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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 318 321
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 +142
Contract jobs citing VLAN 45 48 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% 3.40% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 37
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £385 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £594
90th Percentile £647 £649 £665
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +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 £66.50 - £51.13
% change year-on-year - - +70.44%

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 1,262 1,410 1,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.77% 9.90% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 868 1,253
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -8 3 £538 -1.83% 4
West London - 3 £350 - 2
East London +2 1 £675 +175.51% 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 (6.67%) OpenStack
1 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.67%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
8 1 (2.22%) IaaS
8 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
8 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (48.89%) Firewall
2 18 (40.00%) WAN
3 17 (37.78%) Network Security
4 14 (31.11%) DHCP
4 14 (31.11%) DNS
5 13 (28.89%) LAN
6 12 (26.67%) VPN
7 10 (22.22%) BGP
7 10 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP
9 7 (15.56%) OSPF
9 7 (15.56%) SD-WAN
10 6 (13.33%) MPLS
11 5 (11.11%) Wireless
12 4 (8.89%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (8.89%) IPsec
12 4 (8.89%) TACACS
13 3 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (6.67%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) MySQL
1 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Burp Suite
1 2 (4.44%) Git
1 2 (4.44%) Metasploit
1 2 (4.44%) sqlmap
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Electronics
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Lead
3 4 (8.89%) Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Consultant
4 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix Support
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) LAMP
2 1 (2.22%) LangChain
2 1 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (2.22%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) libvirt
2 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
2 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.22%) CCTV
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (15.56%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.22%) CentOS
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Migration
2 10 (22.22%) Network Design
3 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.78%) Validation
5 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 5 (11.11%) High Availability
5 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.89%) Agile
6 4 (8.89%) Application Security
6 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
6 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.89%) ITIL
6 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (8.89%) Zero Trust
7 3 (6.67%) Business Continuity
7 3 (6.67%) Change Control
7 3 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.67%) ITSM
7 3 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation
7 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) Bash
3 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.44%) Perl
4 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) VBScript
5 1 (2.22%) Go
5 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (22.22%) CCNP
3 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (13.33%) CCNA
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.67%) JNCIP
6 3 (6.67%) JNCIS
6 3 (6.67%) OSCP
7 2 (4.44%) CCDP
7 2 (4.44%) CCIE
7 2 (4.44%) CISSP
7 2 (4.44%) Degree
7 2 (4.44%) GPEN
7 2 (4.44%) OSCE
7 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.44%) PMP
7 2 (4.44%) Project+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GRC
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
1 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Firmware
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) KVM
4 2 (4.44%) Ceph
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.22%) iptables
5 1 (2.22%) Lustre
5 1 (2.22%) NFS
5 1 (2.22%) Samba
5 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Squid
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) SCCM
2 4 (8.89%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) Nessus
4 2 (4.44%) Nmap
4 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.22%) Grafana
5 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) SELinux
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Cisco
2 9 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (17.78%) Juniper
4 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
5 6 (13.33%) Meraki
6 4 (8.89%) Aruba
6 4 (8.89%) VMware
7 3 (6.67%) Citrix
7 3 (6.67%) Dell
7 3 (6.67%) F5
7 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.44%) ForeScout
8 2 (4.44%) Google
8 2 (4.44%) NetApp
8 2 (4.44%) Okta
8 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.44%) Zscaler