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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 324 340
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +82
Contract jobs citing VLAN 58 35 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.38% 2.58% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 20 33
10th Percentile £200 £243 £300
25th Percentile £356 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £452 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -7.00% +2.59%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £525
90th Percentile £598 £601 £680
England median daily rate £465 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +8.14% +7.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £34.00
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +133.68%

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 1,323 1,355 1,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.52% 10.05% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 812 1,198
10th Percentile £255 £255 £205
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £688 £737 £750
England median daily rate £487 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.55% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 14 70
10th Percentile £20.18 £23.91 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £28.07 £40.25 £56.06
90th Percentile £93.75 £57.40 £72.62
England median hourly rate £31.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.26% -31.58% +138.93%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -14 3 £538 -1.92% 10
South London - 2 £463 - 3
East London -3 1 £675 +175.51% 3
West London - 1 £275 -
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%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 11 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
4 7 (12.07%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) IaaS
5 4 (6.90%) PaaS
5 4 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (5.17%) Datadog
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (50.00%) Firewall
2 21 (36.21%) Network Security
3 19 (32.76%) DNS
3 19 (32.76%) VPN
3 19 (32.76%) WAN
4 17 (29.31%) DHCP
4 17 (29.31%) LAN
5 14 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (22.41%) BGP
7 11 (18.97%) TCP/IP
8 10 (17.24%) OSPF
9 9 (15.52%) MPLS
10 7 (12.07%) SD-WAN
11 5 (8.62%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (8.62%) Ethernet
11 5 (8.62%) TACACS
12 4 (6.90%) IPsec
12 4 (6.90%) SAN
12 4 (6.90%) Wireless
13 3 (5.17%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) MySQL
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Chocolatey
2 2 (3.45%) Burp Suite
2 2 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Metasploit
2 2 (3.45%) sqlmap
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Electronics
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (6.90%) Architect
3 4 (6.90%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (6.90%) Lead
3 4 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (6.90%) Senior
3 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Consultant
4 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Access Control Consultant
5 2 (3.45%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Network Consultant
5 2 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.45%) Technical Support
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.72%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.72%) CSS
2 1 (1.72%) HTML
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%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.72%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.45%) PKI
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) CCTV
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Migration
2 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.24%) Network Design
3 10 (17.24%) Validation
4 7 (12.07%) ITSM
5 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (10.34%) Zero Trust
6 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (8.62%) ITIL
6 5 (8.62%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.90%) Agile
7 4 (6.90%) Application Security
7 4 (6.90%) Data Protection
7 4 (6.90%) High Availability
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.90%) Network Architecture
7 4 (6.90%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (6.90%) RBAC
7 4 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.17%) VBScript
5 2 (3.45%) Perl
5 2 (3.45%) SQL
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (18.97%) CCNP
4 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
5 8 (13.79%) CCNA
6 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.17%) CCIE
8 3 (5.17%) JNCIP
8 3 (5.17%) JNCIS
9 2 (3.45%) CCDP
9 2 (3.45%) Degree
9 2 (3.45%) GPEN
9 2 (3.45%) GXPN
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.45%) OSCE
9 2 (3.45%) OSCP
9 2 (3.45%) PMP
9 2 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) Firmware
3 3 (5.17%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) KVM
3 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.45%) Ceph
5 1 (1.72%) iptables
5 1 (1.72%) Lustre
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.72%) NFS
5 1 (1.72%) Samba
5 1 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.72%) Squid
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) SCCM
2 6 (10.34%) FortiGate
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
5 3 (5.17%) Terraform
6 2 (3.45%) Nessus
6 2 (3.45%) Nmap
6 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.72%) Grafana
7 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.72%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.72%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Cisco
2 13 (22.41%) Palo Alto
3 10 (17.24%) Juniper
3 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.34%) Meraki
4 6 (10.34%) VMware
5 5 (8.62%) Fortinet
5 5 (8.62%) Zscaler
6 4 (6.90%) ADVA
6 4 (6.90%) Aruba
6 4 (6.90%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) Nokia
7 3 (5.17%) AppDynamics
7 3 (5.17%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
7 3 (5.17%) Tenable
8 2 (3.45%) Google
8 2 (3.45%) Okta
8 2 (3.45%) Red Hat