VLAN Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VLAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 261 296
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 -22
Contract jobs citing VLAN 182 97 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.19% 4.52% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 62 68
10th Percentile £339 £178 £190
25th Percentile £418 £306 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £447 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% +19.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £524 £538
90th Percentile £668 £636 £616
UK median daily rate £472 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.06% +6.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.96 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.22% +4.55% +78.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,938 2,148 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.94% 14.68% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 1,312 1,865
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £368 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% -4.08% +3.16%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 129 368
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.83 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.22 £36.65 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% -22.85% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.00% +2.27% +53.04%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VLAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VLAN

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VLAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VLAN

VLAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
North of England -34 60 £508 +13.53% 25
North West -10 43 £575 +23.66% 11
South East -44 40 £500 +11.11% 50
South West -11 31 £495 +65.00% 16
Midlands -53 31 £413 -7.30% 14
Yorkshire -36 16 £363 +20.73% 11
West Midlands -64 16 £413 +13.01% 9
East Midlands -7 14 £275 -57.69% 5
East of England -30 10 £551 +138.38% 17
Scotland -1 9 £388 -14.84% 9
Wales -12 3 £175 -61.54% 3
North East -32 1 - - 3
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.20%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.10%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.82%) Azure
2 28 (15.38%) AWS
3 17 (9.34%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.40%) GCP
6 7 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.85%) GitHub
7 6 (3.30%) IaaS
7 6 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.20%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.10%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.55%) OCI
11 1 (0.55%) Route 53
11 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (60.44%) Firewall
2 77 (42.31%) DNS
3 65 (35.71%) DHCP
4 60 (32.97%) LAN
5 59 (32.42%) VPN
6 58 (31.87%) WAN
7 55 (30.22%) BGP
8 54 (29.67%) OSPF
9 50 (27.47%) TCP/IP
10 39 (21.43%) Wireless
11 38 (20.88%) Network Security
12 35 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (17.58%) SAN
14 26 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (14.29%) NX-OS
15 25 (13.74%) SD-WAN
16 23 (12.64%) NAS
17 18 (9.89%) Cisco IOS
17 18 (9.89%) MPLS
17 18 (9.89%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 8 (4.40%) JIRA
2 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.65%) Git
3 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.55%) MSI
General
1 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.30%) Legal
7 6 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.65%) Finance
8 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.65%) Police
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Aviation
9 2 (1.10%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (40.11%) Network Engineer
2 41 (22.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (18.68%) Architect
4 19 (10.44%) Network Architect
5 18 (9.89%) IT Engineer
6 15 (8.24%) Senior
7 14 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 14 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 13 (7.14%) IT Support
9 9 (4.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) IT Support Specialist
13 4 (2.20%) Security Architect
13 4 (2.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.10%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.10%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.10%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 65 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.24%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.40%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.85%) PKI
6 7 (3.85%) Replication
7 6 (3.30%) SCADA
8 5 (2.75%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.20%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.65%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.65%) Life Science
11 2 (1.10%) Animation
11 2 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.18%) Windows
2 27 (14.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.14%) Linux
4 11 (6.04%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.20%) Rocky
6 4 (2.20%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.65%) CentOS
8 2 (1.10%) Unix
8 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (18.68%) Network Segmentation
4 28 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (14.84%) ITSM
6 20 (10.99%) ITIL
6 20 (10.99%) Project Delivery
7 19 (10.44%) Network Monitoring
7 19 (10.44%) Validation
8 18 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (9.34%) Network Design
10 16 (8.79%) CI/CD
11 15 (8.24%) High Availability
11 15 (8.24%) Mentoring
11 15 (8.24%) Migration
12 13 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (7.14%) Service Management
13 12 (6.59%) DevOps
13 12 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.99%) Python
2 19 (10.44%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.30%) Bash
4 5 (2.75%) ActionScript
4 5 (2.75%) VBScript
5 4 (2.20%) VB
6 2 (1.10%) SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Bicep
7 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (46.70%) Security Cleared
2 68 (37.36%) Cisco Certification
3 64 (35.16%) CCNP
3 64 (35.16%) SC Cleared
4 45 (24.73%) CCNA
5 21 (11.54%) DV Cleared
6 17 (9.34%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (8.24%) Server+ Certification
8 12 (6.59%) Degree
9 10 (5.49%) CCIE
10 4 (2.20%) ISTQB
10 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.10%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.10%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) NCSC
2 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.75%) QA
3 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.65%) GxP
3 3 (1.65%) NIST
3 3 (1.65%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.10%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.10%) SLA
5 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 38 (20.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (17.03%) Active Directory
3 17 (9.34%) vSphere
4 12 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (6.04%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.49%) VMware NSX
7 8 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.85%) Firmware
9 4 (2.20%) BitLocker
9 4 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.65%) NFS
11 2 (1.10%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.55%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.55%) iptables
12 1 (0.55%) Samba
12 1 (0.55%) Snort
12 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (10.99%) Ansible
2 18 (9.89%) Terraform
3 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.40%) WSUS
5 7 (3.85%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.30%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.75%) SCCM
8 4 (2.20%) Nagios
9 3 (1.65%) Grafana
9 3 (1.65%) Iperf
9 3 (1.65%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.10%) Avamar
10 2 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.10%) Nmap
10 2 (1.10%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.10%) Suricata
10 2 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 97 (53.30%) Cisco
2 51 (28.02%) VMware
3 38 (20.88%) Microsoft
4 29 (15.93%) Palo Alto
5 27 (14.84%) F5
6 22 (12.09%) ServiceNow
7 18 (9.89%) Aruba
7 18 (9.89%) SolarWinds
8 16 (8.79%) Fortinet
9 15 (8.24%) CheckPoint
9 15 (8.24%) Juniper
9 15 (8.24%) Veeam
10 11 (6.04%) Ekahau
11 9 (4.95%) Citrix
12 8 (4.40%) Meraki
13 7 (3.85%) NetApp
14 6 (3.30%) HP
15 4 (2.20%) BT
15 4 (2.20%) Commvault
15 4 (2.20%) Google