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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 292 342
Rank change year-on-year -57 +50 +48
Contract jobs citing VLAN 63 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.50% 4.20% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 31
10th Percentile £206 £243 £300
25th Percentile £396 £350 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -9.47% -
75th Percentile £538 £531 £520
90th Percentile £600 £588 £600
England median daily rate £475 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -13.46%

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 1,401 1,310 1,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.09% 10.36% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 853 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £601
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +93.18% -38.89%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -7.32% +111.30%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -18 3 £475 -13.24% 3
South London - 2 £463 - 1
East London -8 1 £675 +62.65% 1
North London - 1 £225 - 1
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) AWS
3 13 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (12.70%) GCP
5 7 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (11.11%) IaaS
5 7 (11.11%) PaaS
5 7 (11.11%) SaaS
6 6 (9.52%) Datadog
7 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.76%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub
10 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (60.32%) Firewall
2 26 (41.27%) VPN
3 24 (38.10%) Network Security
4 23 (36.51%) DNS
5 19 (30.16%) WAN
6 18 (28.57%) DHCP
7 15 (23.81%) BGP
8 14 (22.22%) OSPF
9 12 (19.05%) LAN
9 12 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (17.46%) TCP/IP
11 9 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (14.29%) TACACS
12 6 (9.52%) SAN
13 5 (7.94%) MPLS
13 5 (7.94%) Multicast
13 5 (7.94%) SD-WAN
13 5 (7.94%) Wireless
14 4 (6.35%) Ethernet
14 4 (6.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) MySQL
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.59%) Electronics
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Local Government
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Senior
3 7 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior IT Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Web Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.59%) CSS
2 1 (1.59%) HTML
2 1 (1.59%) LAMP
2 1 (1.59%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.59%) LDAP
2 1 (1.59%) libvirt
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.35%) Clustering
3 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.35%) Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.17%) PKI
6 1 (1.59%) BYOD
6 1 (1.59%) CCTV
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Linux
3 5 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.94%) VMS
4 4 (6.35%) SUSE
5 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.59%) Unix
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Migration
2 15 (23.81%) Validation
3 14 (22.22%) ITSM
4 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (12.70%) Zero Trust
7 7 (11.11%) High Availability
8 6 (9.52%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.52%) ITIL
8 6 (9.52%) Network Design
8 6 (9.52%) RBAC
8 6 (9.52%) Security Patching
9 5 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (7.94%) Runbook
9 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.35%) Change Control
10 4 (6.35%) Low Latency
10 4 (6.35%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (6.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) Python
2 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (4.76%) VBScript
5 2 (3.17%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Go
6 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (17.46%) CCNP
3 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
4 9 (14.29%) CCNA
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.76%) CCIE
6 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.17%) PMP
7 2 (3.17%) Project+ Certification
8 1 (1.59%) CISSP
8 1 (1.59%) CWNA
8 1 (1.59%) GIAC
8 1 (1.59%) GSEC
8 1 (1.59%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.59%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) Firmware
3 6 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.94%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (7.94%) vSphere
5 2 (3.17%) Ceph
5 2 (3.17%) KVM
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.59%) iptables
6 1 (1.59%) Lustre
6 1 (1.59%) NFS
6 1 (1.59%) Samba
6 1 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) SCCM
2 8 (12.70%) FortiGate
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (6.35%) vCenter Server
4 4 (6.35%) VxRail
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.76%) Terraform
6 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.59%) Grafana
7 1 (1.59%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.59%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.59%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) Cisco
2 16 (25.40%) Palo Alto
3 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
4 11 (17.46%) Fortinet
4 11 (17.46%) VMware
5 6 (9.52%) AppDynamics
5 6 (9.52%) CheckPoint
5 6 (9.52%) Dynatrace
5 6 (9.52%) Juniper
5 6 (9.52%) Tenable
6 5 (7.94%) Arista
6 5 (7.94%) Dell
6 5 (7.94%) Zscaler
7 4 (6.35%) ADVA
7 4 (6.35%) Aruba
7 4 (6.35%) Nokia
8 3 (4.76%) Meraki
9 2 (3.17%) Blue Coat
9 2 (3.17%) F5
9 2 (3.17%) ForeScout