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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 309 345
Rank change year-on-year -47 +36 +8
Contract jobs citing VLAN 88 62 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.46% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.50% 4.45% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 41 18
10th Percentile £366 £256 £287
25th Percentile £403 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £401 £510
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -21.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £534 £475 £591
90th Percentile £600 £625 £650
England median daily rate £475 £436 £475
% change year-on-year +8.88% -8.16% -2.56%

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 1,600 1,394 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.28% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 910 1,015
10th Percentile £306 £287 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 30
10th Percentile £19.48 £19.46 £16.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.27 £30.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +31.00% -37.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £62.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £44.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -37.21% -18.91% +5.75%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -2 15 £425 +3.03% 6
South London - 2 £463 - 5
West London -38 1 £500 +25.00% 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 2 (2.27%) Apache
1 2 (2.27%) CloudStack
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.91%) Azure
2 12 (13.64%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (10.23%) GCP
4 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.95%) Datadog
5 7 (7.95%) GitHub
5 7 (7.95%) IaaS
5 7 (7.95%) PaaS
5 7 (7.95%) SaaS
6 5 (5.68%) Cohesity
6 5 (5.68%) Nutanix
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Stack
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.14%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 63 (71.59%) Firewall
2 39 (44.32%) VPN
3 32 (36.36%) BGP
4 28 (31.82%) Network Security
5 27 (30.68%) DNS
6 26 (29.55%) OSPF
7 20 (22.73%) DHCP
8 16 (18.18%) TCP/IP
8 16 (18.18%) WAN
9 14 (15.91%) Multicast
10 13 (14.77%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (14.77%) Wireless
11 11 (12.50%) TACACS
11 11 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (7.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 7 (7.95%) IPsec
12 7 (7.95%) LAN
12 7 (7.95%) SAN
13 6 (6.82%) Cisco Wireless
13 6 (6.82%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Chocolatey
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 22 (25.00%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Retail
6 4 (4.55%) Automotive
7 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (53.41%) Network Engineer
2 23 (26.14%) Senior
3 17 (19.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Security Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Implementation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Testing Specialist
9 4 (4.55%) Web Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.27%) cloud-init
2 2 (2.27%) eBPF
2 2 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (1.14%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) CSS
3 1 (1.14%) HTML
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.23%) Replication
3 8 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (7.95%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.68%) Digital Signage
5 5 (5.68%) Robotics
6 4 (4.55%) Clustering
6 4 (4.55%) PKI
6 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.27%) Life Science
8 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.14%) CCTV
9 1 (1.14%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Windows
2 12 (13.64%) Linux
3 7 (7.95%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.55%) SUSE
4 4 (4.55%) VMS
5 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.14%) Debian
6 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) Migration
2 25 (28.41%) Validation
3 19 (21.59%) ITSM
4 13 (14.77%) Project Delivery
5 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.50%) Zero Trust
7 10 (11.36%) Runbook
8 9 (10.23%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.09%) ITIL
10 7 (7.95%) Analytical Thinking
10 7 (7.95%) DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) High Availability
10 7 (7.95%) Low Latency
10 7 (7.95%) Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (7.95%) RBAC
10 7 (7.95%) Security Patching
11 6 (6.82%) Change Management
11 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (6.82%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.95%) Python
2 12 (13.64%) Bash
3 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.14%) Java
4 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.14%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (15.91%) CCNP
3 9 (10.23%) CCNA
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.55%) JNCIP
5 4 (4.55%) JNCIS
5 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.41%) CISM
6 3 (3.41%) CISSP
6 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.41%) Degree
7 2 (2.27%) CCIE
7 2 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.27%) PMP
7 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.14%) CCSA
8 1 (1.14%) CCSE
8 1 (1.14%) CWNA
8 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) SLA
2 6 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) GMP
3 2 (2.27%) GxP
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.82%) Firmware
3 6 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.68%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.68%) vSphere
5 3 (3.41%) KVM
6 2 (2.27%) Ceph
6 2 (2.27%) NFS
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.14%) Docker
7 1 (1.14%) QEMU
7 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Ansible
2 16 (18.18%) FortiGate
3 14 (15.91%) Terraform
4 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (7.95%) SCCM
6 5 (5.68%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (4.55%) systemd
7 4 (4.55%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.55%) VxRail
8 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
8 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.27%) Grafana
9 2 (2.27%) SELinux
9 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.14%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (1.14%) PaperCut
10 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (59.09%) Cisco
2 25 (28.41%) Palo Alto
3 24 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
5 14 (15.91%) VMware
6 13 (14.77%) F5
6 13 (14.77%) Juniper
7 12 (13.64%) Zscaler
8 9 (10.23%) Arista
8 9 (10.23%) CheckPoint
9 8 (9.09%) Dynatrace
10 7 (7.95%) AppDynamics
10 7 (7.95%) Tenable
11 6 (6.82%) Dell
12 5 (5.68%) CyberArk
13 4 (4.55%) MikroTik
14 3 (3.41%) Aruba
14 3 (3.41%) Blue Coat
14 3 (3.41%) Google
15 2 (2.27%) Splunk