VLAN Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South West > Somerset

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing VLAN 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.29% 1.32% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 12.50% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £575 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £150
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +300.00% -64.71%
75th Percentile - £625 £163
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £485 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +7.78% +5.88% -5.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 16 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 6.18% 10.53% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 15
10th Percentile £458 £363 £250
25th Percentile £475 £447 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £295
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +77.97% -23.87%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £516
90th Percentile £593 £618 £630
South West median daily rate £500 £548 £535
% change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile £36.55 - £12.50
25th Percentile £37.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.34%
75th Percentile £43.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Somerset

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Taunton - 1 £450 -
VLAN
South West

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware