VLAN Contracts in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 342 382
Rank change year-on-year +41 +40 +131
Contract jobs citing VLAN 52 49 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.27% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.95% 2.85% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 63
10th Percentile £243 £330 £221
25th Percentile £350 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% -2.80% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £638
90th Percentile £591 £629 £685
England median daily rate £443 £431 £469
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £28.23
25th Percentile - - £30.38
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £35.13
90th Percentile - - £37.90
England median hourly rate - - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.78%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in London.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in London

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 1 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
West London - 14 £413 - 4
Central London +10 8 £548 +21.67% 7
East London +20 6 £415 -20.19%
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) AWS
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (11.54%) OneDrive
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) Datadog
6 3 (5.77%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Serverless
8 1 (1.92%) Akamai
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (51.92%) Firewall
2 26 (50.00%) DNS
3 24 (46.15%) DHCP
4 20 (38.46%) VPN
5 19 (36.54%) BGP
5 19 (36.54%) WAN
6 18 (34.62%) Network Security
6 18 (34.62%) OSPF
7 15 (28.85%) LAN
8 14 (26.92%) Wireless
9 12 (23.08%) TCP/IP
10 9 (17.31%) SD-WAN
10 9 (17.31%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (13.46%) EIGRP
11 7 (13.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (13.46%) SSL
12 6 (11.54%) VoIP
12 6 (11.54%) WLAN
13 5 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (9.62%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) InfluxDB
1 2 (3.85%) Looker
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Aviation
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Consultant
3 5 (9.62%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Lead
4 4 (7.69%) Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Network Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Data Network Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Lead Network Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Desktop Support
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.92%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) Linux
3 6 (11.54%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.85%) Unix
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Solaris
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) Migration
1 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (13.46%) High Availability
2 7 (13.46%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (11.54%) Agile
3 6 (11.54%) Change Management
3 6 (11.54%) Cloud Security
3 6 (11.54%) ITIL
4 5 (9.62%) Customer Service
4 5 (9.62%) Data Protection
4 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (7.69%) Observability
5 4 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 3 (5.77%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (5.77%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (5.77%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 3 (5.77%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (5.77%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (5.77%) Task Automation
6 3 (5.77%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.54%) Python
3 3 (5.77%) VBScript
4 2 (3.85%) C
4 2 (3.85%) C++
4 2 (3.85%) Go
4 2 (3.85%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (21.15%) CCNP
3 8 (15.38%) CCSA
4 6 (11.54%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.77%) JNCIA
5 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.85%) CCIE
6 2 (3.85%) CCSE
6 2 (3.85%) JNCIS
6 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.92%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.92%) Degree
7 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.54%) Firmware
4 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.69%) vSphere
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.92%) Docker
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) SCCM
2 4 (7.69%) CA Spectrum
2 4 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.85%) AppManager
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (3.85%) Grafana
4 2 (3.85%) Netcool
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.92%) Icinga
5 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Nagios
5 1 (1.92%) Observium
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) Cisco
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.08%) VMware
3 10 (19.23%) CheckPoint
4 9 (17.31%) Juniper
4 9 (17.31%) Meraki
5 8 (15.38%) SolarWinds
6 7 (13.46%) Arista
6 7 (13.46%) F5
6 7 (13.46%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.77%) Splunk
8 2 (3.85%) Dell
8 2 (3.85%) EMC
8 2 (3.85%) Forcepoint
8 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.85%) Google
8 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
8 2 (3.85%) Ivanti
8 2 (3.85%) Veeam
9 1 (1.92%) Serena