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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 312 329
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +128
Contract jobs citing VLAN 46 47 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.69% 3.39% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 39
10th Percentile £250 £350 £300
25th Percentile £356 £388 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.26% +5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £597
90th Percentile £642 £639 £690
England median daily rate £475 £434 £450
% change year-on-year +9.51% -3.61% +1.41%
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 1,247 1,387 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.64% 9.89% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 844 1,278
10th Percentile £283 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £632 £634
90th Percentile £700 £736 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 62
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.91 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +17.90% +14.50%
75th Percentile £26.40 £40.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £43.75 £75.99
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 3 £538 -1.83% 3
East London -1 1 £675 +175.51%
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 (6.52%) OpenStack
1 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (45.65%) Firewall
2 16 (34.78%) Network Security
2 16 (34.78%) WAN
3 13 (28.26%) DHCP
3 13 (28.26%) DNS
3 13 (28.26%) LAN
4 11 (23.91%) VPN
5 10 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (19.57%) BGP
6 9 (19.57%) TCP/IP
7 8 (17.39%) MPLS
8 6 (13.04%) OSPF
8 6 (13.04%) SD-WAN
9 5 (10.87%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (10.87%) TACACS
10 4 (8.70%) Ethernet
10 4 (8.70%) IPsec
10 4 (8.70%) Wireless
11 3 (6.52%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (6.52%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Burp Suite
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) Metasploit
1 2 (4.35%) sqlmap
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Electronics
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Lead
3 4 (8.70%) Consultant
3 4 (8.70%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Architect
4 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Access Control Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Citrix Support
5 2 (4.35%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Network Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.17%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) LAMP
2 1 (2.17%) LangChain
2 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (2.17%) LDAP
2 1 (2.17%) libvirt
2 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.17%) CCTV
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Windows
2 7 (15.22%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.17%) CentOS
5 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Migration
1 10 (21.74%) Network Design
1 10 (21.74%) Validation
2 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (8.70%) Agile
4 4 (8.70%) Application Security
4 4 (8.70%) Containerisation
4 4 (8.70%) High Availability
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (8.70%) ITIL
4 4 (8.70%) ITSM
4 4 (8.70%) RBAC
4 4 (8.70%) Zero Trust
5 3 (6.52%) Change Control
5 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
5 3 (6.52%) Network Architecture
5 3 (6.52%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (6.52%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.35%) Perl
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) VBScript
5 1 (2.17%) Go
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (19.57%) CCNP
2 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) CCNA
3 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) JNCIP
5 3 (6.52%) JNCIS
6 2 (4.35%) CCDP
6 2 (4.35%) CCIE
6 2 (4.35%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) GPEN
6 2 (4.35%) OSCE
6 2 (4.35%) OSCP
6 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PMP
6 2 (4.35%) Project+ Certification
6 2 (4.35%) SANS
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) KVM
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Ceph
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.17%) iptables
4 1 (2.17%) Lustre
4 1 (2.17%) NFS
4 1 (2.17%) Samba
4 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.17%) Squid
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) SCCM
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.52%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Nessus
4 2 (4.35%) Nmap
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.17%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Cisco
2 10 (21.74%) Palo Alto
3 7 (15.22%) Juniper
4 6 (13.04%) Meraki
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.70%) Aruba
6 3 (6.52%) ADVA
6 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.52%) Citrix
6 3 (6.52%) Dell
6 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.52%) Nokia
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.52%) VMware
7 2 (4.35%) F5
7 2 (4.35%) ForeScout
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Okta
7 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.35%) Zscaler