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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 270 314
Rank change year-on-year -10 +44 -44
Contract jobs citing VLAN 178 89 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.66% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.37% 4.36% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 56 64
10th Percentile £363 £178 £186
25th Percentile £420 £283 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £436 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.47% +16.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £542
90th Percentile £638 £538 £666
UK median daily rate £472 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.06% +6.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £12.43 - -
25th Percentile £16.98 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.38 - -
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 2,795 2,040 3,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.74% 15.11% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,642 1,245 1,832
10th Percentile £213 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -3.98% +3.05%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 127 365
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.67 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.72 £36.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -23.16% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.65 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -27 66 £500 +11.86% 23
North West -10 50 £525 +12.90% 13
South East -52 37 £550 +22.22% 49
Midlands -45 30 £413 +19.57% 18
South West -9 29 £495 +65.00% 12
Yorkshire -39 15 £329 +9.49% 8
West Midlands -56 15 £413 +23.13% 10
East Midlands -10 14 £275 -32.52% 8
Scotland -7 9 £388 -14.84% 7
East of England -34 6 £540 +140.00% 20
Wales -10 3 £175 -61.54% 2
North East - 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 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.25%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.03%) Azure
2 22 (12.36%) AWS
3 14 (7.87%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.93%) GitHub
6 6 (3.37%) IaaS
7 5 (2.81%) GCP
7 5 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.25%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.12%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 106 (59.55%) Firewall
2 69 (38.76%) DNS
3 60 (33.71%) DHCP
4 56 (31.46%) LAN
4 56 (31.46%) WAN
5 50 (28.09%) VPN
6 48 (26.97%) BGP
7 47 (26.40%) OSPF
8 37 (20.79%) TCP/IP
9 35 (19.66%) Network Security
9 35 (19.66%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (19.66%) Wireless
10 29 (16.29%) SAN
11 26 (14.61%) NX-OS
12 24 (13.48%) SD-WAN
13 23 (12.92%) Cisco Nexus
14 22 (12.36%) NAS
15 20 (11.24%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (11.24%) Structured Cabling
16 18 (10.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 8 (4.49%) JIRA
2 7 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) Git
4 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.56%) MSI
General
1 50 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.06%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.37%) Legal
7 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Aviation
9 2 (1.12%) Finance
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.56%) Games
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (39.33%) Network Engineer
2 42 (23.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (17.42%) Architect
4 18 (10.11%) IT Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Network Architect
6 15 (8.43%) IT Support
7 13 (7.30%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.62%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Senior
10 8 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Analyst
11 7 (3.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) IT Support Engineer
13 4 (2.25%) IT Support Analyst
13 4 (2.25%) Junior
13 4 (2.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.74%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.12%) RFC 2544
2 2 (1.12%) XMPP
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 66 (37.08%) Data Centre
2 18 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.37%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.81%) PKI
6 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.25%) Replication
7 4 (2.25%) SCADA
7 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.12%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.03%) Windows
2 22 (12.36%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.18%) Linux
3 11 (6.18%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.25%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.12%) Rocky
6 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (19.66%) Network Segmentation
2 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (15.17%) ITSM
4 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (11.24%) Project Delivery
6 19 (10.67%) Migration
7 18 (10.11%) Network Monitoring
8 17 (9.55%) Validation
9 16 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (8.99%) ITIL
10 15 (8.43%) CI/CD
10 15 (8.43%) High Availability
10 15 (8.43%) Network Design
11 13 (7.30%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.74%) DevOps
12 12 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (6.18%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (6.18%) Service Management
14 10 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.11%) Python
2 14 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.37%) Bash
4 5 (2.81%) ActionScript
4 5 (2.81%) VBScript
5 4 (2.25%) VB
6 2 (1.12%) SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (46.63%) Security Cleared
2 68 (38.20%) SC Cleared
3 67 (37.64%) Cisco Certification
4 64 (35.96%) CCNP
5 48 (26.97%) CCNA
6 17 (9.55%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (8.43%) DV Cleared
7 15 (8.43%) Server+ Certification
8 9 (5.06%) Degree
9 8 (4.49%) CCIE
10 4 (2.25%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.12%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.12%) JNCIS
12 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.56%) GCIA
13 1 (0.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.93%) NCSC
2 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.81%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (17.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.11%) vSphere
4 16 (8.99%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.06%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.93%) Firmware
8 6 (3.37%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.25%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.69%) NFS
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.12%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.56%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.56%) iptables
12 1 (0.56%) Samba
12 1 (0.56%) Snort
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (7.87%) Terraform
2 13 (7.30%) Ansible
3 11 (6.18%) vCenter Server
4 8 (4.49%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.49%) WSUS
5 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.37%) VxRail
6 5 (2.81%) SCCM
7 3 (1.69%) Grafana
7 3 (1.69%) Iperf
7 3 (1.69%) Nagios
8 2 (1.12%) Avamar
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.12%) Nmap
8 2 (1.12%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.12%) Suricata
Vendors
1 95 (53.37%) Cisco
2 42 (23.60%) VMware
3 39 (21.91%) Microsoft
4 31 (17.42%) Palo Alto
5 26 (14.61%) F5
6 22 (12.36%) ServiceNow
7 17 (9.55%) Fortinet
8 16 (8.99%) Aruba
8 16 (8.99%) Veeam
9 15 (8.43%) SolarWinds
10 14 (7.87%) Juniper
11 13 (7.30%) CheckPoint
12 10 (5.62%) Ekahau
13 9 (5.06%) Citrix
14 8 (4.49%) Meraki
15 6 (3.37%) Dell
15 6 (3.37%) HP
16 5 (2.81%) NetApp
17 4 (2.25%) BT
17 4 (2.25%) Commvault