
6 11 (6.55%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (6.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Analyst
7 9 (5.36%) Senior
8 8 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Lead
9 7 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.57%) IT Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Administrator
11 5 (2.98%) Consultant
11 5 (2.98%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Juniper Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Network Architect
11 5 (2.98%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.38%) Middleware
3 2 (1.19%) XMPP
4 1 (0.60%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.60%) JFC
4 1 (0.60%) JSON
4 1 (0.60%) LAMP
4 1 (0.60%) LangChain
4 1 (0.60%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.60%) LDAP
4 1 (0.60%) libvirt
4 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (6.55%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.76%) Replication
5 4 (2.38%) CCTV
5 4 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) NHS
5 4 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.79%) Clustering
6 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 60 (35.71%) Windows
2 30 (17.86%) Linux
3 21 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.98%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.79%) VMS
8 2 (1.19%) CentOS
8 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (14.29%) ITIL
4 22 (13.10%) High Availability
5 21 (12.50%) Migration
5 21 (12.50%) Service Management
6 20 (11.90%) Network Design
7 18 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (10.12%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 16 (9.52%) ITSM
10 15 (8.93%) Network Monitoring
11 14 (8.33%) Change Control
12 13 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (7.14%) Containerisation
13 12 (7.14%) Incident Response
14 11 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.55%) Preventative Maintenance
14 11 (6.55%) Project Delivery
15 10 (5.95%) Network Architecture
15 10 (5.95%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 22 (13.10%) Python
3 20 (11.90%) Bash
4 7 (4.17%) Perl
4 7 (4.17%) VBScript
5 5 (2.98%) VB
6 4 (2.38%) SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Go
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
3 52 (30.95%) SC Cleared
4 48 (28.57%) CCNP
5 25 (14.88%) CCNA
6 18 (10.71%) Azure Certification
7 15 (8.93%) Degree
7 15 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (8.93%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (7.14%) DV Cleared
9 11 (6.55%) Server+ Certification
10 8 (4.76%) CCIE
11 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
11 6 (3.57%) JNCIS
12 5 (2.98%) CCDP
12 5 (2.98%) CISSP
12 5 (2.98%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.79%) CCSP
13 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.57%) NIST
3 5 (2.98%) SLA
4 4 (2.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 43 (25.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.31%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.76%) Docker
4 8 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (4.76%) vSphere
5 7 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.57%) KVM
7 5 (2.98%) BitLocker
7 5 (2.98%) Firmware
8 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.79%) Ceph
10 2 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.60%) Lustre
11 1 (0.60%) NFS
11 1 (0.60%) RHEV
11 1 (0.60%) Samba
11 1 (0.60%) Squid
11 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (13.10%) FortiGate
2 14 (8.33%) Ansible
3 12 (7.14%) SCCM
4 11 (6.55%) Terraform
5 10 (5.95%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
6 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.57%) Nagios
7 5 (2.98%) Nmap
7 5 (2.98%) VxRail
8 3 (1.79%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.79%) Iperf
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.19%) Nessus
9 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 72 (42.86%) Cisco
2 49 (29.17%) VMware
3 45 (26.79%) Microsoft
4 42 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 27 (16.07%) Fortinet
6 21 (12.50%) Dell
7 20 (11.90%) SolarWinds
8 18 (10.71%) Juniper
9 12 (7.14%) F5
10 10 (5.95%) Meraki
10 10 (5.95%) Red Hat
10 10 (5.95%) Veeam
11 9 (5.36%) Aruba
11 9 (5.36%) Citrix
12 7 (4.17%) CheckPoint
12 7 (4.17%) NetApp
12 7 (4.17%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.98%) HP
14 4 (2.38%) Zscaler
15 3 (1.79%) Okta