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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 316 337
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 +87
Contract jobs citing VLAN 54 36 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.17% 2.68% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 20 34
10th Percentile £200 £243 £300
25th Percentile £356 £359 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -7.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £544
90th Percentile £587 £601 £685
England median daily rate £475 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +10.35% +7.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.25 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +135.48%

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 1,295 1,344 1,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.56% 9.95% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 803 1,233
10th Percentile £263 £255 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 70
10th Percentile £20.24 £24.13 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £27.66 £41.50 £56.06
90th Percentile £92.13 £53.50 £72.62
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.89% -26.32% +137.50%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -14 3 £538 -1.92% 8
East London 0 1 £675 +175.51% 3
South London - 1 £425 - 4
West London - 1 £275 - 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 (5.56%) OpenStack
1 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (5.56%) IaaS
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.56%) PaaS
5 3 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Datadog
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (48.15%) Firewall
2 19 (35.19%) WAN
3 18 (33.33%) Network Security
4 17 (31.48%) DNS
5 16 (29.63%) DHCP
5 16 (29.63%) LAN
6 15 (27.78%) VPN
7 13 (24.07%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (22.22%) BGP
9 9 (16.67%) MPLS
9 9 (16.67%) OSPF
9 9 (16.67%) TCP/IP
10 7 (12.96%) SD-WAN
11 5 (9.26%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (9.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (9.26%) TACACS
12 4 (7.41%) IPsec
12 4 (7.41%) Wireless
13 3 (5.56%) SAN
13 3 (5.56%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Burp Suite
1 2 (3.70%) Chocolatey
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) Metasploit
1 2 (3.70%) sqlmap
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Local Government
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Lead
3 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Architect
4 3 (5.56%) Consultant
4 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (3.70%) Access Control Consultant
5 2 (3.70%) Citrix Support Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Network Consultant
5 2 (3.70%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Tester
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.85%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.85%) JSON
2 1 (1.85%) LAMP
2 1 (1.85%) LangChain
2 1 (1.85%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.85%) LDAP
2 1 (1.85%) libvirt
2 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.70%) PKI
3 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.85%) CCTV
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.85%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Migration
2 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (18.52%) Network Design
3 10 (18.52%) Validation
4 6 (11.11%) ITSM
5 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
5 5 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (9.26%) ITIL
5 5 (9.26%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.41%) Application Security
6 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
6 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.41%) High Availability
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.41%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (7.41%) RBAC
6 4 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) Bash
3 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.56%) VBScript
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
5 2 (3.70%) SQL
6 1 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) CCNP
4 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.96%) CCNA
6 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.56%) JNCIP
8 3 (5.56%) JNCIS
9 2 (3.70%) CCDP
9 2 (3.70%) CCIE
9 2 (3.70%) Degree
9 2 (3.70%) GPEN
9 2 (3.70%) GXPN
9 2 (3.70%) OSCE
9 2 (3.70%) OSCP
9 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
9 2 (3.70%) PMP
9 2 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Firmware
2 3 (5.56%) KVM
3 2 (3.70%) Ceph
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) iptables
4 1 (1.85%) Lustre
4 1 (1.85%) NFS
4 1 (1.85%) Samba
4 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.85%) Squid
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) SCCM
2 5 (9.26%) FortiGate
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Terraform
5 2 (3.70%) Nessus
5 2 (3.70%) Nmap
5 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.85%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.85%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.85%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Cisco
2 13 (24.07%) Palo Alto
3 9 (16.67%) Juniper
4 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 6 (11.11%) Meraki
6 4 (7.41%) ADVA
6 4 (7.41%) Aruba
6 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
6 4 (7.41%) Nokia
6 4 (7.41%) VMware
7 3 (5.56%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.56%) Citrix
7 3 (5.56%) Dell
7 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
8 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.70%) F5
8 2 (3.70%) Okta
8 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.70%) Tenable