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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 302 339
Rank change year-on-year -37 +37 +44
Contract jobs citing VLAN 65 52 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.56% 3.92% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 29
10th Percentile £208 £243 £330
25th Percentile £400 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £430 £486
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -11.52% -2.80%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £525
90th Percentile £575 £591 £629
England median daily rate £475 £435 £425
% change year-on-year +9.20% +2.35% -10.05%

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 1,425 1,327 1,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.05% 10.57% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 851 1,149
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -10.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £739
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 60
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.31 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +98.86% -52.17%
75th Percentile £28.92 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.10% -8.75% +112.54%

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 30 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 30 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 -13 4 £475 -13.24% 3
South London - 2 £463 -
West London -36 1 £500 +21.21% 3
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 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (10.77%) GCP
5 6 (9.23%) Datadog
5 6 (9.23%) IaaS
5 6 (9.23%) PaaS
5 6 (9.23%) SaaS
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Stack
6 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.08%) GitHub
8 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (63.08%) Firewall
2 27 (41.54%) VPN
3 23 (35.38%) Network Security
4 20 (30.77%) DNS
5 17 (26.15%) WAN
6 15 (23.08%) BGP
6 15 (23.08%) DHCP
6 15 (23.08%) OSPF
7 11 (16.92%) Cisco ISE
7 11 (16.92%) TACACS
8 10 (15.38%) LAN
8 10 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (13.85%) TCP/IP
10 6 (9.23%) SAN
10 6 (9.23%) Wireless
11 5 (7.69%) MPLS
11 5 (7.69%) Multicast
11 5 (7.69%) SD-WAN
12 4 (6.15%) Ethernet
12 4 (6.15%) VSAN
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 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Electronics
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Local Government
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) 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 2 (3.08%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Network Designer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) 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 8 (12.31%) 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%) Life Science
5 2 (3.08%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) CCTV
6 1 (1.54%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Lidar
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Robotics
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.69%) VMS
4 4 (6.15%) SUSE
5 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.54%) Debian
6 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Migration
2 20 (30.77%) Validation
3 15 (23.08%) ITSM
4 9 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (13.85%) Zero Trust
5 8 (12.31%) High Availability
6 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
6 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.23%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (9.23%) ITIL
7 6 (9.23%) RBAC
7 6 (9.23%) Runbook
7 6 (9.23%) Security Patching
8 5 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (6.15%) Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.15%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) Bash
2 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.08%) SQL
3 2 (3.08%) VBScript
4 1 (1.54%) Go
4 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.54%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (15.38%) CCNP
3 9 (13.85%) CCNA
3 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Certification
4 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 4 (6.15%) PMP
6 3 (4.62%) CCIE
6 3 (4.62%) CISSP
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.08%) CISM
7 2 (3.08%) CWNA
7 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.08%) Project+ Certification
8 1 (1.54%) GIAC
8 1 (1.54%) GSEC
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) SLA
2 2 (3.08%) GMP
2 2 (3.08%) GxP
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (9.23%) Firmware
3 6 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (7.69%) vSphere
5 3 (4.62%) KVM
6 2 (3.08%) Ceph
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.54%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) iptables
7 1 (1.54%) Lustre
7 1 (1.54%) NFS
7 1 (1.54%) QEMU
7 1 (1.54%) Samba
7 1 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) FortiGate
2 8 (12.31%) Ansible
2 8 (12.31%) SCCM
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Dell DRAC
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 28 (43.08%) Cisco
2 17 (26.15%) Palo Alto
3 14 (21.54%) Fortinet
4 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
5 11 (16.92%) VMware
6 8 (12.31%) CheckPoint
7 6 (9.23%) AppDynamics
7 6 (9.23%) Dell
7 6 (9.23%) Dynatrace
7 6 (9.23%) Tenable
7 6 (9.23%) Zscaler
8 5 (7.69%) Aruba
8 5 (7.69%) Juniper
9 4 (6.15%) ADVA
9 4 (6.15%) Arista
9 4 (6.15%) Nokia
10 3 (4.62%) Meraki
11 2 (3.08%) Blue Coat
11 2 (3.08%) F5
11 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL