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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 334 357
Rank change year-on-year -44 +23 +41
Contract jobs citing VLAN 210 146 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.73% 4.24% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 97 111
10th Percentile £219 £223 £190
25th Percentile £380 £300 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £435 £413
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% +5.45% -11.05%
75th Percentile £569 £585 £528
90th Percentile £612 £619 £600
UK median daily rate £458 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +5.90% -3.89% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £76.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £30.25 £76.53
% change year-on-year +12.40% -60.47% +135.48%

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 3,667 3,446 5,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 13.41% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 2,078 3,231
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £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 £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 111 373
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £20.13 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 61 £491 +50.96% 26
London -25 59 £450 - 24
North West +2 49 £520 +15.56% 17
South East -30 38 £465 -19.13% 39
Midlands -57 21 £419 -28.72% 8
West Midlands -46 18 £425 -27.65% 4
Yorkshire -57 12 £363 +47.96% 7
South West -36 10 £400 -3.03% 15
East of England -23 8 £475 +156.76% 16
East Midlands -31 3 £275 -56.69% 4
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 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.29%) Skype for Business
3 5 (2.38%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.95%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.38%) Azure
2 36 (17.14%) AWS
3 25 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.19%) GCP
6 8 (3.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (3.81%) IaaS
6 8 (3.81%) PaaS
7 7 (3.33%) SaaS
8 6 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) Datadog
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.43%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.95%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.48%) Akamai
13 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.48%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 132 (62.86%) Firewall
2 71 (33.81%) DNS
2 71 (33.81%) VPN
3 68 (32.38%) DHCP
3 68 (32.38%) WAN
4 66 (31.43%) LAN
5 58 (27.62%) Network Security
6 57 (27.14%) BGP
7 51 (24.29%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (23.33%) TCP/IP
9 45 (21.43%) OSPF
10 29 (13.81%) MPLS
11 28 (13.33%) Wireless
12 21 (10.00%) SD-WAN
13 15 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (6.67%) EIGRP
14 14 (6.67%) SAN
14 14 (6.67%) WLAN
15 13 (6.19%) Cisco ISE
15 13 (6.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.48%) MySQL
2 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.95%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.95%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 59 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.19%) Finance
3 13 (6.19%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.81%) Banking
6 6 (2.86%) Legal
7 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.43%) Local Government
8 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.95%) Aviation
10 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.48%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (38.57%) Network Engineer
2 23 (10.95%) Architect
3 21 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 16 (7.62%) Senior
6 15 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) IT Support
8 12 (5.71%) Network Architect
9 11 (5.24%) IT Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) IT Analyst
12 7 (3.33%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.86%) Consultant
13 6 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) IT Support Analyst
13 6 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.10%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.95%) Middleware
2 2 (0.95%) RFC 2544
2 2 (0.95%) XMPP
3 1 (0.48%) CSS
3 1 (0.48%) HTML
3 1 (0.48%) LAMP
3 1 (0.48%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.48%) LDAP
3 1 (0.48%) libvirt
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.76%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.81%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.43%) CCTV
8 3 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.43%) NHS
8 3 (1.43%) SCADA
9 2 (0.95%) PKI
9 2 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.48%) IoT
10 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (31.43%) Windows
2 23 (10.95%) Linux
3 20 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 17 (8.10%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.29%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.95%) VMS
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) Unix
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (16.19%) Migration
3 33 (15.71%) ITSM
4 29 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (11.90%) Network Design
6 23 (10.95%) Network Monitoring
7 22 (10.48%) ITIL
8 21 (10.00%) Change Control
8 21 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (10.00%) Service Management
9 20 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.52%) High Availability
10 19 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.10%) Network Segmentation
11 17 (8.10%) Validation
12 15 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (6.19%) Incident Response
13 13 (6.19%) Project Delivery
14 12 (5.71%) Runbook
15 11 (5.24%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.24%) PowerShell
2 25 (11.90%) Python
3 22 (10.48%) Bash
4 13 (6.19%) VBScript
5 9 (4.29%) VB
6 8 (3.81%) Perl
7 6 (2.86%) SQL
8 1 (0.48%) Go
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 85 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (32.86%) SC Cleared
4 62 (29.52%) CCNP
5 45 (21.43%) CCNA
6 18 (8.57%) DV Cleared
7 17 (8.10%) Degree
8 14 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
9 12 (5.71%) CCIE
10 11 (5.24%) Azure Certification
11 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (3.81%) Server+ Certification
13 7 (3.33%) JNCIS
14 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
14 6 (2.86%) CCDP
15 5 (2.38%) CISSP
15 5 (2.38%) JNCIP
16 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
17 3 (1.43%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.24%) SLA
2 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.38%) NIST
3 5 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.90%) NCSC
5 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.95%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (20.95%) Active Directory
2 32 (15.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.24%) vSphere
4 10 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.29%) BitLocker
6 8 (3.81%) Docker
7 7 (3.33%) Firmware
8 6 (2.86%) VMware NSX
9 5 (2.38%) KVM
10 3 (1.43%) Ceph
10 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.48%) iptables
11 1 (0.48%) Lustre
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.48%) RHEV
11 1 (0.48%) Samba
11 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (10.00%) SCCM
2 17 (8.10%) FortiGate
3 14 (6.67%) Ansible
4 11 (5.24%) Terraform
5 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.29%) Nagios
6 9 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.33%) VxRail
8 5 (2.38%) Kubernetes
8 5 (2.38%) Nmap
9 3 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.43%) Iperf
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.95%) Grafana
10 2 (0.95%) Nessus
10 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.48%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 96 (45.71%) Cisco
2 56 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 45 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 43 (20.48%) VMware
5 25 (11.90%) Fortinet
6 22 (10.48%) Juniper
7 19 (9.05%) SolarWinds
8 17 (8.10%) Aruba
8 17 (8.10%) Dell
9 15 (7.14%) Meraki
9 15 (7.14%) ServiceNow
10 12 (5.71%) CheckPoint
10 12 (5.71%) F5
11 10 (4.76%) Citrix
11 10 (4.76%) Red Hat
12 9 (4.29%) Veeam
13 8 (3.81%) HP
13 8 (3.81%) Zscaler
14 6 (2.86%) Dynatrace
14 6 (2.86%) Ekahau