VLAN Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Virtual LAN (VLAN) UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	407	441	350
Rank change year-on-year	+34	-91
Contract jobs citing VLAN	175	194	299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.41%	0.39%	0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	3.01%	2.47%	3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	122	110	162
Median daily rate	£388	£355	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.15%	+1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£178	£231	£200
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£450	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£395	£360	£300
% change year-on-year	+9.72%	+20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	4	15
Median hourly rate	£36.75	£27.75	£29.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+32.43%	-6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£24.71	£10.95	£16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.00	£40.00	£41.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.00	£27.75	£33.00
% change year-on-year	+51.35%	-15.90%

VLAN is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	5810	7839	7552
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	13.68%	15.88%	14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	3455	4850	4319
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£363
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£220	£240	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£368	£345
% change year-on-year	+2.04%	+6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	350	356	439
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£28.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.21%	+22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£28.00	£32.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-13.84%	+30.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing VLAN as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing VLAN in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for VLAN in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing VLAN in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for VLAN in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing VLAN in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for VLAN in England

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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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+24	68	£363	+2.11%	30
South East	+20	34	£391	-2.18%	17
North West	+37	29	£413	+7.14%	14
South West	-3	16	£175	-46.15%	5
Yorkshire	+30	14	£360	+20.00%	6
West Midlands	+13	7	£400	+12.67%	3
East of England	-18	3	£415	+18.57%	7
East Midlands	-8	2	-	-	6
North East	+65	1	£338	+35.00%	3
Midlands	-	1	£400	-	9
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing VLAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for VLAN.

1	198 (58.06%)	Cisco
2	173 (50.73%)	Firewall
3	144 (42.23%)	Cisco Certification
4	124 (36.36%)	WAN
5	118 (34.60%)	VPN
6	117 (34.31%)	LAN
6	117 (34.31%)	Windows
7	91 (26.69%)	MPLS
8	90 (26.39%)	TCP/IP
9	86 (25.22%)	Active Directory
10	84 (24.63%)	OSPF
11	83 (24.34%)	DNS
12	81 (23.75%)	CCNA
13	77 (22.58%)	CCNP
13	77 (22.58%)	BGP

14	72 (21.11%)	Security Cleared
15	70 (20.53%)	VMware
16	69 (20.23%)	DHCP
17	65 (19.06%)	Data Centre
18	62 (18.18%)	Microsoft
19	58 (17.01%)	Migration
20	57 (16.72%)	ITIL
21	56 (16.42%)	SC Cleared
22	55 (16.13%)	Juniper
23	47 (13.78%)	CCIE
24	45 (13.20%)	VoIP
24	45 (13.20%)	Network Security
25	44 (12.90%)	Wireless
25	44 (12.90%)	Windows Server
26	42 (12.32%)	VMware Infrastructure

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	24 (7.04%)	MS Exchange
2	20 (5.87%)	IIS
3	12 (3.52%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	10 (2.93%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	6 (1.76%)	Apache
5	6 (1.76%)	Exchange Server 2007
6	4 (1.17%)	OpenStack
6	4 (1.17%)	SharePoint
6	4 (1.17%)	Tomcat
7	3 (0.88%)	WebLogic
8	2 (0.59%)	WebSphere
9	1 (0.29%)	BizTalk Server
9	1 (0.29%)	Confluence
9	1 (0.29%)	Elasticsearch
9	1 (0.29%)	iPlanet
9	1 (0.29%)	JBoss
9	1 (0.29%)	MQSeries
9	1 (0.29%)	nginx
9	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Coherence
9	1 (0.29%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	13 (3.81%)	Microsoft Office
2	6 (1.76%)	MS Visio
3	2 (0.59%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.29%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	1 (0.29%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay

Cloud Services
1	30 (8.80%)	Microsoft Azure
2	28 (8.21%)	Office 365
3	14 (4.11%)	Amazon AWS
4	8 (2.35%)	IaaS
5	6 (1.76%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	5 (1.47%)	PaaS
7	4 (1.17%)	Azure Active Directory
7	4 (1.17%)	Mimecast
7	4 (1.17%)	SaaS
8	3 (0.88%)	Cloud Computing
9	2 (0.59%)	Amazon EC2
10	1 (0.29%)	Amazon ELB
10	1 (0.29%)	Amazon S3
10	1 (0.29%)	G Suite
10	1 (0.29%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	173 (50.73%)	Firewall
2	124 (36.36%)	WAN
3	118 (34.60%)	VPN
4	117 (34.31%)	LAN
5	91 (26.69%)	MPLS
6	90 (26.39%)	TCP/IP
7	84 (24.63%)	OSPF
8	83 (24.34%)	DNS
9	77 (22.58%)	BGP
10	69 (20.23%)	DHCP
11	45 (13.20%)	Network Security
11	45 (13.20%)	VoIP
12	44 (12.90%)	Wireless
13	36 (10.56%)	Wi-Fi
14	34 (9.97%)	Cisco ASA
15	32 (9.38%)	SNMP
16	31 (9.09%)	Cisco IOS
17	24 (7.04%)	IPv6
18	23 (6.74%)	EIGRP
18	23 (6.74%)	IPsec

Database & Business Intelligence
1	20 (5.87%)	SQL Server
2	7 (2.05%)	SQL Server 2008
2	7 (2.05%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
3	5 (1.47%)	MS Access
3	5 (1.47%)	MySQL
4	4 (1.17%)	Amazon RDS
4	4 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2012
5	3 (0.88%)	SQL Server 2016
6	2 (0.59%)	Big Data
6	2 (0.59%)	SQL Server 2000
6	2 (0.59%)	SQL Server 2005
6	2 (0.59%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	1 (0.29%)	Azure SQL Database
7	1 (0.29%)	FileMaker
7	1 (0.29%)	NoSQL
7	1 (0.29%)	Oracle Reports
7	1 (0.29%)	PostgreSQL
7	1 (0.29%)	Redis
7	1 (0.29%)	Relational Database

Development Applications
1	13 (3.81%)	Visual Studio
2	8 (2.35%)	Jenkins
3	6 (1.76%)	Git (software)
4	3 (0.88%)	Ant
4	3 (0.88%)	Gerrit
5	2 (0.59%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	2 (0.59%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	2 (0.59%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5	2 (0.59%)	VSS/SourceSafe
6	1 (0.29%)	JIRA
6	1 (0.29%)	Maven
6	1 (0.29%)	MSI
6	1 (0.29%)	Redmine

General
1	39 (11.44%)	Telecoms
2	29 (8.50%)	Finance
3	16 (4.69%)	Banking
4	13 (3.81%)	Military
5	12 (3.52%)	Manufacturing
6	4 (1.17%)	Back Office
6	4 (1.17%)	Local Government
7	3 (0.88%)	Billing
7	3 (0.88%)	Law
7	3 (0.88%)	Multimedia
8	2 (0.59%)	Electronics
8	2 (0.59%)	Investment Banking
8	2 (0.59%)	Music Industry
8	2 (0.59%)	Retail
9	1 (0.29%)	Legal
9	1 (0.29%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	109 (31.96%)	Network Engineer
2	53 (15.54%)	Architect
3	39 (11.44%)	Network Architect
4	37 (10.85%)	Support Engineer
5	31 (9.09%)	Cisco Engineer
6	26 (7.62%)	Cisco Network Engineer
7	21 (6.16%)	Senior Network Engineer
8	20 (5.87%)	Analyst
9	18 (5.28%)	Network Support
9	18 (5.28%)	NOC Engineer
10	16 (4.69%)	Consultant
10	16 (4.69%)	Network Support Engineer
11	15 (4.40%)	Infrastructure Engineer
12	12 (3.52%)	3rd Line Engineer
12	12 (3.52%)	3rd Line Support
13	11 (3.23%)	2nd Line Support
13	11 (3.23%)	Administrator
13	11 (3.23%)	Cisco Architect
13	11 (3.23%)	Cisco Network Architect
13	11 (3.23%)	DevOps Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	16 (4.69%)	802.1X
2	7 (2.05%)	.NET
3	6 (1.76%)	.NET Framework
4	5 (1.47%)	HTML
4	5 (1.47%)	jQuery
4	5 (1.47%)	XML
5	3 (0.88%)	LAMP
5	3 (0.88%)	Middleware
6	2 (0.59%)	LEMP Stack
6	2 (0.59%)	RESTful
6	2 (0.59%)	RFC 2547
6	2 (0.59%)	YAML
7	1 (0.29%)	Elastic Stack
7	1 (0.29%)	libvirt
7	1 (0.29%)	OAuth
7	1 (0.29%)	Oracle GoldenGate
7	1 (0.29%)	RabbitMQ
7	1 (0.29%)	SAML
7	1 (0.29%)	Spring Boot
7	1 (0.29%)	WAP

Miscellaneous
1	65 (19.06%)	Data Centre
2	20 (5.87%)	Analytical Skills
3	14 (4.11%)	Hybrid Cloud
3	14 (4.11%)	Video Conferencing
4	10 (2.93%)	NHS
5	9 (2.64%)	Computer Science
6	8 (2.35%)	Clustering
7	7 (2.05%)	BBC
7	7 (2.05%)	Driving Licence
7	7 (2.05%)	PKI
8	6 (1.76%)	Management Information System
8	6 (1.76%)	Virtual Team
9	5 (1.47%)	Fintech
10	4 (1.17%)	Replication
10	4 (1.17%)	Smartphone
10	4 (1.17%)	STB
11	3 (0.88%)	Embedded Systems
11	3 (0.88%)	FlexPod
11	3 (0.88%)	Mainframe
12	2 (0.59%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	117 (34.31%)	Windows
2	44 (12.90%)	Windows Server
3	33 (9.68%)	Linux
3	33 (9.68%)	Windows Server 2012
4	30 (8.80%)	Windows 10
5	29 (8.50%)	Windows Server 2008
6	20 (5.87%)	Windows 7
7	16 (4.69%)	Windows Server 2003
8	9 (2.64%)	AIX
8	9 (2.64%)	Unix
9	8 (2.35%)	Windows 8
10	7 (2.05%)	Solaris
11	5 (1.47%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	5 (1.47%)	VMS
12	4 (1.17%)	CentOS
13	3 (0.88%)	Apple iOS
13	3 (0.88%)	Debian
13	3 (0.88%)	HPUX
13	3 (0.88%)	SUSE
13	3 (0.88%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	58 (17.01%)	Migration
2	57 (16.72%)	ITIL
3	41 (12.02%)	Network Design
4	31 (9.09%)	Load Balancing
4	31 (9.09%)	Network Management
5	17 (4.99%)	Project Management
6	16 (4.69%)	Continuous Improvement
6	16 (4.69%)	Disaster Recovery
7	15 (4.40%)	Change Management
8	14 (4.11%)	High Availability
9	13 (3.81%)	Configuration Management
9	13 (3.81%)	DevOps
9	13 (3.81%)	SOA
10	12 (3.52%)	People Management
11	11 (3.23%)	Capacity Management
11	11 (3.23%)	Cybersecurity
12	10 (2.93%)	Service Management
13	9 (2.64%)	Patch Management
14	8 (2.35%)	Security Hardening
14	8 (2.35%)	Security Patching

Programming Languages
1	35 (10.26%)	PowerShell
2	28 (8.21%)	SQL
3	9 (2.64%)	Perl
4	8 (2.35%)	Bash Shell
5	7 (2.05%)	Python
6	6 (1.76%)	C#
6	6 (1.76%)	Java
7	5 (1.47%)	C
7	5 (1.47%)	Delphi
7	5 (1.47%)	JavaScript
7	5 (1.47%)	PHP
8	3 (0.88%)	Ruby
8	3 (0.88%)	Shell Script
9	2 (0.59%)	VBScript
10	1 (0.29%)	C++
10	1 (0.29%)	C-shell
10	1 (0.29%)	Korn
10	1 (0.29%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	144 (42.23%)	Cisco Certification
2	81 (23.75%)	CCNA
3	77 (22.58%)	CCNP
4	72 (21.11%)	Security Cleared
5	56 (16.42%)	SC Cleared
6	47 (13.78%)	CCIE
7	26 (7.62%)	CCDP
8	24 (7.04%)	Degree
9	14 (4.11%)	JNCIA
10	13 (3.81%)	DV Cleared
10	13 (3.81%)	JNCIE
10	13 (3.81%)	Microsoft Certification
11	12 (3.52%)	JNCIS
12	11 (3.23%)	CCDA
13	10 (2.93%)	MCSE
14	8 (2.35%)	Computer Science Degree
15	5 (1.47%)	ISEB
15	5 (1.47%)	ITIL Certification
16	4 (1.17%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
17	3 (0.88%)	NCDA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	15 (4.40%)	SLA
2	6 (1.76%)	PCI DSS
3	5 (1.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	3 (0.88%)	GMP
4	3 (0.88%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	1 (0.29%)	MiFID
5	1 (0.29%)	PMO

System Software
1	86 (25.22%)	Active Directory
2	42 (12.32%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	17 (4.99%)	Hyper-V
4	11 (3.23%)	vSphere
5	6 (1.76%)	XenApp
6	5 (1.47%)	KVM
6	5 (1.47%)	VMware ESXi
7	4 (1.17%)	Virtual Machines
8	3 (0.88%)	iptables
8	3 (0.88%)	NFS
8	3 (0.88%)	Terminal Services
8	3 (0.88%)	VMware Server
9	2 (0.59%)	Citrix Presentation Server
9	2 (0.59%)	Microsoft App-V
9	2 (0.59%)	Oracle RAC
9	2 (0.59%)	VirtualBox
9	2 (0.59%)	Xen
9	2 (0.59%)	XenServer
10	1 (0.29%)	Docker
10	1 (0.29%)	pfSense

Systems Management
1	22 (6.45%)	Cisco Prime
2	19 (5.57%)	SCCM
3	17 (4.99%)	Cisco CUCM
4	14 (4.11%)	Puppet
5	9 (2.64%)	Opscode Chef
6	8 (2.35%)	Ansible
7	7 (2.05%)	Cisco UCCX
7	7 (2.05%)	SCOrch
8	6 (1.76%)	FortiGate
8	6 (1.76%)	SCOM
9	5 (1.47%)	Nagios
10	4 (1.17%)	AirWatch
10	4 (1.17%)	BladeLogic
10	4 (1.17%)	Failover Clustering
10	4 (1.17%)	NetBackup
10	4 (1.17%)	QRadar
10	4 (1.17%)	SCSM
11	3 (0.88%)	ArcSight ESM
11	3 (0.88%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	3 (0.88%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	198 (58.06%)	Cisco
2	70 (20.53%)	VMware
3	62 (18.18%)	Microsoft
4	55 (16.13%)	Juniper
5	35 (10.26%)	Citrix
6	32 (9.38%)	CheckPoint
6	32 (9.38%)	SolarWinds
7	31 (9.09%)	F5
8	26 (7.62%)	HP
9	20 (5.87%)	NetApp
10	13 (3.81%)	Palo Alto
10	13 (3.81%)	Riverbed
11	11 (3.23%)	Fortinet
11	11 (3.23%)	Oracle
12	10 (2.93%)	Meraki
13	9 (2.64%)	Aruba
14	8 (2.35%)	Brocade
14	8 (2.35%)	IBM
14	8 (2.35%)	SonicWALL
14	8 (2.35%)	Virgin Media