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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 45 57
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing VLAN 7 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.83% 2.23% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.54% 10.75% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +33.33%
East of England median daily rate £600 £423 £513
% change year-on-year +42.01% -17.56% +2.50%

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 107 93 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.65% 20.71% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 38
10th Percentile £391 £338 £301
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £620 £694 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 29
10th Percentile £51.89 £41.25 -
25th Percentile £57.63 £45.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £91.75 £85.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £63.75 £61.50 £48.56
% change year-on-year +3.66% +26.65% -25.29%

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 8 September 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 +1 6 £600 -14.29% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) Backup Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) NetApp Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (42.86%) Automation Specialist
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Backup Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) CentOS
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Rocky
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) NetApp
1 7 (100.00%) Veeam
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy