VLAN Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring VLAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 58 72
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -
Contract jobs citing VLAN 11 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.42% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.96% 1.02% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £225 - £455
25th Percentile £372 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £700 - £700
90th Percentile - - £745
East of England median daily rate £445 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -25.83% +9.09% +69.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 92 98 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 20.22% 15.86% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 87
10th Percentile £328 £303 £258
25th Percentile £463 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £696 - £730
East of England median daily rate £525 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 40
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.38%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £44.28 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.02% -31.88% +30.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Hertfordshire

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in Hertfordshire

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
Stevenage +11 6 £700 +16.67% 2
Watford - 2 £475 - 4
Broxbourne - 1 - -
VLAN
East of England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) VPN
3 6 (54.55%) BGP
3 6 (54.55%) OSPF
4 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (27.27%) Network Security
4 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 1 (9.09%) NAS
5 1 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) CCTV Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CCTV
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) Biotechnology
4 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CCNP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Huawei
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) Citrix
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) Veeam