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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 349 383
Rank change year-on-year -2 +34 -51
Contract jobs citing VLAN 306 163 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.60% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.10% 5.03% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 105 83
10th Percentile £375 £219 £251
25th Percentile £413 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £588
90th Percentile £656 £669 £671
UK median daily rate £475 £446 £431
% change year-on-year +6.50% +3.42% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.32% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £60.88 -
90th Percentile £77.41 £64.70 -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £45.75 £30.25
% change year-on-year +27.32% +51.24% -5.10%

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 4,312 3,242 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.33% 11.85% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,565 2,020 2,310
10th Percentile £253 £235 £248
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.03% +2.12%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £505
% change year-on-year +4.69% -5.43% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 163 223
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.02 £14.33
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.08 £22.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -36.95% -15.69% -9.72%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -45 96 £456 +12.24% 137
North of England -27 62 £500 +11.86% 36
South East -54 50 £550 +22.22% 99
North West -24 35 £519 +9.27% 23
South West -26 30 £495 +29.41% 25
Midlands -36 27 £350 -26.32% 37
Yorkshire -10 26 £500 +173.97% 9
East Midlands -1 14 £275 -32.52% 8
East of England -32 13 £600 +34.83% 26
West Midlands -54 12 - - 29
North East -38 1 - - 5
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 16 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.96%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.63%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.65%) Apache
5 2 (0.65%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.65%) Confluence
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (29.41%) Azure
2 46 (15.03%) AWS
3 36 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.46%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.19%) GitHub
6 18 (5.88%) GCP
7 13 (4.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (3.92%) IaaS
9 7 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.29%) SaaS
10 6 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.96%) PaaS
10 6 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.63%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.63%) Datadog
11 5 (1.63%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.63%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.31%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 187 (61.11%) Firewall
2 119 (38.89%) DNS
3 114 (37.25%) BGP
4 101 (33.01%) OSPF
5 99 (32.35%) VPN
6 97 (31.70%) DHCP
7 87 (28.43%) WAN
8 68 (22.22%) Network Security
9 67 (21.90%) TCP/IP
10 64 (20.92%) LAN
10 64 (20.92%) Wireless
11 45 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (13.40%) SD-WAN
13 39 (12.75%) SAN
14 36 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
15 30 (9.80%) VXLAN
16 29 (9.48%) Multicast
17 27 (8.82%) IPsec
18 26 (8.50%) Cisco IOS
19 25 (8.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.92%) Git
3 11 (3.59%) JIRA
4 6 (1.96%) GitLab
5 5 (1.63%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 63 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.11%) Finance
3 32 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.27%) Banking
7 10 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.29%) Police
9 7 (2.29%) Retail
10 6 (1.96%) Legal
10 6 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.31%) Automotive
12 4 (1.31%) Games
13 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Advertising
14 2 (0.65%) French Language
14 2 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 142 (46.41%) Network Engineer
2 64 (20.92%) Senior
3 52 (16.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (15.03%) Senior Network Engineer
5 28 (9.15%) Architect
6 19 (6.21%) Cisco Engineer
6 19 (6.21%) IT Engineer
7 18 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 17 (5.56%) Network Architect
8 17 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 14 (4.58%) Network Specialist
10 13 (4.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Senior Network Specialist
12 10 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.27%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.27%) Technical Architect
13 9 (2.94%) IT Support
13 9 (2.94%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.73%) Terraform
2 12 (3.92%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.63%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.63%) REST
4 3 (0.98%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.65%) .NET
5 2 (0.65%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.65%) eBPF
5 2 (0.65%) gRPC
5 2 (0.65%) HTML
5 2 (0.65%) HTML5
5 2 (0.65%) JSON
5 2 (0.65%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.65%) ODBC
5 2 (0.65%) YAML
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 101 (33.01%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 19 (6.21%) Replication
3 18 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.23%) PKI
5 15 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.92%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.59%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.27%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.61%) Digital Signage
9 8 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.29%) Life Science
10 7 (2.29%) SCADA
11 6 (1.96%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.63%) Clustering
12 5 (1.63%) CMDB
12 5 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 82 (26.80%) Windows
2 44 (14.38%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.44%) Linux
4 14 (4.58%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.61%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.96%) CentOS
7 6 (1.96%) Rocky
7 6 (1.96%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.63%) Unix
9 4 (1.31%) SUSE
9 4 (1.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.65%) Android
12 1 (0.33%) Debian
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (20.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (20.26%) Migration
3 56 (18.30%) Validation
4 51 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.05%) High Availability
5 43 (14.05%) ITSM
6 38 (12.42%) Network Segmentation
7 34 (11.11%) ITIL
8 33 (10.78%) Network Design
8 33 (10.78%) Project Delivery
9 29 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (8.50%) Zero Trust
11 21 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (6.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (6.86%) Load Balancing
11 21 (6.86%) Runbook
12 20 (6.54%) CI/CD
13 19 (6.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.65%) Python
2 38 (12.42%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.23%) Bash
4 7 (2.29%) VBScript
5 6 (1.96%) VB
6 5 (1.63%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.65%) Java
7 2 (0.65%) SQL
7 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 99 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 72 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 61 (19.93%) CCNP
4 37 (12.09%) CCNA
5 23 (7.52%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.90%) Degree
7 13 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.25%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (3.59%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (2.94%) CCIE
10 5 (1.63%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.31%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.98%) CISM
12 3 (0.98%) CISSP
12 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.58%) QA
2 11 (3.59%) SLA
3 7 (2.29%) NIST
4 6 (1.96%) GxP
4 6 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.96%) NCSC
5 4 (1.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.31%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.65%) GDPR
6 2 (0.65%) GMP
6 2 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 65 (21.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (13.07%) Active Directory
3 25 (8.17%) vSphere
4 20 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (6.21%) Hyper-V
5 19 (6.21%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.90%) Firmware
7 11 (3.59%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.29%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.96%) KVM
9 6 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.31%) NFS
11 3 (0.98%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.65%) Ceph
12 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.33%) Docker
13 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
13 1 (0.33%) QEMU
13 1 (0.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 51 (16.67%) Ansible
2 25 (8.17%) FortiGate
3 21 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.58%) vCenter Server
5 13 (4.25%) SCCM
6 9 (2.94%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.61%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.96%) WSUS
9 4 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.31%) Grafana
9 4 (1.31%) Nagios
9 4 (1.31%) systemd
9 4 (1.31%) VxRail
10 3 (0.98%) Avamar
10 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.98%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.98%) vMotion
11 2 (0.65%) SELinux
Vendors
1 179 (58.50%) Cisco
2 82 (26.80%) VMware
3 65 (21.24%) Microsoft
4 58 (18.95%) Fortinet
5 49 (16.01%) F5
6 46 (15.03%) Palo Alto
7 34 (11.11%) Juniper
8 27 (8.82%) ServiceNow
9 26 (8.50%) CheckPoint
10 21 (6.86%) Aruba
11 20 (6.54%) Arista
12 18 (5.88%) Veeam
13 15 (4.90%) Meraki
13 15 (4.90%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.92%) NetApp
15 11 (3.59%) CyberArk
15 11 (3.59%) Zscaler
16 9 (2.94%) Dell
17 7 (2.29%) Dynatrace
17 7 (2.29%) Google
345 VLAN jobs in England