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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 294 353
Rank change year-on-year -49 +59 +2
Contract jobs citing VLAN 73 48 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.06% 3.81% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 22
10th Percentile £308 £230 £304
25th Percentile £398 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £525
90th Percentile £593 £594 £595
England median daily rate £475 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +5.56% +9.09% -13.16%

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 1,443 1,260 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.40% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 811 1,128
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £412 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -16 5 £475 +11.76% 2
South London - 2 £463 - 2
West London -40 1 £500 +21.21% 4
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 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) CloudStack
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 12 (16.44%) AWS
3 9 (12.33%) Entra ID
3 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.59%) GCP
5 6 (8.22%) Datadog
5 6 (8.22%) IaaS
5 6 (8.22%) PaaS
5 6 (8.22%) SaaS
6 5 (6.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (6.85%) Cohesity
6 5 (6.85%) Nutanix
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Stack
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub
9 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (58.90%) Firewall
2 25 (34.25%) VPN
3 24 (32.88%) Network Security
4 20 (27.40%) BGP
5 19 (26.03%) WAN
6 18 (24.66%) DNS
6 18 (24.66%) OSPF
7 13 (17.81%) DHCP
8 10 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (13.70%) LAN
8 10 (13.70%) TACACS
9 9 (12.33%) TCP/IP
9 9 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (10.96%) Multicast
11 6 (8.22%) SAN
11 6 (8.22%) Wireless
12 5 (6.85%) SD-WAN
13 4 (5.48%) EIGRP
13 4 (5.48%) Ethernet
13 4 (5.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Banking
5 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Network Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 10 (13.70%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) IT Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Senior IT Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Testing Specialist
6 4 (5.48%) Web Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.74%) cloud-init
2 2 (2.74%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) CSS
3 1 (1.37%) HTML
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.33%) Replication
3 6 (8.22%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.48%) Clustering
4 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Life Science
6 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.74%) PKI
6 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) BYOD
7 1 (1.37%) CCTV
7 1 (1.37%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.37%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.37%) Lidar
7 1 (1.37%) Robotics
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Linux
3 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.85%) VMS
4 4 (5.48%) SUSE
5 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.37%) Debian
7 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Migration
2 20 (27.40%) Validation
3 15 (20.55%) ITSM
4 11 (15.07%) RBAC
5 10 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.96%) Zero Trust
8 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (9.59%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.59%) High Availability
8 7 (9.59%) ITIL
8 7 (9.59%) SIEM
9 6 (8.22%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (8.22%) Low Latency
9 6 (8.22%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (8.22%) Runbook
9 6 (8.22%) Security Patching
10 5 (6.85%) Change Control
10 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) Bash
3 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.74%) SQL
5 1 (1.37%) Go
5 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.37%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (12.33%) CCNA
2 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) CCNP
4 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.48%) PMI Certification
6 4 (5.48%) PMP
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CISM
7 2 (2.74%) CISSP
7 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) Project+ Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CCIE
8 1 (1.37%) CWNA
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
1 6 (8.22%) SLA
2 2 (2.74%) GMP
2 2 (2.74%) GxP
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.22%) Firmware
4 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.85%) vSphere
6 4 (5.48%) KVM
7 3 (4.11%) Ceph
8 2 (2.74%) NFS
8 2 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.37%) Docker
9 1 (1.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) FortiGate
2 9 (12.33%) Ansible
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.59%) SCCM
4 4 (5.48%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (5.48%) Terraform
4 4 (5.48%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.48%) VxRail
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) SELinux
6 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.37%) Grafana
7 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.37%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Cisco
2 17 (23.29%) Palo Alto
3 14 (19.18%) Fortinet
4 12 (16.44%) VMware
5 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.59%) Arista
6 7 (9.59%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.22%) AppDynamics
7 6 (8.22%) Dell
7 6 (8.22%) Dynatrace
7 6 (8.22%) Tenable
7 6 (8.22%) Zscaler
8 5 (6.85%) CyberArk
8 5 (6.85%) Juniper
9 4 (5.48%) ADVA
9 4 (5.48%) Aruba
9 4 (5.48%) Nokia
10 3 (4.11%) F5
10 3 (4.11%) Google
11 2 (2.74%) ForeScout