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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 352 391
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 -44
Contract jobs citing VLAN 302 162 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.03% 4.84% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 107 81
10th Percentile £374 £223 £250
25th Percentile £413 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +2.94% -11.46%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £575
90th Percentile £651 £666 £668
UK median daily rate £475 £442 £425
% change year-on-year +7.41% +4.06% -11.46%
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 4,294 3,345 4,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.13% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 2,079 2,417
10th Percentile £263 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 168 253
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -25.89% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -47 91 £450 +12.36% 94
North of England -24 64 £500 +9.65% 27
South East -50 49 £550 +22.22% 55
North West -35 36 £519 +9.26% 13
South West -14 31 £495 +29.41% 19
Midlands -47 28 £413 -21.43% 28
Yorkshire -12 27 £500 +150.00% 10
West Midlands -50 14 £413 -7.30% 25
East Midlands -7 13 £275 -57.69% 3
East of England -21 12 £600 +54.84% 22
North East -45 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 17 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.99%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.66%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (29.14%) Azure
2 44 (14.57%) AWS
3 37 (12.25%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.26%) Entra ID
5 20 (6.62%) GitHub
6 18 (5.96%) GCP
7 12 (3.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (3.97%) IaaS
8 7 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.32%) SaaS
9 6 (1.99%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.99%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.99%) PaaS
9 6 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Cohesity
10 5 (1.66%) Datadog
11 4 (1.32%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 184 (60.93%) Firewall
2 117 (38.74%) DNS
3 115 (38.08%) BGP
4 104 (34.44%) OSPF
5 97 (32.12%) VPN
6 96 (31.79%) DHCP
7 91 (30.13%) WAN
8 71 (23.51%) Network Security
9 68 (22.52%) LAN
10 67 (22.19%) TCP/IP
11 60 (19.87%) Wireless
12 47 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
13 43 (14.24%) SD-WAN
14 40 (13.25%) SAN
15 35 (11.59%) Cisco Nexus
16 31 (10.26%) VXLAN
17 26 (8.61%) Cisco IOS
17 26 (8.61%) WLAN
18 25 (8.28%) IPsec
18 25 (8.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.64%) JIRA
3 10 (3.31%) Git
4 6 (1.99%) GitLab
5 5 (1.66%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 60 (19.87%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (11.26%) Finance
3 19 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (4.30%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.97%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.31%) Banking
6 10 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.32%) Police
8 7 (2.32%) Retail
9 6 (1.99%) Legal
9 6 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Automotive
11 4 (1.32%) Games
12 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Advertising
13 2 (0.66%) French Language
13 2 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 139 (46.03%) Network Engineer
2 64 (21.19%) Senior
3 50 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 46 (15.23%) Senior Network Engineer
5 29 (9.60%) Architect
6 20 (6.62%) IT Engineer
7 18 (5.96%) Cisco Engineer
7 18 (5.96%) Network Architect
8 17 (5.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 17 (5.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 14 (4.64%) Network Specialist
10 12 (3.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.97%) Senior Network Specialist
11 11 (3.64%) Support Engineer
12 10 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.31%) IT Support
12 10 (3.31%) Technical Architect
13 9 (2.98%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.25%) Terraform
2 13 (4.30%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.66%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.66%) REST
4 3 (0.99%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.66%) .NET
5 2 (0.66%) cloud-init
5 2 (0.66%) eBPF
5 2 (0.66%) gRPC
5 2 (0.66%) HTML
5 2 (0.66%) HTML5
5 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.66%) ODBC
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 99 (32.78%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.29%) Replication
3 18 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.96%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.30%) PKI
5 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.97%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.64%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.32%) Life Science
8 7 (2.32%) SCADA
8 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.99%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Clustering
10 5 (1.66%) CMDB
10 5 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (27.48%) Windows
2 44 (14.57%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.59%) Linux
4 14 (4.64%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.65%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.99%) CentOS
7 6 (1.99%) Rocky
7 6 (1.99%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.66%) Unix
9 4 (1.32%) SUSE
9 4 (1.32%) VMS
10 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.66%) Android
12 1 (0.33%) Debian
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (20.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 62 (20.53%) Migration
2 60 (19.87%) Validation
3 50 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (14.24%) High Availability
4 43 (14.24%) ITSM
5 36 (11.92%) Network Segmentation
6 34 (11.26%) ITIL
7 32 (10.60%) Network Design
7 32 (10.60%) Project Delivery
8 28 (9.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (8.61%) Zero Trust
10 23 (7.62%) Runbook
11 22 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (7.28%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (6.62%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (6.62%) DevOps
12 20 (6.62%) Load Balancing
13 18 (5.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.88%) Python
2 37 (12.25%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.30%) Bash
4 6 (1.99%) VB
4 6 (1.99%) VBScript
5 5 (1.66%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.32%) SQL
7 2 (0.66%) Java
7 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 100 (33.11%) Security Cleared
2 74 (24.50%) Cisco Certification
3 72 (23.84%) SC Cleared
4 61 (20.20%) CCNP
5 37 (12.25%) CCNA
6 23 (7.62%) DV Cleared
7 16 (5.30%) Degree
8 13 (4.30%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.30%) Network+ Certification
9 12 (3.97%) CCIE
10 11 (3.64%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (1.66%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.32%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.99%) CISM
13 3 (0.99%) CISSP
13 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.64%) QA
2 11 (3.64%) SLA
3 7 (2.32%) NIST
4 6 (1.99%) GxP
4 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.99%) NCSC
5 4 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.32%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) GMP
6 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 63 (20.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (12.91%) Active Directory
3 24 (7.95%) vSphere
4 20 (6.62%) Hyper-V
5 19 (6.29%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.30%) Firmware
8 11 (3.64%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.32%) BitLocker
10 6 (1.99%) KVM
10 6 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.32%) NFS
12 3 (0.99%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.66%) Ceph
14 1 (0.33%) Docker
14 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.33%) QEMU
14 1 (0.33%) Snort
14 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (17.55%) Ansible
2 25 (8.28%) FortiGate
3 21 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.30%) SCCM
4 13 (4.30%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.98%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.99%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (1.99%) NetBackup
6 6 (1.99%) WSUS
7 4 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.32%) Grafana
7 4 (1.32%) Nagios
7 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.32%) systemd
7 4 (1.32%) VxRail
8 3 (0.99%) Avamar
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.99%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.99%) vMotion
9 2 (0.66%) SELinux
Vendors
1 176 (58.28%) Cisco
2 81 (26.82%) VMware
3 64 (21.19%) Microsoft
4 61 (20.20%) Fortinet
5 47 (15.56%) F5
5 47 (15.56%) Palo Alto
6 33 (10.93%) Juniper
7 28 (9.27%) CheckPoint
8 26 (8.61%) ServiceNow
9 23 (7.62%) Aruba
10 20 (6.62%) Arista
11 18 (5.96%) Veeam
12 15 (4.97%) SolarWinds
13 11 (3.64%) CyberArk
13 11 (3.64%) Meraki
13 11 (3.64%) NetApp
13 11 (3.64%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.98%) Dell
15 8 (2.65%) Google
16 7 (2.32%) Dynatrace
235 VLAN jobs in England