VLAN Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing VLAN 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.60% - 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
Hampshire median daily rate £650 £541 £538
% change year-on-year +20.09% +0.70% -14.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 40 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.91% 28.99% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 38
10th Percentile £363 £416 £300
25th Percentile £466 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £457
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.42% +7.41%
75th Percentile £663 £488 £570
90th Percentile £700 £566 £636
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £51.40
25th Percentile - £54.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £69.65
90th Percentile - £75.00 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £72.00 £67.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +17.39% +16.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing VLAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing VLAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco