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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 347 416
Rank change year-on-year -15 +69 -48
Contract jobs citing VLAN 280 160 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.54% 4.64% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 102 90
10th Percentile £330 £203 £190
25th Percentile £413 £325 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £519 £539
90th Percentile £635 £636 £628
UK median daily rate £470 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +10.59% +3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.96 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% +4.55% +78.86%

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 4,279 3,451 4,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.65% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,640 2,143 2,844
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +3.79% -3.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 155 384
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £23.99 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +2.41% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% +15.63% +45.45%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -42 78 £450 +10.70% 55
North of England -34 59 £515 +15.21% 27
North West -17 41 £575 +23.66% 14
South East -54 40 £550 +22.22% 61
South West -12 31 £495 +65.00% 17
Midlands -40 30 £413 -7.30% 16
Yorkshire -35 17 £388 +29.06% 10
West Midlands -62 15 £413 +13.01% 9
East Midlands -9 14 £275 -57.69% 7
East of England -29 11 £563 +143.24% 19
North East -35 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 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.43%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.71%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (26.79%) Azure
2 38 (13.57%) AWS
3 25 (8.93%) Entra ID
3 25 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.36%) GCP
5 13 (4.64%) IaaS
6 12 (4.29%) GitHub
7 10 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.86%) Nutanix
8 8 (2.86%) PaaS
8 8 (2.86%) SaaS
9 7 (2.50%) Datadog
9 7 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.79%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.43%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.71%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 175 (62.50%) Firewall
2 99 (35.36%) BGP
2 99 (35.36%) DNS
3 93 (33.21%) OSPF
4 87 (31.07%) VPN
4 87 (31.07%) WAN
5 81 (28.93%) DHCP
6 73 (26.07%) LAN
7 68 (24.29%) Network Security
8 62 (22.14%) TCP/IP
9 50 (17.86%) Wireless
10 44 (15.71%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (14.29%) SAN
12 37 (13.21%) SD-WAN
13 30 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
14 27 (9.64%) NX-OS
14 27 (9.64%) VXLAN
15 24 (8.57%) MPLS
16 23 (8.21%) NAS
17 22 (7.86%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.86%) JIRA
2 7 (2.50%) Chocolatey
2 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.79%) Git
4 4 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.71%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 72 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (6.43%) Finance
5 15 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.57%) Banking
8 7 (2.50%) Legal
8 7 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.79%) Police
11 4 (1.43%) Retail
12 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (44.64%) Network Engineer
2 42 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (14.29%) Senior
4 38 (13.57%) Architect
5 27 (9.64%) Senior Network Engineer
6 23 (8.21%) IT Engineer
6 23 (8.21%) Network Architect
7 14 (5.00%) IT Support
7 14 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 14 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 12 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Network Specialist
9 11 (3.93%) Security Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 10 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
10 10 (3.57%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.43%) REST
3 2 (0.71%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.71%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.71%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.71%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (32.50%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.71%) Replication
4 13 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.93%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.57%) Driving Licence
8 9 (3.21%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.86%) PKI
10 7 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.14%) SCADA
11 6 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.79%) Clustering
13 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.43%) Life Science
13 4 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 58 (20.71%) Windows
2 27 (9.64%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.50%) Linux
4 12 (4.29%) Windows 10
5 11 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.43%) CentOS
6 4 (1.43%) Rocky
6 4 (1.43%) SUSE
6 4 (1.43%) VMS
6 4 (1.43%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.71%) Unix
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.07%) Migration
2 50 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 48 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.43%) ITSM
5 41 (14.64%) Network Segmentation
5 41 (14.64%) Validation
6 30 (10.71%) High Availability
7 28 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (9.64%) Network Design
9 26 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (8.93%) ITIL
10 25 (8.93%) Project Delivery
11 24 (8.57%) Zero Trust
12 23 (8.21%) Runbook
13 20 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (6.79%) Network Monitoring
15 16 (5.71%) CI/CD
15 16 (5.71%) Mentoring
15 16 (5.71%) RBAC
16 15 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.36%) Python
2 27 (9.64%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.64%) Bash
4 6 (2.14%) VBScript
5 5 (1.79%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.43%) VB
7 2 (0.71%) SQL
8 1 (0.36%) Bicep
8 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 82 (29.29%) SC Cleared
3 76 (27.14%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (23.57%) CCNP
5 48 (17.14%) CCNA
6 26 (9.29%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.79%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (5.36%) Server+ Certification
9 13 (4.64%) Degree
10 12 (4.29%) CCIE
11 8 (2.86%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.43%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.07%) CISSP
13 3 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.71%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.57%) NCSC
1 10 (3.57%) QA
2 9 (3.21%) SLA
3 5 (1.79%) GxP
3 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.79%) NIST
4 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.71%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.71%) GMP
5 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 47 (16.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.57%) Active Directory
3 24 (8.57%) vSphere
4 19 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (5.00%) Firmware
6 14 (5.00%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.93%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.43%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.43%) NFS
10 3 (1.07%) KVM
11 2 (0.71%) Ceph
11 2 (0.71%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.36%) Docker
12 1 (0.36%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.36%) QEMU
12 1 (0.36%) Snort
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (12.86%) Ansible
2 25 (8.93%) Terraform
3 24 (8.57%) FortiGate
4 17 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.64%) SCCM
6 12 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.14%) VxRail
7 6 (2.14%) WSUS
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.43%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.43%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.07%) Avamar
9 3 (1.07%) Grafana
9 3 (1.07%) Iperf
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Nagios
9 3 (1.07%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 156 (55.71%) Cisco
2 62 (22.14%) VMware
3 54 (19.29%) Palo Alto
4 51 (18.21%) Fortinet
5 49 (17.50%) Microsoft
6 36 (12.86%) F5
7 29 (10.36%) CheckPoint
8 28 (10.00%) Juniper
9 23 (8.21%) Aruba
10 22 (7.86%) ServiceNow
11 17 (6.07%) Veeam
12 16 (5.71%) SolarWinds
13 13 (4.64%) Arista
14 12 (4.29%) Meraki
15 11 (3.93%) Ekahau
15 11 (3.93%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.86%) AppDynamics
16 8 (2.86%) Dell
16 8 (2.86%) Dynatrace
16 8 (2.86%) NetApp