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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 364 359
Rank change year-on-year +61 -5 +150
Contract jobs citing VLAN 62 35 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.56% 2.07% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 19 72
10th Percentile £250 £298 £221
25th Percentile £325 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £469 £558 £641
90th Percentile £585 £669 £718
England median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £28.76
25th Percentile - - £30.38
Median hourly rate - - £31.63
75th Percentile - - £34.44
90th Percentile - - £37.55
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £30.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.90%

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 1,360 1,691 2,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.29% 9.60% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,115 1,876
10th Percentile £263 £226 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £670
90th Percentile £718 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 48
10th Percentile £19.14 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.78 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%
75th Percentile £49.69 £41.25 £69.63
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.34
% change year-on-year -17.47% +103.45% -10.66%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +29 19 £401 -15.68% 10
Central London +13 6 £413 -22.90% 28
East London +18 4 £585 - 5
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 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) nginx
4 1 (1.61%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 20 (32.26%) Azure
3 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.68%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.45%) SaaS
7 3 (4.84%) GitHub
7 3 (4.84%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.84%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.23%) Akamai
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
9 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.61%) Google Docs
9 1 (1.61%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 39 (62.90%) DNS
2 37 (59.68%) DHCP
3 34 (54.84%) Firewall
4 24 (38.71%) BGP
4 24 (38.71%) OSPF
4 24 (38.71%) WAN
5 23 (37.10%) VPN
6 20 (32.26%) LAN
7 19 (30.65%) Network Security
8 18 (29.03%) TCP/IP
9 16 (25.81%) SD-WAN
9 16 (25.81%) Wireless
10 13 (20.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 12 (19.35%) Cisco Wireless
11 12 (19.35%) SSL
12 11 (17.74%) EIGRP
13 10 (16.13%) Cisco ISE
13 10 (16.13%) WLAN
14 9 (14.52%) DMVPN
15 5 (8.06%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.84%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Local Government
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Aviation
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) French Language
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Network Engineer
2 6 (9.68%) Administrator
2 6 (9.68%) Analyst
2 6 (9.68%) Network Administrator
2 6 (9.68%) Support Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) Consultant
3 5 (8.06%) Lead
3 5 (8.06%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Network Security Administrator
4 4 (6.45%) Security Administrator
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) SCCM Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (8.06%) iPad
3 5 (8.06%) iPhone
4 4 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.61%) Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) PKI
7 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.26%) Windows
2 12 (19.35%) Windows 10
3 5 (8.06%) Android
3 5 (8.06%) Linux
3 5 (8.06%) Mac OS
3 5 (8.06%) Windows 7
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.61%) CentOS
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.61%) Solaris
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Network Monitoring
1 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) Migration
3 8 (12.90%) Patch Management
4 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
4 6 (9.68%) Time Management
5 5 (8.06%) High Availability
5 5 (8.06%) ITIL
6 4 (6.45%) Change Management
6 4 (6.45%) Zero Trust
7 3 (4.84%) Change Control
7 3 (4.84%) Containerisation
7 3 (4.84%) Customer Service
7 3 (4.84%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 3 (4.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (4.84%) Prototyping
7 3 (4.84%) Threat Management
7 3 (4.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.68%) VBScript
3 5 (8.06%) Python
4 1 (1.61%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (27.42%) CCNP
3 12 (19.35%) CCSA
4 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) CCNA
5 5 (8.06%) JNCIA
6 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CCIE
7 2 (3.23%) CCSE
7 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.23%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.61%) CCDP
8 1 (1.61%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.61%) Degree
8 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 12 (19.35%) Firmware
3 9 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.45%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.84%) vSphere
6 1 (1.61%) Docker
6 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) SCCM
2 8 (12.90%) CA Spectrum
3 5 (8.06%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.45%) Terraform
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco UCCX
6 2 (3.23%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.23%) Icinga
6 2 (3.23%) Nagios
6 2 (3.23%) Netcool
6 2 (3.23%) Observium
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.61%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (64.52%) Cisco
2 17 (27.42%) Juniper
3 15 (24.19%) F5
3 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
4 14 (22.58%) CheckPoint
5 11 (17.74%) SolarWinds
5 11 (17.74%) VMware
6 10 (16.13%) Meraki
7 8 (12.90%) Palo Alto
8 4 (6.45%) Arista
9 2 (3.23%) EMC
9 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.23%) Google
9 2 (3.23%) NetApp
9 2 (3.23%) Qualys
10 1 (1.61%) IBM
10 1 (1.61%) Oracle
10 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.61%) Sybase
10 1 (1.61%) Veritas