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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 312 329
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +78
Contract jobs citing VLAN 59 38 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.34% 2.87% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 32
10th Percentile £200 £243 £300
25th Percentile £356 £363 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -5.52% +1.16%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £525
90th Percentile £588 £594 £599
England median daily rate £472 £443 £426
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.81% -7.78%

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 1,361 1,326 1,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.37% 9.99% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 820 1,178
10th Percentile £263 £260 £200
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 72
10th Percentile £20.76 - £14.63
25th Percentile £22.95 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +48.94% -8.60%
75th Percentile £29.00 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.88 £60.35 £61.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%

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 5 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 5 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 -18 4 £425 -22.37% 12
South London - 2 £463 - 3
East London -3 1 £675 +175.51% 1
West London - 1 £275 - 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 (5.08%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (11.86%) Entra ID
3 7 (11.86%) GCP
4 6 (10.17%) IaaS
4 6 (10.17%) PaaS
4 6 (10.17%) SaaS
5 5 (8.47%) Datadog
6 3 (5.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (50.85%) Firewall
2 23 (38.98%) DNS
3 22 (37.29%) VPN
4 21 (35.59%) Network Security
5 20 (33.90%) DHCP
6 18 (30.51%) WAN
7 16 (27.12%) LAN
7 16 (27.12%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (22.03%) BGP
9 11 (18.64%) OSPF
9 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
10 9 (15.25%) MPLS
11 6 (10.17%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (10.17%) SD-WAN
11 6 (10.17%) TACACS
12 5 (8.47%) Ethernet
12 5 (8.47%) SAN
13 4 (6.78%) Wireless
14 3 (5.08%) IPsec
14 3 (5.08%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) MySQL
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Chocolatey
2 2 (3.39%) Burp Suite
2 2 (3.39%) Metasploit
2 2 (3.39%) sqlmap
3 1 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Electronics
8 1 (1.69%) Local Government
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (42.37%) Network Engineer
2 7 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (8.47%) Senior
4 4 (6.78%) Architect
4 4 (6.78%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Lead
4 4 (6.78%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Senior IT Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Consultant
5 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Network Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Access Control Consultant
6 2 (3.39%) Citrix Support Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.69%) CSS
2 1 (1.69%) HTML
2 1 (1.69%) LAMP
2 1 (1.69%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) libvirt
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.47%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.39%) PKI
4 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) BYOD
5 1 (1.69%) CCTV
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) NHS
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.20%) Windows
2 5 (8.47%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Unix
5 1 (1.69%) VMS
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) Migration
2 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.95%) ITSM
4 9 (15.25%) Network Design
4 9 (15.25%) Validation
5 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.17%) Zero Trust
7 5 (8.47%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) ITIL
7 5 (8.47%) RBAC
7 5 (8.47%) Security Patching
7 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.78%) Cloud Security
8 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
8 4 (6.78%) High Availability
8 4 (6.78%) Network Architecture
8 4 (6.78%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (6.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (5.08%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) Bash
1 8 (13.56%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.08%) VBScript
4 2 (3.39%) Perl
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Go
5 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (20.34%) CCNP
2 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) CCNA
3 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.08%) CCIE
6 3 (5.08%) JNCIP
6 3 (5.08%) JNCIS
7 2 (3.39%) CCDP
7 2 (3.39%) Degree
7 2 (3.39%) GPEN
7 2 (3.39%) GXPN
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.39%) PMP
7 2 (3.39%) Project+ Certification
7 2 (3.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Firmware
2 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.08%) Docker
4 2 (3.39%) Ceph
4 2 (3.39%) KVM
5 1 (1.69%) iptables
5 1 (1.69%) Lustre
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.69%) NFS
5 1 (1.69%) Samba
5 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) SCCM
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.17%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.08%) Ansible
5 2 (3.39%) Nessus
5 2 (3.39%) Nmap
5 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.39%) Terraform
6 1 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.69%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Cisco
2 12 (20.34%) Palo Alto
3 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
4 9 (15.25%) Juniper
5 8 (13.56%) VMware
6 6 (10.17%) Meraki
7 5 (8.47%) AppDynamics
7 5 (8.47%) Dynatrace
7 5 (8.47%) Tenable
7 5 (8.47%) Zscaler
8 4 (6.78%) ADVA
8 4 (6.78%) Citrix
8 4 (6.78%) Fortinet
8 4 (6.78%) Nokia
9 3 (5.08%) Aruba
9 3 (5.08%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.39%) F5
10 2 (3.39%) ForeScout
10 2 (3.39%) Okta
10 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow