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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 340 423
Rank change year-on-year -20 +83 -61
Contract jobs citing VLAN 270 156 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.60% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.47% 4.71% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 99 90
10th Percentile £349 £200 £190
25th Percentile £413 £325 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £538
90th Percentile £630 £605 £614
UK median daily rate £474 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.53% +6.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% - -
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile £75.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +28.70% +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 4,174 3,312 4,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.69% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,572 2,046 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 143 391
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.75 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% -12.82% +121.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +114.29%

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 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 3 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 3 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 -56 74 £450 +9.09% 55
North of England -26 61 £515 +15.21% 26
North West -9 45 £575 +23.66% 12
South East -53 36 £525 +16.67% 54
Midlands -55 30 £413 -7.30% 21
South West -6 28 £495 +65.00% 18
Yorkshire -39 15 £388 +29.06% 12
West Midlands -63 15 £413 +13.01% 11
East Midlands -8 14 £275 -57.69% 10
East of England -26 9 £551 +145.00% 23
North East -37 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 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.30%) Azure
2 36 (13.33%) AWS
3 23 (8.52%) Entra ID
3 23 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.56%) GCP
5 12 (4.44%) IaaS
6 11 (4.07%) GitHub
7 9 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.96%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.59%) PaaS
9 7 (2.59%) SaaS
9 7 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.22%) Datadog
11 5 (1.85%) Cohesity
12 4 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.48%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 166 (61.48%) Firewall
2 93 (34.44%) DNS
3 92 (34.07%) BGP
4 87 (32.22%) OSPF
5 86 (31.85%) WAN
6 79 (29.26%) VPN
7 76 (28.15%) DHCP
8 70 (25.93%) LAN
9 67 (24.81%) Network Security
10 55 (20.37%) TCP/IP
11 45 (16.67%) Wireless
12 43 (15.93%) Wi-Fi
13 38 (14.07%) SAN
14 37 (13.70%) SD-WAN
15 28 (10.37%) Cisco Nexus
16 27 (10.00%) NX-OS
17 26 (9.63%) VXLAN
18 23 (8.52%) MPLS
18 23 (8.52%) NAS
19 22 (8.15%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.96%) JIRA
2 7 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.22%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.85%) Git
5 3 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.74%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 70 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (5.93%) Finance
5 15 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.33%) Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Legal
8 7 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.48%) Police
11 4 (1.48%) Retail
12 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.74%) Aviation
13 2 (0.74%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) Local Government
14 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (44.07%) Network Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (14.07%) Architect
4 37 (13.70%) Senior
5 25 (9.26%) Senior Network Engineer
6 23 (8.52%) Network Architect
7 22 (8.15%) IT Engineer
8 17 (6.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 15 (5.56%) IT Support
10 14 (5.19%) Technical Architect
11 13 (4.81%) Network Specialist
12 12 (4.44%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 11 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Senior Network Specialist
15 9 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 9 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.93%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.48%) REST
3 2 (0.74%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.74%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.74%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.19%) Replication
4 12 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.70%) Driving Licence
7 9 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.33%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.96%) PKI
9 7 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.22%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.85%) Clustering
12 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.48%) SCADA
12 4 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.74%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.00%) Windows
2 23 (8.52%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.41%) Linux
4 12 (4.44%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.48%) SUSE
6 4 (1.48%) VMS
6 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
7 3 (1.11%) Rocky
7 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.74%) Unix
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.74%) Migration
2 46 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (17.04%) ITSM
3 45 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.81%) Validation
5 39 (14.44%) Network Segmentation
6 31 (11.48%) High Availability
7 28 (10.37%) Network Design
8 26 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (9.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (9.26%) Project Delivery
10 24 (8.89%) Zero Trust
11 22 (8.15%) ITIL
11 22 (8.15%) Runbook
12 19 (7.04%) Network Monitoring
13 18 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (5.93%) Change Control
14 16 (5.93%) CI/CD
15 15 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (5.56%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.19%) Python
2 23 (8.52%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.81%) Bash
4 6 (2.22%) VBScript
5 5 (1.85%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.48%) VB
7 2 (0.74%) SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 83 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 76 (28.15%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (24.81%) CCNP
5 50 (18.52%) CCNA
6 23 (8.52%) DV Cleared
7 19 (7.04%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (5.56%) Server+ Certification
9 11 (4.07%) CCIE
10 10 (3.70%) Degree
11 7 (2.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.11%) CISSP
13 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.74%) CISM
14 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 10 (3.70%) NCSC
3 8 (2.96%) SLA
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.85%) NIST
5 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (1.11%) GxP
5 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.74%) GMP
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 39 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.41%) vSphere
4 18 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (5.19%) Firmware
7 13 (4.81%) Hyper-V
8 8 (2.96%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.48%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.48%) NFS
11 3 (1.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.74%) Ceph
12 2 (0.74%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.37%) Docker
13 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.37%) QEMU
13 1 (0.37%) Snort
13 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (11.11%) Ansible
2 24 (8.89%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.78%) Terraform
4 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.44%) SCCM
6 11 (4.07%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.22%) VxRail
7 6 (2.22%) WSUS
8 4 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.48%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.48%) Nagios
8 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.11%) Grafana
9 3 (1.11%) Iperf
9 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.11%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.74%) Nmap
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 153 (56.67%) Cisco
2 54 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 53 (19.63%) VMware
4 52 (19.26%) Fortinet
5 49 (18.15%) Microsoft
6 34 (12.59%) F5
7 28 (10.37%) CheckPoint
8 27 (10.00%) Juniper
9 23 (8.52%) Aruba
10 22 (8.15%) ServiceNow
11 17 (6.30%) SolarWinds
12 14 (5.19%) Veeam
13 13 (4.81%) Arista
14 12 (4.44%) Meraki
15 11 (4.07%) Zscaler
16 10 (3.70%) Ekahau
17 8 (2.96%) Citrix
17 8 (2.96%) Dell
18 7 (2.59%) AppDynamics
18 7 (2.59%) NetApp