VLAN Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 312 352
Rank change year-on-year -46 +40 +6
Contract jobs citing VLAN 92 56 38
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.61% 4.15% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 34 17
10th Percentile £359 £269 £350
25th Percentile £397 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -23.03% +4.00%
75th Percentile £530 £473 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £495 £441 £425
% change year-on-year +12.18% +3.82% -10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,640 1,350 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.13% 10.14% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 861 984
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £713 £713
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 35 23
10th Percentile £19.40 £18.63 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +0.60% -22.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £61.85 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £41.45 £57.35
% change year-on-year -32.45% -27.72% +1.52%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in London

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in London

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London -5 21 £425 +6.25% 10
West London -34 1 £500 +24.92% 2
North London - 1 £225 -
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) Entra ID
3 10 (10.87%) AWS
4 9 (9.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.70%) GitHub
6 7 (7.61%) IaaS
7 6 (6.52%) GCP
7 6 (6.52%) PaaS
7 6 (6.52%) SaaS
8 5 (5.43%) Cohesity
8 5 (5.43%) Datadog
8 5 (5.43%) Nutanix
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Stack
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
11 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (69.57%) Firewall
2 34 (36.96%) BGP
2 34 (36.96%) VPN
3 25 (27.17%) Network Security
4 24 (26.09%) OSPF
5 23 (25.00%) DNS
6 21 (22.83%) Multicast
6 21 (22.83%) WAN
7 18 (19.57%) DHCP
8 17 (18.48%) Wireless
9 14 (15.22%) TCP/IP
10 13 (14.13%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (10.87%) TACACS
13 8 (8.70%) IPsec
14 7 (7.61%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (7.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (7.61%) Spanning Tree
15 6 (6.52%) SAN
15 6 (6.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) Chocolatey
3 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 31 (33.70%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Banking
5 7 (7.61%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.52%) Retail
7 5 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Automotive
9 2 (2.17%) French Language
9 2 (2.17%) Legal
9 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (55.43%) Network Engineer
2 28 (30.43%) Senior
3 22 (23.91%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Implementation Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Testing Specialist
10 3 (3.26%) Designer
10 3 (3.26%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Terraform
2 5 (5.43%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.17%) .NET
3 2 (2.17%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.17%) eBPF
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.78%) Replication
4 8 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (7.61%) Digital Signage
6 5 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (5.43%) Robotics
7 4 (4.35%) Clustering
7 4 (4.35%) PKI
7 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.17%) Life Science
9 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.83%) Windows
2 13 (14.13%) Linux
3 7 (7.61%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.35%) SUSE
5 4 (4.35%) VMS
6 1 (1.09%) Debian
6 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.74%) Migration
2 30 (32.61%) Validation
3 18 (19.57%) ITSM
4 14 (15.22%) Project Delivery
5 11 (11.96%) Runbook
6 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.87%) Low Latency
6 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.78%) DevOps
7 9 (9.78%) High Availability
7 9 (9.78%) ITIL
7 9 (9.78%) Zero Trust
8 8 (8.70%) Load Balancing
9 7 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.61%) Network Design
9 7 (7.61%) Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (7.61%) Use Case
10 6 (6.52%) Change Control
10 6 (6.52%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) Python
2 11 (11.96%) Bash
3 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (1.09%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 17 (18.48%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (15.22%) CCNP
3 9 (9.78%) Azure Certification
3 9 (9.78%) CCNA
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.35%) JNCIP
5 4 (4.35%) JNCIS
6 3 (3.26%) CISM
6 3 (3.26%) CISSP
6 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.17%) PMP
8 1 (1.09%) CCIE
8 1 (1.09%) CCSA
8 1 (1.09%) CCSE
8 1 (1.09%) CWNA
8 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) QA
1 6 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (2.17%) GMP
2 2 (2.17%) GxP
2 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.43%) Firmware
5 5 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.35%) vSphere
7 3 (3.26%) KVM
8 2 (2.17%) Ceph
8 2 (2.17%) NFS
9 1 (1.09%) Docker
9 1 (1.09%) QEMU
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (19.57%) Ansible
2 15 (16.30%) FortiGate
3 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (7.61%) Cisco Prime
5 6 (6.52%) SCCM
6 4 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (4.35%) systemd
6 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.35%) VxRail
7 3 (3.26%) Grafana
7 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.17%) SELinux
8 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (65.22%) Cisco
2 26 (28.26%) Fortinet
3 23 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
5 15 (16.30%) F5
6 14 (15.22%) Arista
7 13 (14.13%) VMware
8 11 (11.96%) Juniper
9 9 (9.78%) CheckPoint
9 9 (9.78%) Zscaler
10 8 (8.70%) Aruba
11 7 (7.61%) Dynatrace
12 6 (6.52%) Dell
13 5 (5.43%) AppDynamics
13 5 (5.43%) CyberArk
13 5 (5.43%) Tenable
14 4 (4.35%) MikroTik
15 3 (3.26%) Google
15 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
15 3 (3.26%) Splunk