VLAN Contracts in the South East

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 155 152
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 +72
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VLAN 33 27 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.57% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.54% 3.00% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 41
10th Percentile £375 £243 £193
25th Percentile £431 £256 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £288 £600
Median % change year-on-year +65.22% -52.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £537 £439 £700
90th Percentile £693 £664 £713
England median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 596 900 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.88% 18.84% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 474 624
10th Percentile £220 £251 £208
25th Percentile £358 £400 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.81% -0.11%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £580
90th Percentile £638 £663 £684
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 98 61
10th Percentile £14.20 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.94 £51.65 £21.22
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -2.64% +30.90%
75th Percentile £67.31 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.07 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VLAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the South East over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VLAN

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +18 17 £479 +14.33% 20
Berkshire +24 11 £450 -26.98% 13
Hampshire +17 8 £650 +10.22% 7
Buckinghamshire - 6 £508 - 6
Kent - 5 £375 - 1
Surrey +2 2 - - 5
West Sussex - 1 - -
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (15.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (63.64%) Firewall
2 17 (51.52%) VPN
3 15 (45.45%) BGP
3 15 (45.45%) OSPF
3 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
4 8 (24.24%) Network Security
4 8 (24.24%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (21.21%) SSL
6 6 (18.18%) DHCP
6 6 (18.18%) DNS
7 3 (9.09%) 802.11
7 3 (9.09%) Wireless
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (6.06%) IPsec
8 2 (6.06%) MPLS
8 2 (6.06%) Multicast
8 2 (6.06%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (6.06%) Wireshark
9 1 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (3.03%) NAS
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) IT Support
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Solutions Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Validation Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.03%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.03%) Life Science
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 7 (21.21%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
3 6 (18.18%) SIEM
4 5 (15.15%) Content Management
4 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
4 5 (15.15%) High Availability
4 5 (15.15%) Post-Production
4 5 (15.15%) Workflow
5 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) Data Collection
6 3 (9.09%) Network Architecture
6 3 (9.09%) Network Design
6 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.09%) Test Scripting
7 2 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (33.33%) CCNP
3 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
4 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) CCSA
5 6 (18.18%) CCSE
5 6 (18.18%) Check Point Certification
6 4 (12.12%) Degree
7 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.03%) CCIE
8 1 (3.03%) CCNA
8 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
1 5 (15.15%) vSphere
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Tivoli
3 4 (12.12%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.06%) Iperf
4 2 (6.06%) Nmap
5 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Cisco
2 12 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 9 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 8 (24.24%) CheckPoint
5 7 (21.21%) SolarWinds
5 7 (21.21%) VMware
6 6 (18.18%) Juniper
6 6 (18.18%) Veeam
7 5 (15.15%) Citrix
7 5 (15.15%) Google
8 4 (12.12%) Aruba
8 4 (12.12%) Meraki
9 3 (9.09%) AirMagnet
9 3 (9.09%) Ekahau
9 3 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (6.06%) F5
10 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
11 1 (3.03%) Dell
11 1 (3.03%) HP
11 1 (3.03%) IBM