VLAN Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.98% - 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% - 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £495 £215 £575
% change year-on-year +130.23% -62.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - -
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £12.56 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 32 30 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.80% 12.05% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 39
10th Percentile £205 £225 £220
25th Percentile £209 £380 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +1.40% +13.16%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £625
90th Percentile £638 £670 £660
South West median daily rate £495 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.47% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.74%
75th Percentile £12.69 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £41.40 £65.00
% change year-on-year +57.02% -36.32% +8.33%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

VLAN job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cheltenham - 4 £550 - 5
VLAN
South West

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware