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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 325 391
Rank change year-on-year -40 +66 +9
Contract jobs citing VLAN 226 154 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.63% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.97% 4.81% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 107 97
10th Percentile £263 £223 £188
25th Percentile £400 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +7.50% -13.46%
75th Percentile £569 £584 £521
90th Percentile £612 £619 £588
UK median daily rate £467 £430 £406
% change year-on-year +8.58% +5.85% -14.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.82 - -
90th Percentile £80.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +69.23%

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 3,783 3,199 5,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.80% 13.13% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 2,000 3,167
10th Percentile £213 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £480
% change year-on-year +2.56% +1.67% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 382
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.64 £17.70
Median hourly rate £42.38 £35.75 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.53% -5.92% +100.37%
75th Percentile £67.96 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £69.86
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +20.71% -6.67% +97.37%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -25 65 £500 +53.85% 35
London -45 64 £470 +8.05% 36
North West +5 56 £508 +28.89% 24
South East -50 36 £500 -1.48% 43
Midlands -57 30 £413 -29.78% 24
West Midlands -46 19 £469 -19.60% 21
South West -28 12 £475 +15.15% 13
East Midlands -28 10 £275 -57.69% 3
Yorkshire -57 9 £363 +47.96% 8
East of England -38 5 £540 +188.00% 12
North East - 3 £550 - 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 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.98%) Skype for Business
3 7 (3.10%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.19%) Azure
2 36 (15.93%) AWS
3 26 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.08%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.19%) GCP
6 13 (5.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (3.98%) IaaS
7 9 (3.98%) PaaS
7 9 (3.98%) SaaS
8 8 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.65%) Datadog
10 4 (1.77%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.77%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.77%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.33%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.44%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 138 (61.06%) Firewall
2 77 (34.07%) VPN
2 77 (34.07%) WAN
3 74 (32.74%) DNS
4 68 (30.09%) BGP
4 68 (30.09%) DHCP
4 68 (30.09%) LAN
5 66 (29.20%) Network Security
6 58 (25.66%) OSPF
7 50 (22.12%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (21.68%) TCP/IP
9 34 (15.04%) Wireless
10 26 (11.50%) SD-WAN
11 24 (10.62%) MPLS
12 17 (7.52%) Cisco ISE
12 17 (7.52%) SAN
13 16 (7.08%) WLAN
14 15 (6.64%) VXLAN
15 14 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (6.19%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.44%) MySQL
2 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (0.88%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
3 1 (0.44%) MSI
General
1 61 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.64%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.19%) Finance
5 13 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.31%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.42%) Banking
8 7 (3.10%) Legal
9 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.88%) Aviation
12 2 (0.88%) Law
13 1 (0.44%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.44%) Electronics
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.44%) Police
13 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (40.71%) Network Engineer
2 25 (11.06%) Architect
3 22 (9.73%) Senior
4 21 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (9.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 15 (6.64%) IT Engineer
6 13 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (5.75%) IT Support
6 13 (5.75%) Network Architect
7 12 (5.31%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (4.87%) Analyst
9 10 (4.42%) Cisco Engineer
10 9 (3.98%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.10%) IT Analyst
12 7 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.65%) IT Support Analyst
13 6 (2.65%) Operations Engineer
13 6 (2.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.85%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.88%) REST
2 2 (0.88%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.88%) XMPP
3 1 (0.44%) CSS
3 1 (0.44%) HTML
3 1 (0.44%) LAMP
3 1 (0.44%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.44%) LDAP
3 1 (0.44%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.99%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.64%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.98%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.10%) Replication
5 6 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.65%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.77%) Clustering
6 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.77%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.33%) PKI
7 3 (1.33%) SCADA
7 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.88%) CCTV
8 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.32%) Windows
2 21 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 19 (8.41%) Windows 10
4 18 (7.96%) Linux
5 14 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.98%) Windows 7
7 5 (2.21%) VMS
8 4 (1.77%) SUSE
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.03%) Migration
2 41 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (17.26%) ITSM
4 28 (12.39%) High Availability
4 28 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (11.06%) Network Design
5 25 (11.06%) Validation
6 23 (10.18%) Network Monitoring
6 23 (10.18%) Network Segmentation
7 22 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (9.29%) Change Control
8 21 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (8.85%) ITIL
10 19 (8.41%) Project Delivery
11 18 (7.96%) Service Management
12 17 (7.52%) Runbook
13 16 (7.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (6.64%) Zero Trust
15 12 (5.31%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.49%) PowerShell
2 30 (13.27%) Python
3 20 (8.85%) Bash
4 13 (5.75%) VBScript
5 9 (3.98%) VB
6 7 (3.10%) Perl
7 6 (2.65%) SQL
8 1 (0.44%) Go
8 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 95 (42.04%) Security Cleared
2 76 (33.63%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (33.63%) SC Cleared
3 69 (30.53%) CCNP
4 52 (23.01%) CCNA
5 19 (8.41%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.19%) CCIE
6 14 (6.19%) Degree
7 12 (5.31%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.87%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (3.10%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.10%) JNCIS
10 6 (2.65%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (2.21%) CISSP
11 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.77%) CCDP
12 4 (1.77%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.77%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.33%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.42%) SLA
2 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.21%) GDPR
3 5 (2.21%) NIST
3 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.88%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (19.47%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.41%) vSphere
4 17 (7.52%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.31%) Firmware
6 9 (3.98%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.10%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.65%) VMware NSX
10 5 (2.21%) KVM
11 4 (1.77%) Docker
12 3 (1.33%) Ceph
13 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.44%) iptables
14 1 (0.44%) Lustre
14 1 (0.44%) QEMU
14 1 (0.44%) RHEV
14 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.44%) SRDF
14 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (9.29%) SCCM
2 19 (8.41%) Ansible
3 17 (7.52%) FortiGate
4 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.75%) Terraform
4 13 (5.75%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.87%) VxRail
6 9 (3.98%) Nagios
7 5 (2.21%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.77%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.33%) Iperf
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.33%) WSUS
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.88%) Grafana
10 2 (0.88%) Nmap
10 2 (0.88%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 110 (48.67%) Cisco
2 54 (23.89%) Microsoft
3 49 (21.68%) Palo Alto
4 38 (16.81%) VMware
5 33 (14.60%) Fortinet
6 23 (10.18%) Juniper
7 20 (8.85%) Aruba
8 18 (7.96%) SolarWinds
9 16 (7.08%) ServiceNow
10 15 (6.64%) CheckPoint
11 14 (6.19%) Meraki
12 13 (5.75%) Dell
12 13 (5.75%) F5
13 11 (4.87%) Veeam
14 9 (3.98%) Ekahau
14 9 (3.98%) Red Hat
15 8 (3.54%) Arista
15 8 (3.54%) Citrix
16 7 (3.10%) AppDynamics
16 7 (3.10%) Dynatrace