VLAN Contract Job Trends in North Wales

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Wales > North Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Wales requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VLAN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Wales 2.13% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £158 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
75th Percentile £173 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £293 - £290
% change year-on-year - - -47.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Wales

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 North Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 25.53% 50.00% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £155 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £134 £638
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% -78.91% +256.15%
75th Percentile £171 £400 £738
90th Percentile £205 - -
Wales median daily rate £280 £300 £340
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% -28.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £37.50 £14.36
% change year-on-year +113.33% +161.14% -

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VLAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales.

VLAN job vacancy trend in North Wales

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in North Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Wrexham - 1 £165 -
VLAN
Wales

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware