VLAN Contracts in the North West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 124 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing VLAN 7 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 3.57% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £356 £186 £204
25th Percentile £421 £210 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £220 £431
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -48.99% +1.47%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £475
90th Percentile - £500 £565
England median daily rate £443 £431 £469
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cumbria - 4 £465 - 2
Cheshire -5 2 £475 -
Manchester +13 1 £325 +47.73% 9
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (57.14%) DHCP
3 4 (57.14%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) Skype
3 4 (57.14%) WAN
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) BGP
5 2 (28.57%) MPLS
5 2 (28.57%) Network Security
5 2 (28.57%) OSPF
General
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (57.14%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Service Design
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) VB
1 4 (57.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) JNCIE
3 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) BitLocker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) Meraki