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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 310 352
Rank change year-on-year -38 +42 +2
Contract jobs citing VLAN 89 62 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.46% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.64% 4.42% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 41 18
10th Percentile £369 £256 £287
25th Percentile £409 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £401 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -21.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £531 £475 £591
90th Percentile £600 £625 £650
England median daily rate £475 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.11% -3.14%

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 1,577 1,404 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 10.32% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 919 1,047
10th Percentile £300 £279 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £729 £715 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 31 33
10th Percentile £18.68 £19.46 £15.60
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £63.25 £64.00
England median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -4 15 £425 +3.03% 6
South London - 2 £463 - 3
West London -35 1 £500 +25.00% 3
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 38 (42.70%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) AWS
3 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (11.24%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (10.11%) Datadog
5 9 (10.11%) GCP
5 9 (10.11%) IaaS
5 9 (10.11%) PaaS
5 9 (10.11%) SaaS
6 7 (7.87%) GitHub
7 5 (5.62%) Cohesity
7 5 (5.62%) Nutanix
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (71.91%) Firewall
2 41 (46.07%) VPN
3 31 (34.83%) BGP
4 29 (32.58%) DNS
5 28 (31.46%) Network Security
6 25 (28.09%) OSPF
7 22 (24.72%) DHCP
8 16 (17.98%) TCP/IP
8 16 (17.98%) WAN
9 14 (15.73%) Multicast
10 13 (14.61%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (14.61%) Wireless
11 12 (13.48%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (12.36%) TACACS
13 9 (10.11%) SAN
14 7 (7.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (7.87%) IPsec
14 7 (7.87%) LAN
15 6 (6.74%) Cisco Wireless
15 6 (6.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Chocolatey
2 7 (7.87%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 22 (24.72%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Retail
6 4 (4.49%) Automotive
7 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (51.69%) Network Engineer
2 24 (26.97%) Senior
3 16 (17.98%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Implementation Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Network Implementation Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior IT Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Testing Specialist
9 4 (4.49%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.25%) cloud-init
2 2 (2.25%) eBPF
2 2 (2.25%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) .NET
3 1 (1.12%) CSS
3 1 (1.12%) HTML
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.11%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (10.11%) Replication
3 8 (8.99%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.62%) Digital Signage
4 5 (5.62%) Robotics
5 4 (4.49%) Clustering
5 4 (4.49%) PKI
5 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.25%) Life Science
7 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.12%) CMDB
8 1 (1.12%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Windows
2 12 (13.48%) Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.49%) SUSE
4 4 (4.49%) VMS
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.12%) Debian
6 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Migration
2 25 (28.09%) Validation
3 21 (23.60%) ITSM
4 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.61%) Project Delivery
6 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (12.36%) Zero Trust
7 10 (11.24%) Runbook
8 9 (10.11%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (10.11%) Security Patching
9 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.99%) ITIL
10 7 (7.87%) DevOps
10 7 (7.87%) Low Latency
10 7 (7.87%) Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (7.87%) RBAC
11 6 (6.74%) Change Management
11 6 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.74%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) Python
2 12 (13.48%) Bash
3 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.12%) Java
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (15.73%) CCNP
3 9 (10.11%) CCNA
4 7 (7.87%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.49%) JNCIP
5 4 (4.49%) JNCIS
5 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.37%) CISM
6 3 (3.37%) CISSP
6 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.37%) Degree
7 2 (2.25%) CCIE
7 2 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.25%) PMP
7 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.12%) CCSA
8 1 (1.12%) CCSE
8 1 (1.12%) CWNA
8 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) SLA
2 6 (6.74%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) GMP
3 2 (2.25%) GxP
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (12.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.74%) Firmware
4 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.62%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.62%) vSphere
6 3 (3.37%) KVM
7 2 (2.25%) Ceph
7 2 (2.25%) NFS
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.12%) Docker
8 1 (1.12%) QEMU
8 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) Ansible
2 16 (17.98%) FortiGate
3 14 (15.73%) Terraform
4 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (10.11%) SCCM
6 5 (5.62%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (4.49%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (4.49%) systemd
7 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.49%) VxRail
8 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
8 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.25%) Grafana
9 2 (2.25%) SELinux
9 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (1.12%) PaperCut
10 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (57.30%) Cisco
2 25 (28.09%) Palo Alto
3 24 (26.97%) Fortinet
4 22 (24.72%) Microsoft
5 16 (17.98%) VMware
6 13 (14.61%) F5
6 13 (14.61%) Juniper
7 12 (13.48%) Zscaler
8 10 (11.24%) Dynatrace
9 9 (10.11%) AppDynamics
9 9 (10.11%) Arista
9 9 (10.11%) CheckPoint
9 9 (10.11%) Tenable
10 6 (6.74%) Dell
11 5 (5.62%) CyberArk
12 4 (4.49%) MikroTik
13 3 (3.37%) Aruba
13 3 (3.37%) Blue Coat
13 3 (3.37%) Google
14 2 (2.25%) Infoblox