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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 305 338
Rank change year-on-year -33 +33 +48
Contract jobs citing VLAN 65 48 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.68% 3.72% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 37 30
10th Percentile £209 £283 £291
25th Percentile £363 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.32%
75th Percentile £538 £571 £524
90th Percentile £600 £605 £614
England median daily rate £475 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +9.83% +8.13% -12.27%

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 1,389 1,290 1,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.24% 10.21% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 838 1,171
10th Percentile £286 £263 £206
25th Percentile £410 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -10.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 64
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £27.47 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% +86.36% -34.81%
75th Percentile £40.75 £52.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
% change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 4 £475 -13.32% 8
South London - 2 £463 - 2
East London -7 1 £675 +62.65% 2
West London -25 1 £275 -31.25% 4
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 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 34 (52.31%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (21.54%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (10.77%) IaaS
5 7 (10.77%) PaaS
5 7 (10.77%) SaaS
6 6 (9.23%) Datadog
7 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.62%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.54%) GitHub
10 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (60.00%) Firewall
2 27 (41.54%) VPN
3 26 (40.00%) Network Security
4 24 (36.92%) DNS
5 21 (32.31%) WAN
6 18 (27.69%) DHCP
7 15 (23.08%) LAN
8 14 (21.54%) BGP
8 14 (21.54%) TCP/IP
8 14 (21.54%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (20.00%) OSPF
10 8 (12.31%) Cisco ISE
10 8 (12.31%) TACACS
11 6 (9.23%) SAN
11 6 (9.23%) Wireless
12 5 (7.69%) MPLS
12 5 (7.69%) SD-WAN
13 4 (6.15%) Ethernet
13 4 (6.15%) VSAN
14 3 (4.62%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Electronics
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (44.62%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 6 (9.23%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior IT Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Web Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Lead
7 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Access Control Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.54%) CSS
2 1 (1.54%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) LAMP
2 1 (1.54%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
2 1 (1.54%) libvirt
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.15%) Clustering
3 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.15%) Replication
4 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) BYOD
6 1 (1.54%) CCTV
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.31%) Windows
2 6 (9.23%) Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.15%) SUSE
4 4 (6.15%) VMS
5 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.54%) Unix
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) Migration
2 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.54%) Validation
3 13 (20.00%) ITSM
4 9 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (12.31%) Network Design
5 8 (12.31%) Zero Trust
6 7 (10.77%) High Availability
7 6 (9.23%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (9.23%) ITIL
7 6 (9.23%) RBAC
7 6 (9.23%) Security Patching
8 5 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.69%) Data Protection
8 5 (7.69%) Runbook
8 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (6.15%) Change Control
9 4 (6.15%) Network Architecture
9 4 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.77%) Bash
4 3 (4.62%) VBScript
5 2 (3.08%) SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Go
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (18.46%) CCNP
2 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) CCNA
4 8 (12.31%) Azure Certification
5 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
6 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.62%) CCIE
7 3 (4.62%) JNCIP
7 3 (4.62%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.08%) PMP
8 2 (3.08%) Project+ Certification
9 1 (1.54%) CISSP
9 1 (1.54%) GIAC
9 1 (1.54%) MCSA
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.77%) Firmware
2 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.69%) vSphere
4 2 (3.08%) Ceph
4 2 (3.08%) KVM
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.54%) iptables
5 1 (1.54%) Lustre
5 1 (1.54%) NFS
5 1 (1.54%) Samba
5 1 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (15.38%) SCCM
2 8 (12.31%) FortiGate
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (9.23%) Ansible
4 4 (6.15%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (6.15%) vCenter Server
4 4 (6.15%) VxRail
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.62%) Terraform
6 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.54%) Grafana
7 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.54%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.54%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (36.92%) Cisco
2 16 (24.62%) Palo Alto
3 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
4 12 (18.46%) VMware
5 9 (13.85%) Fortinet
5 9 (13.85%) Juniper
6 6 (9.23%) AppDynamics
6 6 (9.23%) Dynatrace
6 6 (9.23%) Tenable
7 5 (7.69%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.69%) Dell
8 4 (6.15%) ADVA
8 4 (6.15%) Arista
8 4 (6.15%) Aruba
8 4 (6.15%) Nokia
8 4 (6.15%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.62%) Meraki
10 2 (3.08%) F5
10 2 (3.08%) Google
10 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL