VLAN Contracts in the North of England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 153 183
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +37
Contract jobs citing VLAN 17 32 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.67% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.08% 5.34% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 30
10th Percentile £216 £210 £162
25th Percentile £226 £408 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £514 £400
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +28.50% -17.95%
75th Percentile £461 £539 £539
90th Percentile £488 £564 £700
England median daily rate £443 £431 £469
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the North of England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the North of England

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +1 10 £243 -53.81% 8
North West +11 7 £470 +113.64% 15
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England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (23.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) OneDrive
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) VPN
2 12 (70.59%) DNS
3 11 (64.71%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (58.82%) DHCP
4 10 (58.82%) LAN
4 10 (58.82%) WAN
5 7 (41.18%) Firewall
6 5 (29.41%) VoIP
7 4 (23.53%) Skype
8 3 (17.65%) BGP
8 3 (17.65%) MPLS
8 3 (17.65%) Network Security
8 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
9 2 (11.76%) OSPF
10 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
10 1 (5.88%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Network Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Manager
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) ITSM
2 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
3 4 (23.53%) Disk Encryption
3 4 (23.53%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Network Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Network Design
5 2 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Service Design
5 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.76%) Use Case
6 1 (5.88%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) VB
2 4 (23.53%) VBScript
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) CCIE
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) CCNP
4 2 (11.76%) JNCIE
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) SCCM
2 5 (29.41%) AppManager
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Ivanti
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.76%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) Aruba
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat