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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 348 392
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 -45
Contract jobs citing VLAN 301 158 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.57% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.01% 4.61% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 102 86
10th Percentile £364 £212 £252
25th Percentile £413 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -8.16% -3.80%
75th Percentile £593 £536 £564
90th Percentile £649 £674 £656
UK median daily rate £475 £442 £475
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.89% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -

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 4,294 3,427 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.40% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,130 2,572
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 165 282
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -3.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -61 85 £460 +14.86% 57
North of England -30 64 £500 +9.65% 29
South East -55 49 £475 +5.56% 49
North West -11 43 £519 +10.45% 15
South West -9 32 £495 +130.23% 21
Midlands -45 30 £413 -7.30% 15
Yorkshire -27 20 £438 +45.71% 12
West Midlands -54 15 £413 +13.01% 11
East Midlands -3 14 £275 -57.69% 4
East of England -23 12 £600 +65.52% 15
North East -42 1 - - 2
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 15 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) FactoryTalk
3 5 (1.66%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.66%) Apache
4 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (30.23%) Azure
2 44 (14.62%) AWS
3 34 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (10.96%) Entra ID
5 19 (6.31%) GCP
6 18 (5.98%) GitHub
7 13 (4.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (4.32%) IaaS
8 8 (2.66%) PaaS
8 8 (2.66%) SaaS
9 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.33%) Datadog
9 7 (2.33%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.66%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.33%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 190 (63.12%) Firewall
2 117 (38.87%) DNS
3 108 (35.88%) BGP
4 101 (33.55%) VPN
5 100 (33.22%) OSPF
6 96 (31.89%) DHCP
7 89 (29.57%) WAN
8 74 (24.58%) LAN
9 72 (23.92%) TCP/IP
10 69 (22.92%) Network Security
11 59 (19.60%) Wireless
12 46 (15.28%) Wi-Fi
13 43 (14.29%) SAN
14 41 (13.62%) SD-WAN
15 32 (10.63%) Cisco Nexus
16 30 (9.97%) VXLAN
17 26 (8.64%) Cisco IOS
17 26 (8.64%) NX-OS
18 25 (8.31%) NAS
19 24 (7.97%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.32%) Git
3 9 (2.99%) JIRA
4 7 (2.33%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.66%) GitLab
6 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 71 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.64%) Finance
4 18 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.65%) Banking
7 10 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.33%) Retail
11 6 (1.99%) Legal
11 6 (1.99%) Police
12 4 (1.33%) Automotive
12 4 (1.33%) Games
13 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Advertising
14 2 (0.66%) Law
15 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (45.51%) Network Engineer
2 54 (17.94%) Senior
3 49 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (12.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 34 (11.30%) Architect
6 23 (7.64%) Network Architect
7 22 (7.31%) IT Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) Cisco Engineer
9 16 (5.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 15 (4.98%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 13 (4.32%) Network Specialist
11 13 (4.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) IT Support
12 12 (3.99%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) Support Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Senior Network Specialist
14 10 (3.32%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.98%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.33%) REST
3 3 (1.00%) HTML
3 3 (1.00%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.66%) cloud-init
4 2 (0.66%) eBPF
4 2 (0.66%) HTML5
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.66%) ODBC
5 1 (0.33%) .NET
5 1 (0.33%) CSS
5 1 (0.33%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.33%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 91 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.31%) Replication
3 18 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.65%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.32%) Operational Technology
6 14 (4.65%) PKI
6 14 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.65%) Driving Licence
9 10 (3.32%) SCADA
10 7 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.33%) Life Science
11 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.99%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.66%) Clustering
12 5 (1.66%) CMDB
12 5 (1.66%) Digital Signage
12 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 72 (23.92%) Windows
2 38 (12.62%) Windows Server
3 30 (9.97%) Linux
4 13 (4.32%) Windows 10
5 12 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.99%) CentOS
7 6 (1.99%) Rocky
8 5 (1.66%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.33%) SUSE
9 4 (1.33%) Unix
9 4 (1.33%) VMS
10 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.33%) Debian
11 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (19.60%) Migration
3 55 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (15.61%) Validation
5 45 (14.95%) ITSM
6 42 (13.95%) Network Segmentation
7 37 (12.29%) High Availability
8 30 (9.97%) ITIL
8 30 (9.97%) Network Design
8 30 (9.97%) Project Delivery
9 29 (9.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (9.63%) Zero Trust
10 25 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (6.64%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (6.64%) Network Monitoring
12 20 (6.64%) Runbook
13 19 (6.31%) DevOps
14 18 (5.98%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.28%) Python
2 32 (10.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.32%) Bash
4 6 (1.99%) VBScript
5 5 (1.66%) ActionScript
5 5 (1.66%) VB
6 4 (1.33%) SQL
7 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Java
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 101 (33.55%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.91%) Cisco Certification
3 75 (24.92%) SC Cleared
4 68 (22.59%) CCNP
5 48 (15.95%) CCNA
6 21 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.31%) Network+ Certification
8 16 (5.32%) Degree
9 15 (4.98%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (3.65%) CCIE
11 10 (3.32%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.66%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.33%) CISSP
14 4 (1.33%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.00%) CISM
15 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.32%) QA
2 11 (3.65%) SLA
3 7 (2.33%) GxP
3 7 (2.33%) NCSC
4 6 (1.99%) NIST
5 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.33%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.00%) GDPR
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.66%) GMP
8 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 59 (19.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.98%) vSphere
4 19 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.98%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.65%) Firmware
6 14 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.65%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.99%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.66%) KVM
11 4 (1.33%) NFS
12 3 (1.00%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.66%) Ceph
14 1 (0.33%) Docker
14 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.33%) QEMU
14 1 (0.33%) Snort
14 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (15.61%) Ansible
2 37 (12.29%) Terraform
3 25 (8.31%) FortiGate
4 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.65%) SCCM
6 10 (3.32%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.66%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.99%) Nagios
8 6 (1.99%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.99%) WSUS
9 5 (1.66%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.33%) Grafana
10 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.33%) systemd
10 4 (1.33%) VxRail
11 3 (1.00%) Avamar
11 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.00%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 168 (55.81%) Cisco
2 76 (25.25%) VMware
3 67 (22.26%) Microsoft
4 57 (18.94%) Fortinet
5 52 (17.28%) Palo Alto
6 43 (14.29%) F5
7 33 (10.96%) Juniper
8 28 (9.30%) CheckPoint
9 26 (8.64%) ServiceNow
10 22 (7.31%) Aruba
11 18 (5.98%) SolarWinds
12 17 (5.65%) Veeam
13 15 (4.98%) Arista
14 13 (4.32%) Zscaler
15 12 (3.99%) Meraki
16 10 (3.32%) CyberArk
16 10 (3.32%) Ekahau
16 10 (3.32%) NetApp
17 9 (2.99%) Dynatrace
18 8 (2.66%) AppDynamics