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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 354 384
Rank change year-on-year -27 +30 -55
Contract jobs citing VLAN 280 169 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.53% 5.12% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 114 80
10th Percentile £375 £219 £254
25th Percentile £413 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £588
90th Percentile £666 £660 £668
UK median daily rate £495 £447 £444
% change year-on-year +10.74% +0.73% -7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.85 -
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £34.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +38.24% +12.40% -8.94%

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 4,289 3,304 3,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.26% 11.77% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 2,089 2,260
10th Percentile £250 £222 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 174 169
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.94 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -36.79% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.27 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -22.51% -16.12% -11.49%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 82 £450 +5.88% 149
North of England -28 59 £500 +12.74% 51
South East -54 46 £488 +14.71% 110
South West -8 31 £495 +29.41% 27
North West -27 30 £519 +9.27% 35
Yorkshire -18 28 £500 +128.57% 12
Midlands -43 20 £250 -47.37% 41
East of England -17 17 £600 +30.43% 30
West Midlands -48 13 £250 -47.37% 30
East Midlands -6 7 - - 11
North East -39 1 - - 7
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 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.14%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.79%) Confluence
4 5 (1.79%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.71%) Apache
5 2 (0.71%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (26.79%) Azure
2 40 (14.29%) AWS
3 34 (12.14%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.36%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.21%) GitHub
6 18 (6.43%) GCP
7 12 (4.29%) IaaS
8 8 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.14%) PaaS
10 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.79%) Cohesity
10 5 (1.79%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.79%) SaaS
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (1.43%) Datadog
11 4 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.07%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 177 (63.21%) Firewall
2 113 (40.36%) DNS
3 102 (36.43%) BGP
4 91 (32.50%) DHCP
4 91 (32.50%) VPN
5 88 (31.43%) OSPF
6 78 (27.86%) WAN
7 66 (23.57%) TCP/IP
8 62 (22.14%) Network Security
9 61 (21.79%) LAN
10 58 (20.71%) Wireless
11 42 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (13.21%) SD-WAN
13 36 (12.86%) Cisco Nexus
14 34 (12.14%) SAN
15 28 (10.00%) VXLAN
16 26 (9.29%) IPsec
17 25 (8.93%) Multicast
17 25 (8.93%) WLAN
18 22 (7.86%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (5.36%) JIRA
2 14 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.64%) Git
4 7 (2.50%) GitLab
5 5 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.43%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.07%) Finance
4 16 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.21%) Banking
9 8 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.14%) Police
10 6 (2.14%) Retail
11 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.43%) Automotive
12 4 (1.43%) Games
13 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.07%) Legal
14 2 (0.71%) French Language
14 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 131 (46.79%) Network Engineer
2 60 (21.43%) Senior
3 49 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (15.36%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (8.57%) Architect
6 18 (6.43%) Network Architect
7 16 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 15 (5.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) IT Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Network Specialist
11 12 (4.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Senior Network Specialist
13 10 (3.57%) Support Engineer
14 9 (3.21%) IT Support
15 8 (2.86%) Network Implementation Engineer
15 8 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
15 8 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
15 8 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.36%) Terraform
2 14 (5.00%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.79%) REST
4 3 (1.07%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.71%) .NET
5 2 (0.71%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.71%) eBPF
5 2 (0.71%) gRPC
5 2 (0.71%) HTML
5 2 (0.71%) HTML5
5 2 (0.71%) JSON
5 2 (0.71%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.71%) ODBC
5 2 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (33.21%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.36%) PKI
4 14 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.64%) Replication
6 12 (4.29%) Operational Technology
6 12 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.93%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (3.21%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.86%) Digital Signage
11 7 (2.50%) Life Science
11 7 (2.50%) SCADA
11 7 (2.50%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.14%) CMDB
12 6 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.79%) IoT
13 5 (1.79%) Robotics
13 5 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.50%) Windows
2 42 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.79%) Linux
4 11 (3.93%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.86%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.14%) CentOS
7 6 (2.14%) Rocky
7 6 (2.14%) Unix
7 6 (2.14%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.07%) Android
8 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (18.93%) Migration
3 50 (17.86%) Validation
4 47 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (15.36%) ITSM
6 38 (13.57%) Network Segmentation
7 35 (12.50%) High Availability
8 34 (12.14%) Network Design
9 32 (11.43%) Project Delivery
10 31 (11.07%) ITIL
11 30 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (9.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (8.93%) Zero Trust
14 22 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.14%) CI/CD
15 20 (7.14%) Load Balancing
15 20 (7.14%) Runbook
16 19 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (6.79%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (6.43%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.43%) Python
2 34 (12.14%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.64%) Bash
4 7 (2.50%) VBScript
5 6 (2.14%) VB
6 5 (1.79%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.71%) Java
7 2 (0.71%) SQL
7 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.36%) Bicep
8 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 87 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 63 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (18.93%) CCNP
5 27 (9.64%) CCNA
6 22 (7.86%) DV Cleared
7 16 (5.71%) Degree
8 11 (3.93%) Network+ Certification
9 10 (3.57%) CCIE
10 9 (3.21%) Server+ Certification
11 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.79%) JNCIP
12 5 (1.79%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.07%) CISM
14 3 (1.07%) CISSP
14 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.36%) QA
2 11 (3.93%) SLA
3 7 (2.50%) NIST
4 6 (2.14%) GxP
4 6 (2.14%) NCSC
5 4 (1.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.43%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.71%) GDPR
7 2 (0.71%) GMP
7 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 61 (21.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.21%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.86%) vSphere
4 16 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.57%) Firmware
6 10 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.50%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.14%) KVM
9 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.43%) NFS
10 4 (1.43%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.71%) Ceph
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.36%) Docker
12 1 (0.36%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 50 (17.86%) Ansible
2 24 (8.57%) FortiGate
3 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.29%) SCCM
5 10 (3.57%) Kubernetes
6 9 (3.21%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.86%) Cisco Prime
8 7 (2.50%) Grafana
9 6 (2.14%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.43%) Nagios
10 4 (1.43%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.43%) systemd
11 3 (1.07%) Avamar
11 3 (1.07%) vMotion
11 3 (1.07%) WSUS
12 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.71%) SELinux
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.36%) Suricata
Vendors
1 163 (58.21%) Cisco
2 76 (27.14%) VMware
3 64 (22.86%) Microsoft
4 51 (18.21%) Fortinet
5 48 (17.14%) F5
6 43 (15.36%) Palo Alto
7 33 (11.79%) Juniper
8 27 (9.64%) ServiceNow
9 25 (8.93%) CheckPoint
10 20 (7.14%) Veeam
11 19 (6.79%) Aruba
12 18 (6.43%) Arista
12 18 (6.43%) SolarWinds
13 16 (5.71%) NetApp
14 15 (5.36%) Meraki
15 11 (3.93%) CyberArk
16 10 (3.57%) Zscaler
17 7 (2.50%) Dynatrace
17 7 (2.50%) Google
18 6 (2.14%) Remedy