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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 299 329
Rank change year-on-year -56 +30 +64
Contract jobs citing VLAN 57 47 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.16% 3.65% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 31
10th Percentile £201 £276 £213
25th Percentile £356 £359 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £443 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -8.95% +2.32%
75th Percentile £547 £546 £523
90th Percentile £598 £593 £600
England median daily rate £474 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +9.60% +8.13% -11.11%

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 1,369 1,288 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.17% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 824 1,163
10th Percentile £278 £263 £205
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £734 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 64
10th Percentile £20.09 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £27.47 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £38.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.84% +75.00% -34.81%
75th Percentile £41.75 £49.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% +7.69% +71.05%

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 25 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 25 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 -7 3 £475 -13.24% 8
South London - 2 £463 - 2
East London -9 1 £675 +62.65% 2
West London -28 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.05%) AWS
4 7 (12.28%) IaaS
4 7 (12.28%) PaaS
4 7 (12.28%) SaaS
5 6 (10.53%) Datadog
5 6 (10.53%) GCP
6 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (5.26%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (56.14%) Firewall
2 23 (40.35%) Network Security
3 22 (38.60%) DNS
4 21 (36.84%) VPN
5 19 (33.33%) WAN
6 18 (31.58%) DHCP
7 15 (26.32%) LAN
8 14 (24.56%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (21.05%) BGP
9 12 (21.05%) TCP/IP
10 11 (19.30%) OSPF
11 7 (12.28%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (12.28%) TACACS
12 6 (10.53%) SAN
13 5 (8.77%) MPLS
13 5 (8.77%) Wireless
14 4 (7.02%) Ethernet
14 4 (7.02%) SD-WAN
15 3 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
15 3 (5.26%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Chocolatey
2 1 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Banking
3 6 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Electronics
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Network Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Senior
3 5 (8.77%) IT Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
5 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Network Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.75%) CSS
2 1 (1.75%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) LAMP
2 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.75%) LDAP
2 1 (1.75%) libvirt
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Clustering
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) PKI
4 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) BYOD
5 1 (1.75%) CCTV
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.51%) SUSE
4 2 (3.51%) VMS
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Migration
2 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (21.05%) ITSM
4 10 (17.54%) Validation
5 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (12.28%) Network Design
7 6 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (10.53%) ITIL
7 6 (10.53%) RBAC
7 6 (10.53%) Security Patching
7 6 (10.53%) Zero Trust
8 5 (8.77%) High Availability
8 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.02%) Change Control
9 4 (7.02%) Data Protection
9 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (7.02%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (5.26%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 6 (10.53%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) Bash
3 3 (5.26%) VBScript
4 2 (3.51%) SQL
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) CCNP
4 8 (14.04%) CCNA
5 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.26%) CCIE
7 3 (5.26%) JNCIP
7 3 (5.26%) JNCIS
8 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.51%) PMP
8 2 (3.51%) Project+ Certification
9 1 (1.75%) CISSP
9 1 (1.75%) GIAC
9 1 (1.75%) MCSA
9 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Firmware
2 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.26%) vSphere
4 2 (3.51%) Ceph
4 2 (3.51%) KVM
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.75%) iptables
5 1 (1.75%) Lustre
5 1 (1.75%) NFS
5 1 (1.75%) Samba
5 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) SCCM
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.53%) FortiGate
4 4 (7.02%) Ansible
5 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.51%) Terraform
5 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.51%) VxRail
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Cisco
2 14 (24.56%) Palo Alto
3 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.54%) VMware
5 8 (14.04%) Juniper
6 7 (12.28%) Fortinet
7 6 (10.53%) AppDynamics
7 6 (10.53%) Dynatrace
7 6 (10.53%) Tenable
8 4 (7.02%) ADVA
8 4 (7.02%) CheckPoint
8 4 (7.02%) Nokia
9 3 (5.26%) Arista
9 3 (5.26%) Aruba
9 3 (5.26%) Dell
9 3 (5.26%) Meraki
9 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
10 2 (3.51%) ForeScout
10 2 (3.51%) Google
10 2 (3.51%) SonicWALL