VLAN Contracts in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 353 354
Rank change year-on-year +44 +1 +176
Contract jobs citing VLAN 63 38 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.23% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.58% 2.48% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 68
10th Percentile £261 £308 £340
25th Percentile £350 £394 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -4.76% +4.90%
75th Percentile £494 £581 £654
90th Percentile £621 £650 £719
England median daily rate £447 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -3.35% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £27.15
25th Percentile - - £30.38
Median hourly rate - - £30.75
75th Percentile - - £31.13
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £30.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.90%

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 1,376 1,535 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.17% 9.47% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,021 1,730
10th Percentile £287 £250 £252
25th Percentile £400 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £619 £665
90th Percentile £716 £703 £750
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 39
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.24 £18.46
25th Percentile - £20.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -34.87% +40.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £68.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £65.00 £80.60
England median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in London.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in London.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in London

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 14 August 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 +16 21 £400 -15.79% 2
Central London +4 6 £413 -14.06% 2
East London +14 3 £585 -
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.17%) nginx
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (6.35%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
6 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.76%) Mimecast
6 3 (4.76%) SaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Akamai
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) Datadog
8 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 41 (65.08%) DNS
2 39 (61.90%) DHCP
3 36 (57.14%) Firewall
4 27 (42.86%) WAN
5 25 (39.68%) VPN
6 23 (36.51%) BGP
6 23 (36.51%) OSPF
7 21 (33.33%) Network Security
8 20 (31.75%) LAN
9 18 (28.57%) SD-WAN
10 17 (26.98%) TCP/IP
11 16 (25.40%) Wireless
12 13 (20.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 12 (19.05%) Cisco Wireless
13 12 (19.05%) SSL
14 11 (17.46%) EIGRP
14 11 (17.46%) WLAN
15 10 (15.87%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (14.29%) DMVPN
17 5 (7.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Local Government
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Aviation
7 1 (1.59%) Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) French Language
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Administrator
3 6 (9.52%) Analyst
3 6 (9.52%) Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Lead
3 6 (9.52%) Network Administrator
3 6 (9.52%) Support Analyst
4 4 (6.35%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (6.35%) Network Security Administrator
4 4 (6.35%) Security Administrator
5 3 (4.76%) Architect
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) SCCM Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (7.94%) iPad
3 5 (7.94%) iPhone
4 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.35%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Replication
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.75%) Windows
2 12 (19.05%) Windows 10
3 5 (7.94%) Android
3 5 (7.94%) Linux
3 5 (7.94%) Mac OS
3 5 (7.94%) Windows 7
4 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.17%) CentOS
5 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
2 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (17.46%) Migration
4 8 (12.70%) Patch Management
5 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
5 6 (9.52%) ITIL
5 6 (9.52%) Time Management
6 5 (7.94%) High Availability
7 4 (6.35%) Business Continuity
7 4 (6.35%) Change Management
7 4 (6.35%) Containerisation
7 4 (6.35%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 4 (6.35%) Threat Management
7 4 (6.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (6.35%) Zero Trust
8 3 (4.76%) Asset Management
8 3 (4.76%) Cloud Security
8 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (4.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.52%) VBScript
3 5 (7.94%) Python
4 2 (3.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (28.57%) CCNP
3 12 (19.05%) CCSA
4 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.94%) CCNA
5 5 (7.94%) JNCIA
6 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.17%) CCIE
7 2 (3.17%) CCSE
7 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.17%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.59%) CCDP
8 1 (1.59%) CEH
8 1 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.59%) CISSP
8 1 (1.59%) Degree
8 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.59%) OSCP
8 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.76%) NIST
4 2 (3.17%) GRC
4 2 (3.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Firmware
2 12 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.76%) vSphere
7 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) SCCM
2 8 (12.70%) CA Spectrum
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (4.76%) Terraform
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco UCCX
6 2 (3.17%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.17%) Icinga
6 2 (3.17%) Nagios
6 2 (3.17%) Observium
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.59%) Netcool
Vendors
1 38 (60.32%) Cisco
2 18 (28.57%) Juniper
3 16 (25.40%) F5
4 15 (23.81%) Microsoft
5 14 (22.22%) CheckPoint
6 11 (17.46%) SolarWinds
6 11 (17.46%) VMware
7 10 (15.87%) Meraki
8 8 (12.70%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.76%) NetApp
10 2 (3.17%) Arista
10 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.17%) Google
10 2 (3.17%) Qualys
10 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
10 2 (3.17%) Tenable
11 1 (1.59%) AirMagnet
11 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.59%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.59%) Veeam