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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	63	45	48
Rank change year-on-year	-18	+3	+24
Contract jobs citing VLAN	11	11	1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire	1.20%	2.20%	0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	9.09%	11.70%	0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	10	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£475	£600
Median % change year-on-year	+26.32%	-20.83%	-
East of England median daily rate	£600	£460	£600
% change year-on-year	+30.43%	-23.33%	+33.33%

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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	121	94	101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	13.15%	18.84%	19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	54	48	51
10^th Percentile	£392	£191	£290
25^th Percentile	£450	£394	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+25.00%
75^th Percentile	£600	£575	£575
90^th Percentile	£797	£686	£600
East of England median daily rate	£495	£500	£460
% change year-on-year	-1.00%	+8.70%	+2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted	35	33	21
10^th Percentile	£57.63	£41.25	£35.00
25^th Percentile	£65.00	£45.00	£62.50
Median hourly rate	£68.75	£65.00	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	+5.77%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£80.00	-	-
90^th Percentile	£90.76	£73.60	£67.50
East of England median hourly rate	£65.00	£45.00	£53.75
% change year-on-year	+44.44%	-16.28%	-17.31%

VLAN Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

VLAN Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

VLAN Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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 20 October 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
Stevenage	-7	10	£600	-14.29%	2
VLAN East of England

VLAN Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing VLAN also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region with a requirement for VLAN.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	100.0%	11
1	Firewall	100.0%	11
1	Infrastructure Engineering	100.0%	11
1	NetApp	100.0%	11
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	11
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	11
1	Veeam	100.0%	11
8	Ansible	54.5%	6
8	CentOS	54.5%	6
8	Linux	54.5%	6
8	NetBackup	54.5%	6
8	PowerShell	54.5%	6
8	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	54.5%	6
8	Rocky	54.5%	6
8	VMware	54.5%	6
8	VMware ESXi	54.5%	6
8	VMware Infrastructure	54.5%	6
8	Windows	54.5%	6
8	Windows Server	54.5%	6
20	Confluence	45.5%	5
20	ITSM	45.5%	5
20	JIRA	45.5%	5
20	Project Delivery	45.5%	5
20	Project Management	45.5%	5
20	Remedy	45.5%	5
20	Remedy ITSM	45.5%	5
20	SAN	45.5%	5
20	Service Delivery	45.5%	5
20	vSphere	45.5%	5
30	vCenter Server	9.1%	1

VLAN Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	100.0%	11
1	Firewall	100.0%	11
3	SAN	45.5%	5