VLAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 292 270
Rank change year-on-year +30 -22 +97
Contract jobs citing VLAN 93 94 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.44% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 2.85% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 67 120
10th Percentile £178 £190 £197
25th Percentile £300 £244 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £539 £593
90th Percentile £548 £618 £700
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - £60.32
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year +4.55% +78.86% -30.90%

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 2,138 3,293 3,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.11% 15.54% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,857 2,206
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 368 287
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £75.27
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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
South East +38 29 £450 +73.75% 99
Midlands +26 24 £445 +18.67% 55
West Midlands +18 16 £365 +82.50% 32
North of England -10 15 £447 -13.04% 113
East of England +33 13 £225 -43.75% 40
North West +5 12 £465 +50.00% 53
South West +25 8 £300 -46.67% 70
East Midlands +5 8 £650 +73.33% 23
Scotland +2 3 £455 - 17
Yorkshire -10 2 £300 -42.81% 43
Wales +6 1 £455 - 15
North East +1 1 - - 18
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.60%) Confluence
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.30%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.66%) Azure
2 19 (20.43%) AWS
3 18 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.68%) GCP
5 5 (5.38%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.30%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.08%) Route 53
9 1 (1.08%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 49 (52.69%) Firewall
2 39 (41.94%) OSPF
2 39 (41.94%) VPN
3 38 (40.86%) BGP
4 27 (29.03%) DNS
5 24 (25.81%) DHCP
5 24 (25.81%) WAN
6 22 (23.66%) LAN
6 22 (23.66%) Network Security
7 20 (21.51%) TCP/IP
8 17 (18.28%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (17.20%) IPsec
9 16 (17.20%) SSL
10 11 (11.83%) EIGRP
10 11 (11.83%) MPLS
10 11 (11.83%) Wireless
11 8 (8.60%) Wireshark
12 7 (7.53%) VoIP
13 6 (6.45%) SAN
13 6 (6.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Maven
2 2 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.45%) Finance
3 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.23%) Legal
5 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Military
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (16.13%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (12.90%) IT Support
4 9 (9.68%) Designer
5 8 (8.60%) Network Designer
6 7 (7.53%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Check Point Expert
7 6 (6.45%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Lead
8 5 (5.38%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Architect
9 4 (4.30%) IT Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Network Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Senior
9 4 (4.30%) Solutions Designer
10 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.15%) LDAP
2 2 (2.15%) YAML
3 1 (1.08%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.30%) Replication
3 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.15%) PKI
4 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.08%) Life Science
5 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.63%) Windows
2 10 (10.75%) Windows 10
3 6 (6.45%) Check Point GAiA
3 6 (6.45%) Linux
3 6 (6.45%) Windows 7
4 5 (5.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.23%) CentOS
7 2 (2.15%) Debian
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.08%) SUSE
8 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (16.13%) High Availability
1 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (13.98%) Customer Service
2 13 (13.98%) SIEM
3 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
4 11 (11.83%) Network Design
4 11 (11.83%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (10.75%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (9.68%) Network Architecture
7 8 (8.60%) ITSM
8 7 (7.53%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.53%) TOGAF
9 6 (6.45%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (6.45%) Security Monitoring
9 6 (6.45%) Security Operations
9 6 (6.45%) Strategic Roadmap
10 5 (5.38%) Agile
10 5 (5.38%) Post-Production
10 5 (5.38%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.13%) Python
2 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.30%) VB
3 4 (4.30%) VBScript
4 3 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (32.26%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (25.81%) CCNP
3 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
4 18 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 13 (13.98%) Degree
6 12 (12.90%) CCSE
7 9 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (8.60%) CCIE
9 7 (7.53%) CCNA
10 6 (6.45%) CCSA
10 6 (6.45%) Check Point Certification
10 6 (6.45%) JNCIE
11 5 (5.38%) DBS Check
11 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared
11 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
12 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
13 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
13 3 (3.23%) CCENT
13 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.08%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.45%) Docker
4 6 (6.45%) vSphere
5 4 (4.30%) BitLocker
5 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.08%) Firmware
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) Ansible
2 8 (8.60%) SCCM
3 7 (7.53%) FortiGate
4 5 (5.38%) Tivoli
5 4 (4.30%) AppManager
6 3 (3.23%) Nagios
6 3 (3.23%) Terraform
7 2 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (2.15%) Nessus
7 2 (2.15%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.15%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.08%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.08%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (40.86%) Cisco
2 22 (23.66%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.43%) VMware
4 16 (17.20%) Fortinet
4 16 (17.20%) SolarWinds
5 14 (15.05%) Juniper
6 12 (12.90%) CheckPoint
7 11 (11.83%) Palo Alto
8 10 (10.75%) Veeam
9 8 (8.60%) F5
10 7 (7.53%) Google
11 6 (6.45%) Dell
11 6 (6.45%) Meraki
12 5 (5.38%) Citrix
13 4 (4.30%) AirMagnet
13 4 (4.30%) Aruba
13 4 (4.30%) Ekahau
13 4 (4.30%) Ivanti
13 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
14 3 (3.23%) Extreme Networks