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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 324 340
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +134
Contract jobs citing VLAN 48 49 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.76% 3.27% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 35
10th Percentile £348 £350 £300
25th Percentile £370 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £597
90th Percentile £640 £650 £673
England median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.33% - -
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 1,276 1,497 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.91% 9.98% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 918 1,332
10th Percentile £311 £257 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £76.91 £76.63
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -8 8 £388 -18.42% 3
Central London -5 3 £538 -1.83% 4
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 (6.25%) OpenStack
1 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) AWS
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Run
8 1 (2.08%) IaaS
8 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (58.33%) Firewall
2 22 (45.83%) WAN
3 21 (43.75%) DHCP
3 21 (43.75%) DNS
3 21 (43.75%) Network Security
4 17 (35.42%) VPN
5 15 (31.25%) BGP
5 15 (31.25%) LAN
6 13 (27.08%) SD-WAN
7 12 (25.00%) OSPF
8 11 (22.92%) TCP/IP
9 10 (20.83%) Wireless
10 8 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
11 6 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (12.50%) WLAN
12 5 (10.42%) DMVPN
12 5 (10.42%) EIGRP
12 5 (10.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) MySQL
1 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Burp Suite
1 2 (4.17%) Git
1 2 (4.17%) Metasploit
1 2 (4.17%) sqlmap
General
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Juniper Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Architect
3 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Consultant
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Administrator
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Citrix Support Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Security Administrator
5 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.08%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.08%) JSON
2 1 (2.08%) LAMP
2 1 (2.08%) LangChain
2 1 (2.08%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (2.08%) LDAP
2 1 (2.08%) libvirt
2 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (4.17%) iPad
3 2 (4.17%) iPhone
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.08%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Windows
2 7 (14.58%) Linux
3 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.17%) Android
5 2 (4.17%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.08%) CentOS
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.92%) Migration
3 8 (16.67%) Network Design
4 7 (14.58%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (14.58%) Validation
5 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security
5 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.33%) Agile
6 4 (8.33%) Application Security
6 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.25%) Business Continuity
7 3 (6.25%) High Availability
7 3 (6.25%) ITSM
7 3 (6.25%) Patch Management
7 3 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (6.25%) Robotic Process Automation
7 3 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) Bash
3 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.17%) Perl
4 2 (4.17%) VBScript
5 1 (2.08%) Go
5 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (31.25%) CCNP
3 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) CCSA
5 4 (8.33%) CCNA
6 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.25%) JNCIP
6 3 (6.25%) JNCIS
6 3 (6.25%) OSCP
6 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.17%) CCDP
7 2 (4.17%) CCIE
7 2 (4.17%) CISSP
7 2 (4.17%) Degree
7 2 (4.17%) GPEN
7 2 (4.17%) GXPN
7 2 (4.17%) OSCE
7 2 (4.17%) SANS
8 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.17%) GRC
1 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.17%) NIST
1 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 9 (18.75%) Firmware
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Docker
3 3 (6.25%) KVM
4 2 (4.17%) Ceph
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.08%) iptables
5 1 (2.08%) Lustre
5 1 (2.08%) NFS
5 1 (2.08%) Samba
5 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.08%) Squid
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) SCCM
2 4 (8.33%) Ansible
2 4 (8.33%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (4.17%) Nessus
4 2 (4.17%) Nmap
4 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.08%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Cisco
2 13 (27.08%) Juniper
3 11 (22.92%) Meraki
4 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 9 (18.75%) Palo Alto
5 8 (16.67%) F5
6 7 (14.58%) CheckPoint
7 6 (12.50%) SolarWinds
8 4 (8.33%) VMware
9 3 (6.25%) Citrix
9 3 (6.25%) Dell
9 3 (6.25%) Fortinet
9 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
10 2 (4.17%) Aruba
10 2 (4.17%) Google
10 2 (4.17%) NetApp
10 2 (4.17%) Okta
10 2 (4.17%) Qualys
10 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
10 2 (4.17%) Zscaler