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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 343 418
Rank change year-on-year -1 +75 -40
Contract jobs citing VLAN 273 140 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.82% 4.49% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 92 87
10th Percentile £306 £203 £188
25th Percentile £413 £325 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% +8.13% -15.34%
75th Percentile £569 £536 £538
90th Percentile £625 £615 £665
UK median daily rate £474 £435 £413
% change year-on-year +8.97% +5.45% -13.16%
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 £78.32 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +28.70% +4.55% +73.91%

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 4,005 3,115 4,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 12.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 1,953 2,876
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 122 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.03 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.79% +3.13% +118.16%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -50 74 £450 +5.88% 49
North of England -11 73 £491 +4.39% 29
North West +22 59 £508 +6.84% 18
South East -54 39 £495 +10.00% 67
Midlands -48 32 £413 -31.82% 28
South West -13 27 £495 +65.00% 20
West Midlands -54 17 £413 +184.48% 18
East Midlands -18 14 £275 -57.69% 10
Yorkshire -50 13 £329 +46.11% 8
East of England -38 5 £540 +188.00% 11
North East - 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 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) CloudStack
Applications
1 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.27%) Azure
2 33 (12.09%) AWS
3 23 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.66%) IaaS
6 8 (2.93%) GCP
6 8 (2.93%) Nutanix
7 7 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.56%) PaaS
7 7 (2.56%) SaaS
8 6 (2.20%) Datadog
8 6 (2.20%) GitHub
9 5 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.83%) Cohesity
10 4 (1.47%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.73%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 164 (60.07%) Firewall
2 85 (31.14%) BGP
2 85 (31.14%) WAN
3 84 (30.77%) DNS
4 81 (29.67%) OSPF
5 76 (27.84%) DHCP
5 76 (27.84%) VPN
6 73 (26.74%) Network Security
7 70 (25.64%) LAN
8 49 (17.95%) TCP/IP
9 46 (16.85%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (15.75%) Wireless
11 32 (11.72%) SD-WAN
12 30 (10.99%) SAN
13 27 (9.89%) NX-OS
13 27 (9.89%) VXLAN
14 24 (8.79%) Cisco IOS
14 24 (8.79%) Structured Cabling
15 23 (8.42%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (8.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Chocolatey
1 6 (2.20%) JIRA
2 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.10%) Git
4 2 (0.73%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 71 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (6.96%) Finance
4 13 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.66%) Banking
5 10 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.56%) Legal
6 7 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.73%) Aviation
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Police
10 2 (0.73%) Retail
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (44.69%) Network Engineer
2 32 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.36%) Senior
4 29 (10.62%) Architect
5 27 (9.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 21 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 21 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (6.59%) IT Support
8 15 (5.49%) Network Architect
9 14 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Network Specialist
10 11 (4.03%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.30%) Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Network Security Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 8 (2.93%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.33%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.47%) REST
3 2 (0.73%) cloud-init
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.73%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.73%) XMPP
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (33.70%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.76%) Replication
4 9 (3.30%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.93%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.83%) PKI
8 4 (1.47%) Clustering
8 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.47%) SCADA
8 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.73%) Life Science
10 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (19.05%) Windows
2 15 (5.49%) Linux
2 15 (5.49%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.83%) VMS
6 4 (1.47%) SUSE
6 4 (1.47%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.51%) Migration
2 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (15.38%) ITSM
4 38 (13.92%) Network Segmentation
5 37 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (13.55%) Validation
6 30 (10.99%) High Availability
7 28 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (10.26%) Network Monitoring
8 27 (9.89%) Network Design
9 26 (9.52%) Project Delivery
10 23 (8.42%) ITIL
11 22 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (6.96%) Change Control
12 19 (6.96%) Runbook
13 17 (6.23%) RBAC
14 15 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (5.13%) Mentoring
15 14 (5.13%) Root Cause Analysis
16 13 (4.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.09%) Python
2 18 (6.59%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.13%) Bash
4 6 (2.20%) VBScript
5 4 (1.47%) SQL
5 4 (1.47%) VB
6 3 (1.10%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.37%) Go
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 108 (39.56%) Security Cleared
2 91 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 85 (31.14%) Cisco Certification
4 76 (27.84%) CCNP
5 61 (22.34%) CCNA
6 20 (7.33%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (5.86%) DV Cleared
8 15 (5.49%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (3.66%) Degree
10 9 (3.30%) CCIE
11 8 (2.93%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.83%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.47%) PMP
14 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.10%) CISSP
14 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
15 2 (0.73%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.03%) SLA
2 10 (3.66%) QA
3 4 (1.47%) NCSC
3 4 (1.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.10%) GDPR
4 3 (1.10%) GxP
4 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.73%) GMP
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 31 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.79%) vSphere
4 18 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.76%) Firmware
6 10 (3.66%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.47%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.47%) NFS
9 3 (1.10%) Ceph
9 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.37%) Docker
11 1 (0.37%) QEMU
11 1 (0.37%) RHEV
11 1 (0.37%) SRDF
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.37%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 19 (6.96%) Ansible
3 13 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.40%) SCCM
5 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.03%) Terraform
5 11 (4.03%) VxRail
6 9 (3.30%) Nagios
7 6 (2.20%) WSUS
8 5 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.10%) Iperf
9 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.73%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Nmap
10 2 (0.73%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.73%) SELinux
Vendors
1 155 (56.78%) Cisco
2 52 (19.05%) Palo Alto
3 47 (17.22%) Microsoft
4 44 (16.12%) Fortinet
5 43 (15.75%) VMware
6 29 (10.62%) F5
7 27 (9.89%) Juniper
8 23 (8.42%) CheckPoint
9 22 (8.06%) ServiceNow
10 21 (7.69%) Aruba
11 18 (6.59%) SolarWinds
12 16 (5.86%) Veeam
13 14 (5.13%) Dell
14 12 (4.40%) Meraki
15 10 (3.66%) Arista
15 10 (3.66%) Ekahau
16 8 (2.93%) Citrix
16 8 (2.93%) Zscaler
17 7 (2.56%) AppDynamics
17 7 (2.56%) Dynatrace