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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 332 404
Rank change year-on-year -24 +72 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 237 144 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.12% 4.52% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 100 87
10th Percentile £293 £212 £184
25th Percentile £406 £296 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £443 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +4.12% -8.60%
75th Percentile £540 £573 £525
90th Percentile £612 £625 £585
UK median daily rate £464 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.19% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £80.14 - -
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 3,871 3,187 4,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.56% 13.07% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,437 1,972 2,988
10th Percentile £239 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
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% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 125 399
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.26 £17.35
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.45% -8.39% +110.53%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -47 66 £460 +6.98% 49
North of England -22 56 £476 +67.11% 24
North West +5 49 £481 +2.39% 11
South East -53 39 £498 -1.97% 49
Midlands -55 31 £413 -31.82% 19
South West -12 22 £485 +36.14% 15
West Midlands -52 16 £413 +184.48% 14
East Midlands -26 14 £275 -57.69% 5
Yorkshire -53 7 £329 +35.57% 12
East of England -43 5 £540 +188.00% 13
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 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.95%) Skype for Business
3 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.54%) Azure
2 32 (13.50%) AWS
3 22 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.75%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (3.38%) GCP
6 8 (3.38%) SaaS
7 7 (2.95%) IaaS
7 7 (2.95%) PaaS
8 6 (2.53%) Datadog
9 5 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.69%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.27%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.84%) GitHub
12 2 (0.84%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 141 (59.49%) Firewall
2 74 (31.22%) VPN
3 73 (30.80%) WAN
4 70 (29.54%) DNS
5 69 (29.11%) BGP
5 69 (29.11%) Network Security
6 68 (28.69%) OSPF
7 65 (27.43%) DHCP
8 63 (26.58%) LAN
9 47 (19.83%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (18.99%) TCP/IP
11 33 (13.92%) Wireless
12 26 (10.97%) SD-WAN
13 20 (8.44%) Cisco ISE
13 20 (8.44%) MPLS
14 19 (8.02%) VXLAN
15 17 (7.17%) SAN
16 15 (6.33%) Cisco Nexus
17 14 (5.91%) WLAN
18 13 (5.49%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.84%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.42%) MSI
General
1 56 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.33%) Finance
4 14 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (5.91%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.22%) Banking
7 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.53%) Legal
8 5 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.84%) Aviation
11 2 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 104 (43.88%) Network Engineer
2 26 (10.97%) Senior
3 25 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (10.13%) Architect
5 22 (9.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) IT Engineer
7 16 (6.75%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) IT Support
9 12 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Network Architect
10 10 (4.22%) Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Network Specialist
11 9 (3.80%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.38%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) IT Analyst
13 7 (2.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Network Security Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.44%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.84%) REST
2 2 (0.84%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.84%) XMPP
3 1 (0.42%) CSS
3 1 (0.42%) HTML
3 1 (0.42%) LAMP
3 1 (0.42%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.42%) LDAP
3 1 (0.42%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.58%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.38%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.95%) Replication
6 6 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.27%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
10 2 (0.84%) CCTV
10 2 (0.84%) IoT
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (24.47%) Windows
2 19 (8.02%) Windows 10
2 19 (8.02%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.06%) Linux
4 7 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.95%) Windows 7
5 5 (2.11%) VMS
6 4 (1.69%) SUSE
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Debian
8 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.83%) Migration
2 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (15.19%) Validation
4 34 (14.35%) ITSM
5 29 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (10.97%) High Availability
6 26 (10.97%) Network Segmentation
7 25 (10.55%) Network Monitoring
8 23 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.28%) Network Design
10 21 (8.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (8.86%) Project Delivery
11 19 (8.02%) Runbook
12 18 (7.59%) ITIL
13 16 (6.75%) Change Control
14 14 (5.91%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (5.06%) RBAC
16 12 (5.06%) Service Management
16 12 (5.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.55%) PowerShell
1 25 (10.55%) Python
2 12 (5.06%) Bash
3 10 (4.22%) VBScript
4 7 (2.95%) VB
5 6 (2.53%) SQL
6 2 (0.84%) Perl
7 1 (0.42%) Go
7 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 92 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 77 (32.49%) SC Cleared
3 73 (30.80%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (27.85%) CCNP
5 50 (21.10%) CCNA
6 15 (6.33%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.64%) CCIE
7 11 (4.64%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (3.80%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.38%) Degree
10 6 (2.53%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (2.11%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.69%) CISSP
12 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.69%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.69%) PMP
13 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.84%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) SLA
2 4 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.69%) NCSC
2 4 (1.69%) QA
3 3 (1.27%) GxP
3 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.84%) GMP
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.44%) vSphere
4 18 (7.59%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.06%) Firmware
6 11 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.95%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.95%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.84%) Ceph
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.42%) Docker
10 1 (0.42%) iptables
10 1 (0.42%) QEMU
10 1 (0.42%) RHEV
10 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.42%) SRDF
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (9.28%) FortiGate
2 16 (6.75%) Ansible
2 16 (6.75%) SCCM
3 13 (5.49%) vCenter Server
4 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.64%) VxRail
5 9 (3.80%) Nagios
5 9 (3.80%) Terraform
6 6 (2.53%) WSUS
7 5 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.27%) Iperf
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.84%) Grafana
9 2 (0.84%) Nmap
9 2 (0.84%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 128 (54.01%) Cisco
2 49 (20.68%) Microsoft
3 48 (20.25%) Palo Alto
4 39 (16.46%) Fortinet
5 37 (15.61%) VMware
6 22 (9.28%) Aruba
6 22 (9.28%) Juniper
7 21 (8.86%) CheckPoint
8 19 (8.02%) F5
9 15 (6.33%) ServiceNow
9 15 (6.33%) SolarWinds
10 14 (5.91%) Dell
11 12 (5.06%) Veeam
12 11 (4.64%) Meraki
13 10 (4.22%) Ekahau
14 9 (3.80%) Zscaler
15 8 (3.38%) Citrix
16 7 (2.95%) AppDynamics
16 7 (2.95%) Arista
16 7 (2.95%) Dynatrace