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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 304 356
Rank change year-on-year -55 +52 0
Contract jobs citing VLAN 89 62 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.46% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.49% 4.54% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 41 18
10th Percentile £375 £256 £350
25th Percentile £400 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £401 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -21.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £530 £500 £591
90th Percentile £600 £625 £650
England median daily rate £495 £447 £463
% change year-on-year +10.74% -3.35% -7.50%

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 1,622 1,366 1,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.08% 10.19% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 888 1,017
10th Percentile £305 £287 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £738 £713 £701
England median daily rate £500 £492 £504
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.38% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 32
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.32 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.38
Median hourly rate £28.27 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +12.41% +5.67% -29.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £62.05 £64.50
England median hourly rate £27.75 £43.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -36.21% -20.73% -1.84%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +2 18 £425 +6.25% 9
West London -41 1 £500 +25.00% 2
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 (2.25%) Apache
1 2 (2.25%) CloudStack
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.08%) Azure
2 10 (11.24%) AWS
2 10 (11.24%) Entra ID
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (10.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (8.99%) IaaS
4 8 (8.99%) PaaS
4 8 (8.99%) SaaS
5 7 (7.87%) Datadog
5 7 (7.87%) GCP
5 7 (7.87%) GitHub
6 5 (5.62%) Cohesity
6 5 (5.62%) Nutanix
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Stack
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (68.54%) Firewall
2 36 (40.45%) VPN
3 31 (34.83%) BGP
4 25 (28.09%) DNS
5 24 (26.97%) Network Security
5 24 (26.97%) OSPF
6 19 (21.35%) DHCP
6 19 (21.35%) Multicast
7 18 (20.22%) WAN
8 14 (15.73%) TCP/IP
8 14 (15.73%) Wireless
9 13 (14.61%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (13.48%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (12.36%) TACACS
12 8 (8.99%) SAN
13 7 (7.87%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (7.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 7 (7.87%) IPsec
14 6 (6.74%) Spanning Tree
14 6 (6.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Git
2 7 (7.87%) Chocolatey
3 2 (2.25%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
General
1 29 (32.58%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Retail
5 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.49%) Automotive
7 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) French Language
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (52.81%) Network Engineer
2 27 (30.34%) Senior
3 20 (22.47%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Implementation Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Testing Specialist
10 4 (4.49%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) Terraform
2 6 (6.74%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.25%) .NET
3 2 (2.25%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.25%) eBPF
4 1 (1.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.60%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.11%) Replication
3 8 (8.99%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (6.74%) Digital Signage
6 5 (5.62%) Robotics
7 4 (4.49%) Clustering
7 4 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.49%) PKI
7 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.37%) Driving Licence
9 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.25%) Life Science
9 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.12%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.60%) Windows
2 13 (14.61%) Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.49%) SUSE
4 4 (4.49%) VMS
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.12%) Debian
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) Migration
2 29 (32.58%) Validation
3 21 (23.60%) ITSM
4 13 (14.61%) Project Delivery
5 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.36%) Runbook
7 9 (10.11%) DevOps
7 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.11%) ITIL
7 9 (10.11%) Low Latency
7 9 (10.11%) Zero Trust
8 7 (7.87%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (7.87%) High Availability
8 7 (7.87%) Load Balancing
8 7 (7.87%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (7.87%) RBAC
8 7 (7.87%) Security Patching
9 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) Python
2 12 (13.48%) Bash
3 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.25%) Java
5 1 (1.12%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (15.73%) CCNP
3 9 (10.11%) Azure Certification
3 9 (10.11%) CCNA
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) JNCIP
4 4 (4.49%) JNCIS
5 3 (3.37%) CISM
5 3 (3.37%) CISSP
5 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.25%) PMP
7 1 (1.12%) CCIE
7 1 (1.12%) CCSA
7 1 (1.12%) CCSE
7 1 (1.12%) CWNA
7 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) SLA
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) GMP
3 2 (2.25%) GxP
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (11.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.62%) Firmware
5 5 (5.62%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.49%) vSphere
7 3 (3.37%) KVM
8 2 (2.25%) Ceph
8 2 (2.25%) NFS
8 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.12%) Docker
9 1 (1.12%) QEMU
9 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) Ansible
2 15 (16.85%) FortiGate
3 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (8.99%) SCCM
5 6 (6.74%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (4.49%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (4.49%) systemd
6 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.49%) VxRail
7 3 (3.37%) Grafana
7 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (2.25%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.25%) SELinux
8 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (61.80%) Cisco
2 24 (26.97%) Fortinet
3 23 (25.84%) Palo Alto
4 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
5 14 (15.73%) F5
5 14 (15.73%) VMware
6 13 (14.61%) Arista
7 11 (12.36%) Juniper
8 9 (10.11%) CheckPoint
8 9 (10.11%) Dynatrace
8 9 (10.11%) Zscaler
9 7 (7.87%) AppDynamics
9 7 (7.87%) Aruba
9 7 (7.87%) Tenable
10 6 (6.74%) Dell
11 5 (5.62%) CyberArk
12 4 (4.49%) MikroTik
13 3 (3.37%) Google
13 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
13 3 (3.37%) Splunk