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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 296 346
Rank change year-on-year -62 +50 +6
Contract jobs citing VLAN 91 63 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.50% 4.56% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 41 17
10th Percentile £366 £256 £350
25th Percentile £400 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £401 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -22.98% -0.95%
75th Percentile £530 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £625 £650
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -15.00%

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 1,656 1,383 1,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.35% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 888 991
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.38% -5.91%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £623
90th Percentile £725 £712 £703
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 28
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.01 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.84% -31.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.38 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £61.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.64% -2.75%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -5 21 £438 +9.38% 9
West London -40 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 (2.20%) Apache
1 2 (2.20%) CloudStack
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.07%) Azure
2 10 (10.99%) AWS
2 10 (10.99%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.69%) GitHub
6 6 (6.59%) GCP
6 6 (6.59%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) PaaS
6 6 (6.59%) SaaS
7 5 (5.49%) Cohesity
7 5 (5.49%) Datadog
7 5 (5.49%) Nutanix
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.20%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 62 (68.13%) Firewall
2 34 (37.36%) BGP
2 34 (37.36%) VPN
3 25 (27.47%) Network Security
3 25 (27.47%) OSPF
4 23 (25.27%) DNS
5 21 (23.08%) WAN
6 20 (21.98%) Multicast
7 18 (19.78%) DHCP
8 16 (17.58%) Wireless
9 14 (15.38%) TCP/IP
10 13 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (13.19%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (12.09%) TACACS
13 8 (8.79%) IPsec
14 7 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
15 6 (6.59%) SAN
15 6 (6.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Chocolatey
3 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
General
1 30 (32.97%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.59%) Retail
7 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Automotive
9 2 (2.20%) French Language
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (54.95%) Network Engineer
2 28 (30.77%) Senior
3 22 (24.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Implementation Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Testing Specialist
10 3 (3.30%) Network Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.20%) .NET
3 2 (2.20%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.20%) eBPF
4 1 (1.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.89%) Replication
3 8 (8.79%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.59%) Digital Signage
5 5 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (5.49%) Robotics
6 4 (4.40%) Clustering
6 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.40%) PKI
6 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.30%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.20%) Life Science
8 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.98%) Windows
2 13 (14.29%) Linux
3 7 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.40%) SUSE
4 4 (4.40%) VMS
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Debian
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) Migration
2 30 (32.97%) Validation
3 19 (20.88%) ITSM
4 13 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 11 (12.09%) Runbook
6 10 (10.99%) Low Latency
6 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.89%) DevOps
7 9 (9.89%) High Availability
7 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (9.89%) ITIL
7 9 (9.89%) Zero Trust
8 7 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.69%) Load Balancing
8 7 (7.69%) Network Design
8 7 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (6.59%) Change Management
9 6 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (6.59%) RBAC
9 6 (6.59%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.77%) Python
2 11 (12.09%) Bash
3 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.20%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (14.29%) CCNP
3 9 (9.89%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.79%) CCNA
5 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.40%) Degree
5 4 (4.40%) JNCIP
5 4 (4.40%) JNCIS
6 3 (3.30%) CISM
6 3 (3.30%) CISSP
6 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.20%) PMP
8 1 (1.10%) CCIE
8 1 (1.10%) CCSA
8 1 (1.10%) CCSE
8 1 (1.10%) CWNA
8 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) QA
1 6 (6.59%) SLA
2 2 (2.20%) GMP
2 2 (2.20%) GxP
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.49%) Firmware
4 5 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.40%) vSphere
6 3 (3.30%) KVM
7 2 (2.20%) Ceph
7 2 (2.20%) NFS
8 1 (1.10%) Docker
8 1 (1.10%) QEMU
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Ansible
2 15 (16.48%) FortiGate
3 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.59%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (6.59%) SCCM
5 4 (4.40%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (4.40%) systemd
5 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.40%) VxRail
6 3 (3.30%) Grafana
6 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.20%) SELinux
7 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.10%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (64.84%) Cisco
2 26 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 24 (26.37%) Palo Alto
4 18 (19.78%) Microsoft
5 14 (15.38%) Arista
5 14 (15.38%) F5
6 12 (13.19%) VMware
7 11 (12.09%) Juniper
8 9 (9.89%) CheckPoint
8 9 (9.89%) Zscaler
9 8 (8.79%) Aruba
10 7 (7.69%) Dynatrace
11 6 (6.59%) Dell
12 5 (5.49%) AppDynamics
12 5 (5.49%) CyberArk
12 5 (5.49%) Tenable
13 4 (4.40%) MikroTik
14 3 (3.30%) Google
14 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
14 3 (3.30%) Splunk