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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 388 338
Rank change year-on-year +52 -50 +227
Contract jobs citing VLAN 168 146 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.10% 3.71% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 83 167
10th Percentile £219 £251 £220
25th Percentile £350 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +2.84%
75th Percentile £536 £588 £645
90th Percentile £663 £671 £700
UK median daily rate £446 £431 £475
% change year-on-year +3.42% -9.21% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 15
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £33.00 - £28.31
Median hourly rate £45.75 - £30.75
75th Percentile £60.88 - £35.50
90th Percentile £64.70 - £74.68
UK median hourly rate £45.75 £30.25 £31.88
% change year-on-year +51.24% -5.10% -0.39%

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 3,293 3,936 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 2,306 3,599
10th Percentile £230 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 218 280
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.47 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.84 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +36.12%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +43 58 £425 -18.27% 42
South East +31 41 £450 +50.00% 62
Midlands -15 20 £475 +26.67% 20
North of England -18 19 £447 -15.86% 38
East of England +20 16 £445 -25.83% 18
West Midlands -9 16 £475 -11.21% 9
North West -17 14 £475 -15.56% 24
South West +12 7 £383 -30.45% 6
East Midlands -10 4 £408 +8.67% 11
Yorkshire -14 4 £183 -65.24% 10
North East -3 1 - - 5
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.17%) Confluence
3 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.19%) IIS
5 2 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.52%) Azure
2 51 (30.36%) AWS
3 21 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.12%) GCP
5 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.57%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.98%) SaaS
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.79%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.79%) Serverless
8 3 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.19%) GitHub
9 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.60%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 96 (57.14%) Firewall
2 78 (46.43%) DNS
3 70 (41.67%) DHCP
4 69 (41.07%) BGP
5 66 (39.29%) VPN
6 65 (38.69%) OSPF
7 62 (36.90%) TCP/IP
8 39 (23.21%) Network Security
8 39 (23.21%) WAN
9 33 (19.64%) LAN
10 27 (16.07%) Wireless
11 23 (13.69%) IPsec
11 23 (13.69%) SSL
12 20 (11.90%) SD-WAN
13 18 (10.71%) MPLS
14 15 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (8.33%) EIGRP
15 14 (8.33%) Wireshark
16 13 (7.74%) VoIP
17 12 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.17%) JIRA
2 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.79%) Git
4 2 (1.19%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.19%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.19%) sqlmap
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.50%) Finance
4 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Local Government
9 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.19%) Advertising
11 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Banking
12 1 (0.60%) Electronics
12 1 (0.60%) French Language
12 1 (0.60%) Law
12 1 (0.60%) Marketing
12 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (25.60%) Network Engineer
2 27 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (11.31%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.74%) Infrastructure Support
5 12 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (5.95%) IT Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Administrator
7 9 (5.36%) Analyst
7 9 (5.36%) Architect
7 9 (5.36%) Designer
7 9 (5.36%) Network Designer
7 9 (5.36%) Senior
8 8 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Lead
9 7 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Check Point Expert
10 6 (3.57%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.57%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (0.60%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.60%) Flash
3 1 (0.60%) JFC
3 1 (0.60%) JSON
3 1 (0.60%) LangChain
3 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.14%) Replication
3 11 (6.55%) Operational Technology
4 9 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.98%) iPad
7 5 (2.98%) iPhone
7 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.79%) Clustering
9 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.19%) NHS
10 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (32.74%) Windows
2 22 (13.10%) Linux
3 18 (10.71%) Windows 10
4 11 (6.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.57%) Check Point GAiA
6 5 (2.98%) Android
6 5 (2.98%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.98%) Windows 7
6 5 (2.98%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.19%) CentOS
8 2 (1.19%) Unix
8 2 (1.19%) VMS
8 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.60%) SUSE
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (12.50%) High Availability
4 19 (11.31%) Network Monitoring
5 18 (10.71%) ITIL
5 18 (10.71%) Migration
6 16 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (7.74%) Network Architecture
7 13 (7.74%) Network Design
7 13 (7.74%) SIEM
8 10 (5.95%) Computer Science
8 10 (5.95%) Network Segmentation
8 10 (5.95%) Preventative Maintenance
8 10 (5.95%) Service Management
9 9 (5.36%) Agile
9 9 (5.36%) Customer Service
9 9 (5.36%) Proactive Monitoring
9 9 (5.36%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 8 (4.76%) DevOps
10 8 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.69%) Python
2 17 (10.12%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.95%) Bash
4 6 (3.57%) VBScript
5 2 (1.19%) SQL
6 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (25.60%) CCNP
3 39 (23.21%) Security Cleared
4 30 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.33%) CCSA
5 14 (8.33%) Degree
6 12 (7.14%) CCSE
7 10 (5.95%) Azure Certification
7 10 (5.95%) CCIE
7 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (5.95%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (5.36%) CCNA
8 9 (5.36%) Server+ Certification
9 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.76%) DV Cleared
10 6 (3.57%) Check Point Certification
11 5 (2.98%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.98%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.79%) NIST
4 3 (1.79%) SLA
5 2 (1.19%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 21 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 12 (7.14%) Firmware
5 9 (5.36%) vSphere
6 8 (4.76%) Docker
7 7 (4.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.60%) KVM
11 1 (0.60%) Squid
11 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (11.90%) Ansible
2 18 (10.71%) FortiGate
3 14 (8.33%) SCCM
4 6 (3.57%) Nagios
5 5 (2.98%) CA Spectrum
5 5 (2.98%) Nmap
5 5 (2.98%) Terraform
5 5 (2.98%) Tivoli
6 4 (2.38%) AppManager
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.38%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.79%) Iperf
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.19%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.19%) Icinga
8 2 (1.19%) Nessus
8 2 (1.19%) Observium
9 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 79 (47.02%) Cisco
2 52 (30.95%) VMware
3 39 (23.21%) Microsoft
4 31 (18.45%) Fortinet
4 31 (18.45%) Palo Alto
5 28 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 25 (14.88%) Juniper
7 23 (13.69%) CheckPoint
8 21 (12.50%) F5
9 20 (11.90%) Dell
10 15 (8.93%) Veeam
11 14 (8.33%) Meraki
12 10 (5.95%) Citrix
12 10 (5.95%) NetApp
13 9 (5.36%) Aruba
14 7 (4.17%) HP
15 6 (3.57%) Google
16 4 (2.38%) AirMagnet
16 4 (2.38%) Arista
16 4 (2.38%) Ivanti