VLAN Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing VLAN 1 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% 3.27% 1.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 21.74% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £358 -
25th Percentile - £406 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £188
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +120.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile - £419 £206
90th Percentile - £423 £222
South East median daily rate £413 £325 £545
% change year-on-year +26.92% -40.37% +21.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 23 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.46% 15.03% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 21
10th Percentile £378 £155 £180
25th Percentile £403 £350 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £340
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +21.32% -18.81%
75th Percentile £559 £563 £450
90th Percentile £600 £645 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +7.97% +0.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Oxford - 1 £400 - 1
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware