VLAN Contracts in Kent

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing VLAN 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 0.88% 1.51% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.13% 11.11% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile - £203 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £205 £418
Median % change year-on-year +82.93% -50.90% +119.74%
75th Percentile - £208 £432
90th Percentile - - £435
South East median daily rate £508 £230 £500
% change year-on-year +120.65% -54.00% +85.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 32 27 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 28.07% 13.57% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 19
10th Percentile £160 £203 £310
25th Percentile £193 £278 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £393 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% -7.65% +36.00%
75th Percentile £438 £471 £749
90th Percentile £607 £538 £788
South East median daily rate £475 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -3.55% +1.03% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -34.97% +314.50%
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £55.50
% change year-on-year -4.32% +3.33% +158.14%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Kent

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in Kent.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in Kent

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Kent region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Dover - 1 £375 -
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware