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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 41 71
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% 1.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.08% 3.64% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £600
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -50.00% +20.00%
East of England median daily rate £540 £225 £400
% change year-on-year +140.00% -43.75% -31.91%

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 96 110 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.75% 30.81% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 64 54
10th Percentile £402 £404 £245
25th Percentile £425 £461 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £575
90th Percentile £618 £613 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +4.21% +18.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 43
10th Percentile £51.89 £49.25 -
25th Percentile £57.63 £59.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.01 -
90th Percentile - £84.70 -
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +30.53% -26.92%

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 job vacancy trend 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
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 29 June 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 -10 1 £600 +166.67% 4
VLAN
East of England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Rocky
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware