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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 360 384
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -34
Contract jobs citing VLAN 300 159 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.97% 4.72% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 104 78
10th Percentile £375 £225 £250
25th Percentile £413 £361 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -0.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £584
90th Percentile £653 £671 £669
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 0
10th Percentile £18.50 £57.20 -
25th Percentile £33.70 £58.63 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.13 -
90th Percentile £77.41 £66.40 -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.05% - -

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 4,304 3,367 4,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.22% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,091 2,476
10th Percentile £263 £245 £243
25th Percentile £400 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -47 92 £450 +12.36% 30
North of England -28 64 £500 +9.65% 19
South East -56 47 £475 +5.56% 31
North West -28 37 £519 +9.27% 10
South West -21 30 £495 +29.41% 17
Midlands -45 29 £413 -21.43% 21
Yorkshire -15 26 £488 +143.75% 9
West Midlands -58 15 £413 -7.30% 19
East Midlands -9 13 £275 -57.69% 2
East of England -24 11 £600 +54.84% 11
North East -41 1 - - 2
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 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.00%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.67%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (29.00%) Azure
2 43 (14.33%) AWS
3 37 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.00%) GCP
5 18 (6.00%) GitHub
6 13 (4.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (4.00%) IaaS
8 8 (2.67%) SaaS
9 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.33%) PaaS
9 7 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.00%) Datadog
10 6 (2.00%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.00%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.67%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.33%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.00%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 183 (61.00%) Firewall
2 116 (38.67%) DNS
3 113 (37.67%) BGP
4 102 (34.00%) OSPF
5 96 (32.00%) VPN
6 95 (31.67%) DHCP
7 90 (30.00%) WAN
8 70 (23.33%) Network Security
9 69 (23.00%) LAN
10 68 (22.67%) TCP/IP
11 60 (20.00%) Wireless
12 48 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (13.67%) SD-WAN
14 40 (13.33%) SAN
15 36 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 30 (10.00%) VXLAN
17 26 (8.67%) Multicast
17 26 (8.67%) WLAN
18 24 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
18 24 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.67%) Git
3 10 (3.33%) JIRA
4 6 (2.00%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.67%) GitLab
6 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 61 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (11.33%) Finance
4 18 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.67%) Banking
8 10 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.33%) Police
10 7 (2.33%) Retail
11 6 (2.00%) Legal
11 6 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.33%) Automotive
13 4 (1.33%) Games
14 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.67%) Advertising
15 2 (0.67%) French Language
15 2 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 139 (46.33%) Network Engineer
2 63 (21.00%) Senior
3 48 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (15.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 28 (9.33%) Architect
6 20 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 17 (5.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 17 (5.67%) Network Architect
9 16 (5.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 14 (4.67%) Network Specialist
11 12 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.67%) Senior Network Specialist
12 11 (3.67%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.33%) IT Support
13 10 (3.33%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 9 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.67%) Terraform
2 15 (5.00%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.00%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.00%) REST
4 2 (0.67%) .NET
4 2 (0.67%) cloud-init
4 2 (0.67%) eBPF
4 2 (0.67%) HTML
4 2 (0.67%) HTML5
4 2 (0.67%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.67%) ODBC
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 97 (32.33%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.33%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.33%) Replication
3 18 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.33%) PKI
5 15 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (4.00%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.67%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.67%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.33%) Life Science
8 7 (2.33%) SCADA
8 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.00%) Digital Signage
9 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.67%) Clustering
10 5 (1.67%) CMDB
10 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (27.67%) Windows
2 43 (14.33%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.00%) Linux
4 14 (4.67%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.00%) CentOS
7 6 (2.00%) Rocky
7 6 (2.00%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.33%) SUSE
8 4 (1.33%) Unix
8 4 (1.33%) VMS
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.67%) Android
11 1 (0.33%) Debian
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (21.00%) Migration
2 60 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 55 (18.33%) Validation
4 51 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (14.67%) ITSM
6 41 (13.67%) High Availability
7 35 (11.67%) Network Segmentation
8 34 (11.33%) ITIL
9 33 (11.00%) Network Design
10 32 (10.67%) Project Delivery
11 28 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 27 (9.00%) Zero Trust
13 26 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (7.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (7.00%) Runbook
16 20 (6.67%) DevOps
17 18 (6.00%) Load Balancing
18 17 (5.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.67%) Python
2 35 (11.67%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.67%) Bash
4 6 (2.00%) VB
4 6 (2.00%) VBScript
5 5 (1.67%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.33%) SQL
7 2 (0.67%) Java
7 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 96 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.33%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (23.00%) SC Cleared
4 62 (20.67%) CCNP
5 38 (12.67%) CCNA
6 22 (7.33%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.00%) Degree
8 13 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.33%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.67%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (3.33%) CCIE
11 5 (1.67%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.33%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.00%) CISM
13 3 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.33%) QA
2 12 (4.00%) SLA
3 6 (2.00%) GxP
3 6 (2.00%) NCSC
3 6 (2.00%) NIST
4 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.33%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.67%) GDPR
7 2 (0.67%) GMP
7 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 62 (20.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (13.00%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.33%) vSphere
4 19 (6.33%) Hyper-V
4 19 (6.33%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (5.33%) Firmware
5 16 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.67%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.33%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (2.00%) KVM
9 4 (1.33%) NFS
10 3 (1.00%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.67%) Ceph
12 1 (0.33%) Docker
12 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.33%) QEMU
12 1 (0.33%) Snort
12 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (16.33%) Ansible
2 23 (7.67%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.67%) SCCM
5 12 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.67%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
7 6 (2.00%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.00%) WSUS
8 5 (1.67%) Grafana
9 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.33%) Nagios
9 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.33%) systemd
9 4 (1.33%) VxRail
10 3 (1.00%) Avamar
10 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.00%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.67%) SELinux
11 2 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 172 (57.33%) Cisco
2 79 (26.33%) VMware
3 65 (21.67%) Microsoft
4 58 (19.33%) Fortinet
5 48 (16.00%) Palo Alto
6 44 (14.67%) F5
7 30 (10.00%) Juniper
8 29 (9.67%) CheckPoint
9 26 (8.67%) ServiceNow
10 24 (8.00%) Aruba
11 20 (6.67%) Arista
12 17 (5.67%) Veeam
13 16 (5.33%) SolarWinds
14 11 (3.67%) CyberArk
14 11 (3.67%) Meraki
14 11 (3.67%) Zscaler
15 10 (3.33%) NetApp
16 9 (3.00%) Dynatrace
17 8 (2.67%) Dell
17 8 (2.67%) Google