VLAN Contracts in the South West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 101 149 143
Rank change year-on-year +48 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing VLAN 10 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.25% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.89% 1.52% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 22
10th Percentile £220 £163 -
25th Percentile £223 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £300 £437
Median % change year-on-year - -31.27% -7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £510
90th Percentile £639 - £638
England median daily rate £443 £431 £469
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Dorset - 4 £225 - 4
Gloucestershire +16 2 £300 -45.45% 8
Somerset +4 2 £600 +300.00% 2
Wiltshire +32 1 £630 +215.00% 2
Devon - 1 £413 - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) VPN
2 8 (80.00%) WAN
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
3 6 (60.00%) VoIP
4 4 (40.00%) BGP
4 4 (40.00%) DHCP
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
4 4 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (30.00%) SAN
6 2 (20.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (20.00%) Wireless
7 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (10.00%) NAS
7 1 (10.00%) Skype
7 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Development
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Server Management
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (30.00%) CCNP
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) CCIE
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIE
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIP
4 2 (20.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) AppManager
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco
4 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (30.00%) Ivanti
4 3 (30.00%) Juniper
4 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (20.00%) Google
5 2 (20.00%) Veeam
6 1 (10.00%) Aruba
6 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
6 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds