VLAN Contracts in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 364 567
Rank change year-on-year -50 +203 -85
Contract jobs citing VLAN 136 294 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.63% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 4.96% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 185 138
10th Percentile £188 £220 £221
25th Percentile £253 £325 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £626 £549
90th Percentile £664 £700 £606
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 7
10th Percentile - £25.25 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.90% +102.27%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £48.00
90th Percentile - £39.30 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year +78.86% -30.90% +102.27%

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 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 14 June 2024. 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 +1 40 £500 - 16
South East -7 36 £263 -49.88% 32
North of England +11 30 £514 +14.22% 25
Yorkshire +21 17 £525 -19.23% 10
South West -10 14 £575 +31.73% 22
North West +2 11 £220 -41.33% 10
Midlands -13 11 £325 -10.34% 23
West Midlands -3 6 £200 -61.54% 18
East Midlands -5 5 £350 +7.69% 5
East of England +3 4 £400 -39.62% 6
North East +9 2 £350 +154.55% 5
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.41%) Confluence
3 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.74%) Azure
2 26 (19.12%) AWS
3 19 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.09%) GCP
5 6 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.41%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.68%) IaaS
6 5 (3.68%) OCI
6 5 (3.68%) PaaS
6 5 (3.68%) Rubrik
6 5 (3.68%) SaaS
7 3 (2.21%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (52.94%) Firewall
2 50 (36.76%) VPN
3 49 (36.03%) TCP/IP
4 44 (32.35%) DHCP
5 41 (30.15%) DNS
6 39 (28.68%) LAN
7 36 (26.47%) WAN
8 33 (24.26%) BGP
8 33 (24.26%) OSPF
9 32 (23.53%) Wireless
10 24 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (13.97%) SAN
12 17 (12.50%) MPLS
12 17 (12.50%) Network Security
13 16 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (11.03%) VoIP
15 14 (10.29%) HSRP
15 14 (10.29%) NAS
16 12 (8.82%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.47%) MySQL
2 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Power BI
3 1 (0.74%) Redis
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) JIRA
2 10 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.88%) Git
4 5 (3.68%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.74%) Darcs
5 1 (0.74%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.74%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.47%) Automotive
9 2 (1.47%) Banking
9 2 (1.47%) French Language
9 2 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.47%) Portuguese Language
9 2 (1.47%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (27.21%) Network Engineer
2 20 (14.71%) Support Engineer
3 15 (11.03%) 2nd Line Support
4 14 (10.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) Senior
6 12 (8.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) IT Support
8 8 (5.88%) Network Support
8 8 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 6 (4.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Architect
9 6 (4.41%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) 802.1X
2 7 (5.15%) LDAP
3 4 (2.94%) XMPP
4 2 (1.47%) ADSI
4 2 (1.47%) Jinja
4 2 (1.47%) JSON
4 2 (1.47%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.47%) RESTful
4 2 (1.47%) XML
4 2 (1.47%) YANG
5 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.74%) CSS
5 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.74%) HTML
5 1 (0.74%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.74%) libvirt
5 1 (0.74%) React
5 1 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) Svelte
5 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Replication
2 14 (10.29%) Clustering
3 9 (6.62%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.15%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.21%) NHS
7 3 (2.21%) PKI
8 2 (1.47%) CCTV
8 2 (1.47%) CMDB
8 2 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.74%) CBDC
9 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.74%) Handset
9 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) LIMS
9 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (37.50%) Windows
2 36 (26.47%) Linux
3 22 (16.18%) Windows Server
4 13 (9.56%) Windows 10
5 12 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (7.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (6.62%) Mac OS
8 7 (5.15%) Unix
8 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.68%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.68%) Solaris
10 4 (2.94%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.21%) VMS
12 2 (1.47%) Android
12 2 (1.47%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.74%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.65%) Change Management
2 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (9.56%) Service Delivery
4 11 (8.09%) Data Protection
4 11 (8.09%) High Availability
4 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (7.35%) Customer Service
5 10 (7.35%) Decision-Making
5 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (7.35%) Mobile Device Management
6 9 (6.62%) Agile
7 8 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 8 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (5.15%) DevOps
8 7 (5.15%) Migration
8 7 (5.15%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (5.15%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (5.15%) Quality Management
8 7 (5.15%) Storage Management
8 7 (5.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 24 (17.65%) Python
2 8 (5.88%) Bash
3 3 (2.21%) SQL
4 2 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) C
5 1 (0.74%) C#
5 1 (0.74%) C++
5 1 (0.74%) Go
5 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.74%) Perl
5 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (19.12%) CCNP
3 22 (16.18%) Security Cleared
4 21 (15.44%) Degree
5 17 (12.50%) CCNA
6 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
7 9 (6.62%) CCIE
8 7 (5.15%) AWS Certification
8 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.68%) MCSE
11 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.94%) VCAP
11 4 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.47%) CWDP
12 2 (1.47%) CWNA
12 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.68%) GDPR
1 5 (3.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.21%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) NCSC
3 2 (1.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (30.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (26.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 13 (9.56%) vSphere
5 7 (5.15%) Docker
5 7 (5.15%) Firmware
6 5 (3.68%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.74%) Ceph
8 1 (0.74%) iptables
8 1 (0.74%) KVM
8 1 (0.74%) Lustre
8 1 (0.74%) NFS
8 1 (0.74%) Samba
8 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (19.85%) Ansible
2 20 (14.71%) Puppet
2 20 (14.71%) SCCM
3 15 (11.03%) NetBackup
3 15 (11.03%) Terraform
4 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (6.62%) Failover Clustering
5 9 (6.62%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (5.15%) Autotask
7 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes
7 6 (4.41%) Nessus
7 6 (4.41%) WSUS
8 5 (3.68%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (3.68%) Netcool
8 5 (3.68%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (3.68%) Tivoli
8 5 (3.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (2.94%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.94%) Iperf
10 3 (2.21%) AppManager
Vendors
1 55 (40.44%) Cisco
2 46 (33.82%) Microsoft
3 44 (32.35%) VMware
4 17 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 15 (11.03%) Veritas
6 12 (8.82%) F5
7 11 (8.09%) Apple
7 11 (8.09%) Qualys
8 10 (7.35%) Juniper
8 10 (7.35%) SolarWinds
9 9 (6.62%) Aruba
9 9 (6.62%) Oracle
10 8 (5.88%) Fortinet
10 8 (5.88%) Google
11 7 (5.15%) Datto
11 7 (5.15%) Meraki
11 7 (5.15%) Splunk
12 6 (4.41%) Dell
12 6 (4.41%) HP
12 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow