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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 258 309
Rank change year-on-year -28 +51 -41
Contract jobs citing VLAN 175 89 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.66% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.23% 4.36% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 56 65
10th Percentile £363 £178 £186
25th Percentile £420 £283 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £436 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.47% +16.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £488 £540
90th Percentile £652 £538 £666
UK median daily rate £470 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +10.59% +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 2,808 2,040 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.79% 15.08% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,241 1,843
10th Percentile £213 £200 £205
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £473 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% +3.16%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 125 369
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.52 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.69 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.74% -26.32% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.04% - +136.84%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -24 64 £515 +15.21% 25
North West -3 48 £575 +23.66% 14
South East -56 36 £525 +16.67% 48
Midlands -51 30 £413 +19.57% 17
South West -23 29 £495 +65.00% 13
Yorkshire -41 15 £329 +9.49% 9
West Midlands -57 15 £413 +23.13% 9
East Midlands -10 14 £275 -32.52% 8
Scotland -3 9 £388 -14.84% 3
East of England -33 6 £540 +140.00% 21
Wales -9 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 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.29%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.00%) Azure
2 23 (13.14%) AWS
3 14 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.00%) GitHub
6 6 (3.43%) GCP
6 6 (3.43%) IaaS
6 6 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.29%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.14%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.57%) OCI
9 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.57%) Route 53
9 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (58.86%) Firewall
2 70 (40.00%) DNS
3 60 (34.29%) DHCP
4 57 (32.57%) LAN
4 57 (32.57%) WAN
5 51 (29.14%) VPN
6 49 (28.00%) BGP
7 48 (27.43%) OSPF
8 38 (21.71%) TCP/IP
9 35 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (20.00%) Wireless
10 33 (18.86%) Network Security
11 29 (16.57%) SAN
12 26 (14.86%) NX-OS
13 25 (14.29%) SD-WAN
14 24 (13.71%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (12.57%) NAS
16 20 (11.43%) Cisco IOS
16 20 (11.43%) Structured Cabling
17 19 (10.86%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) JIRA
2 7 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.57%) MSI
General
1 51 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.43%) Legal
6 6 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Aviation
9 2 (1.14%) Finance
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (38.86%) Network Engineer
2 41 (23.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 32 (18.29%) Architect
4 18 (10.29%) IT Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Network Architect
6 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 15 (8.57%) IT Support
8 14 (8.00%) Technical Architect
9 9 (5.14%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Senior
10 8 (4.57%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Analyst
12 6 (3.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
13 4 (2.29%) IT Support Specialist
13 4 (2.29%) Junior IT Support
13 4 (2.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.14%) RFC 2544
2 2 (1.14%) XMPP
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 65 (37.14%) Data Centre
2 18 (10.29%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.43%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.86%) PKI
6 5 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.29%) Replication
7 4 (2.29%) SCADA
7 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.57%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.43%) Windows
2 22 (12.57%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.29%) Linux
3 11 (6.29%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.29%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.14%) Rocky
6 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 35 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (15.43%) ITSM
4 26 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (11.43%) Project Delivery
6 19 (10.86%) Migration
7 17 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (9.71%) ITIL
7 17 (9.71%) Network Monitoring
7 17 (9.71%) Validation
8 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.57%) Network Design
10 14 (8.00%) High Availability
11 13 (7.43%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.86%) DevOps
12 12 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (6.29%) Decision-Making
13 11 (6.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.86%) Python
2 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.43%) Bash
4 5 (2.86%) ActionScript
4 5 (2.86%) VBScript
5 4 (2.29%) VB
6 2 (1.14%) SQL
7 1 (0.57%) Bicep
7 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 66 (37.71%) Cisco Certification
3 64 (36.57%) SC Cleared
4 63 (36.00%) CCNP
5 46 (26.29%) CCNA
6 17 (9.71%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (9.14%) DV Cleared
8 15 (8.57%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (5.71%) Degree
10 9 (5.14%) CCIE
11 4 (2.29%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.14%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.14%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) NCSC
2 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.71%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) GxP
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (17.71%) Active Directory
2 30 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.14%) vSphere
4 14 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.14%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.00%) Firmware
7 7 (4.00%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.29%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.71%) NFS
9 3 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.14%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.57%) iptables
11 1 (0.57%) Samba
11 1 (0.57%) Snort
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Terraform
2 14 (8.00%) Ansible
3 9 (5.14%) vCenter Server
4 8 (4.57%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.57%) WSUS
5 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.86%) SCCM
7 4 (2.29%) VxRail
8 3 (1.71%) Grafana
8 3 (1.71%) Iperf
8 3 (1.71%) Nagios
9 2 (1.14%) Avamar
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.14%) Nmap
9 2 (1.14%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.14%) Suricata
Vendors
1 94 (53.71%) Cisco
2 43 (24.57%) VMware
3 40 (22.86%) Microsoft
4 30 (17.14%) Palo Alto
5 27 (15.43%) F5
6 22 (12.57%) ServiceNow
7 17 (9.71%) Fortinet
8 16 (9.14%) Aruba
8 16 (9.14%) SolarWinds
9 14 (8.00%) Juniper
9 14 (8.00%) Veeam
10 13 (7.43%) CheckPoint
11 10 (5.71%) Ekahau
12 9 (5.14%) Citrix
13 8 (4.57%) Meraki
14 6 (3.43%) HP
15 5 (2.86%) NetApp
16 4 (2.29%) BT
16 4 (2.29%) Commvault
16 4 (2.29%) Dell