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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 150 175
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +59
Contract jobs citing VLAN 13 33 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.39% 5.90% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 27
10th Percentile £209 £210 £219
25th Percentile £228 £416 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £514 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +37.07% -11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £539 £570
90th Percentile £509 £564 £700
England median daily rate £450 £431 £473
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +5.00%

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 544 559 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.41% 12.12% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 384 450
10th Percentile £186 £200 £200
25th Percentile £253 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £565
90th Percentile £625 £775 £663
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 26 49
10th Percentile £20.00 £13.31 -
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.89 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.59 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £15.72
90th Percentile £25.90 £48.75 £34.00
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.98% +122.22% -24.72%

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 21 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

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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 21 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
North West +2 7 £475 +53.23% 41
Yorkshire +3 6 £235 -55.24% 30
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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 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (30.77%) Skype for Business
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) DHCP
2 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
3 6 (46.15%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (30.77%) BGP
4 4 (30.77%) MPLS
4 4 (30.77%) Network Security
4 4 (30.77%) Skype
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) VoIP
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
7 1 (7.69%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Designer
1 3 (23.08%) Network Designer
1 3 (23.08%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITSM
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Network Design
3 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Service Design
3 3 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) VB
2 4 (30.77%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (23.08%) CCIE
3 3 (23.08%) CCNP
3 3 (23.08%) JNCIE
3 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) BitLocker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) AppManager
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (23.08%) F5
4 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (15.38%) Ivanti
5 2 (15.38%) VMware
6 1 (7.69%) Aruba
6 1 (7.69%) Red Hat