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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 342 350
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +130
Contract jobs citing VLAN 58 46 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.39% 3.04% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 22 41
10th Percentile £350 £351 £313
25th Percentile £381 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £476 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -2.36% +5.69%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £660 £650 £700
England median daily rate £458 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +8.93% -11.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.54
25th Percentile - - £30.78
Median hourly rate - - £32.38
75th Percentile - - £34.78
90th Percentile - - £35.51
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £34.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.33%

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 1,321 1,512 2,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.37% 9.63% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 932 1,422
10th Percentile £304 £260 £233
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -1.65% -3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 14 56
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.65 £18.93
25th Percentile - £26.56 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +44.66% +3.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £47.50 £60.44
90th Percentile £61.78 £73.77 £77.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
West London -2 8 £388 -18.42%
Central London +5 5 £538 -1.83% 7
East London +5 1 £675 +175.51%
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 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
2 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) AWS
3 13 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (13.79%) GCP
5 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 5 (8.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.17%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
9 1 (1.72%) Akamai
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.72%) Cloud Run
9 1 (1.72%) IaaS
9 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (58.62%) Firewall
2 29 (50.00%) DHCP
2 29 (50.00%) DNS
3 27 (46.55%) WAN
4 22 (37.93%) VPN
5 21 (36.21%) Network Security
6 20 (34.48%) LAN
7 18 (31.03%) BGP
8 17 (29.31%) TCP/IP
9 15 (25.86%) OSPF
10 14 (24.14%) SD-WAN
11 12 (20.69%) Wireless
12 8 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (12.07%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (12.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (10.34%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (10.34%) IPsec
14 6 (10.34%) WLAN
15 5 (8.62%) EIGRP
15 5 (8.62%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) MySQL
1 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.45%) Burp Suite
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) Metasploit
2 2 (3.45%) sqlmap
General
1 26 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Local Government
5 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) French Language
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (43.10%) Network Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Juniper Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Security Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Support Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) LAN Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Network Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Network Security Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.72%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.72%) JSON
2 1 (1.72%) LAMP
2 1 (1.72%) LangChain
2 1 (1.72%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.72%) LDAP
2 1 (1.72%) libvirt
2 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.34%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (8.62%) iPad
3 5 (8.62%) iPhone
4 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Replication
6 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.72%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.93%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Windows 10
3 7 (12.07%) Linux
4 6 (10.34%) Mac OS
5 5 (8.62%) Android
5 5 (8.62%) Windows 7
6 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
7 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (3.45%) CentOS
9 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Migration
2 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.24%) Network Design
3 10 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
4 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (8.62%) Patch Management
4 5 (8.62%) Validation
5 4 (6.90%) Agile
5 4 (6.90%) Application Security
5 4 (6.90%) Containerisation
5 4 (6.90%) High Availability
5 4 (6.90%) Incident Response
5 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (6.90%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (6.90%) Zero Trust
6 3 (5.17%) Change Control
6 3 (5.17%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (5.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) Bash
2 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) VBScript
4 2 (3.45%) Perl
5 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (29.31%) CCNP
3 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) CCSA
5 5 (8.62%) CCNA
5 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.17%) CCDP
7 3 (5.17%) Degree
7 3 (5.17%) JNCIP
7 3 (5.17%) JNCIS
7 3 (5.17%) OSCP
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.45%) CCIE
8 2 (3.45%) CISSP
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.45%) GPEN
8 2 (3.45%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.45%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.45%) GRC
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.97%) Firmware
3 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.17%) Docker
6 2 (3.45%) KVM
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.45%) vSphere
7 1 (1.72%) Ceph
7 1 (1.72%) iptables
7 1 (1.72%) Lustre
7 1 (1.72%) NFS
7 1 (1.72%) Samba
7 1 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.72%) Squid
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) SCCM
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) CA Spectrum
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.17%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.17%) HAProxy
4 3 (5.17%) Terraform
5 2 (3.45%) Nessus
5 2 (3.45%) Nmap
5 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Icinga
6 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.72%) Nagios
6 1 (1.72%) Observium
6 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Cisco
2 16 (27.59%) Juniper
3 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.97%) F5
4 11 (18.97%) Meraki
4 11 (18.97%) Palo Alto
5 8 (13.79%) VMware
6 6 (10.34%) CheckPoint
6 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.17%) Citrix
7 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 3 (5.17%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.17%) NetApp
7 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.45%) Arista
8 2 (3.45%) Aruba
8 2 (3.45%) Google
8 2 (3.45%) Qualys
8 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) Zscaler