VLAN Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 42 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing VLAN 5 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.16% 2.31% 3.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.04% 10.98% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 14
10th Percentile - £221 £191
25th Percentile - £223 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £290 £555
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% -47.75% +100.00%
75th Percentile - £300 £633
90th Percentile - £329 £675
South East median daily rate £463 £463 £494
% change year-on-year - -6.33% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £76.53

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 82 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 16.44% 21.03% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 56 90
10th Percentile - £253 £207
25th Percentile £204 £316 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £500 £360
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +38.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £550
90th Percentile £516 £569 £601
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile £22.86 - £58.50
25th Percentile £30.74 £31.25 £62.63
Median hourly rate £43.88 £32.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +35.02% -57.53% +70.07%
75th Percentile £57.02 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £64.90 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.80 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.65% -7.60% +38.89%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Surrey

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VLAN

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Guildford - 2 £200 -
Redhill - 2 - -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Advertising
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (40.00%) Web Filtering
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Imperva
3 1 (20.00%) Okta
3 1 (20.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler