VLAN Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 125 117
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +68
Contract jobs citing VLAN 22 11 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.01% 0.37% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.73% 2.35% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 32
10th Percentile £147 - -
25th Percentile £154 £190 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £566 £388 £578
90th Percentile £616 £510 £700
England median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - - £25.31
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - £30.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 469 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.51% 15.89% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 286 337
10th Percentile £186 £200 £249
25th Percentile £266 £307 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -1.39% +11.39%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £685 £675 £704
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 15
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.88 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.22 £14.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.73% -32.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £25.55 £28.13
90th Percentile £42.48 £28.75 £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +131.58% -22.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 Midlands +14 15 £335 +67.50% 20
East Midlands +7 7 £408 +8.67% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) Firewall
2 14 (63.64%) OSPF
3 12 (54.55%) BGP
3 12 (54.55%) IPsec
4 11 (50.00%) SSL
5 9 (40.91%) Network Security
6 7 (31.82%) DNS
6 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
7 6 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 6 (27.27%) LAN
7 6 (27.27%) VPN
8 5 (22.73%) WAN
9 4 (18.18%) DHCP
9 4 (18.18%) HTTP
9 4 (18.18%) Wireless
9 4 (18.18%) Wireshark
10 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (9.09%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) Maven
1 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Check Point Expert
2 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Field Support Technician
3 3 (13.64%) IT Support
3 3 (13.64%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (13.64%) IT Technician
3 3 (13.64%) Support Technician
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.09%) LDAP
1 2 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (9.09%) CentOS
2 2 (9.09%) Debian
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) High Availability
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) SIEM
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (9.09%) Change Management
6 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (9.09%) Network Design
6 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
6 2 (9.09%) Product Requirements
6 2 (9.09%) Product Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Product Vision
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) Server Management
6 2 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) CCNP
2 6 (27.27%) CCSE
3 5 (22.73%) CCNA
3 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) CCENT
4 3 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) CISSP
6 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
6 1 (4.55%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Def Stans
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Nagios
3 2 (9.09%) Nessus
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco
1 8 (36.36%) Juniper
1 8 (36.36%) SolarWinds
2 6 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 6 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) VMware
5 2 (9.09%) Arista
5 2 (9.09%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (9.09%) Sophos
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) Openreach
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam
6 1 (4.55%) Zerto
6 1 (4.55%) Zscaler