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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 261 309
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 -37
Contract jobs citing VLAN 181 87 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.66% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.60% 4.30% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 56 66
10th Percentile £309 £178 £187
25th Percentile £419 £283 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £598 £536 £539
90th Percentile £630 £606 £665
UK median daily rate £470 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +9.30% +7.50% -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 2,743 2,023 3,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.87% 15.29% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,615 1,251 1,860
10th Percentile £231 £200 £203
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £483
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -2.95% +1.74%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £498
% change year-on-year +3.09% -2.51% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 124 357
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.44 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.79 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -33.07% +156.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.88 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +10.00% +113.73%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -14 71 £481 +1.32% 26
North West +11 57 £500 +5.26% 19
Midlands -52 33 £413 -23.96% 25
South East -67 33 £500 +11.11% 59
South West -2 29 £495 +65.00% 18
West Midlands -49 17 £413 +23.13% 15
East Midlands -20 15 £275 -54.55% 10
Yorkshire -44 13 £329 +9.49% 5
Scotland -4 9 £388 - 4
East of England -32 5 £540 +140.00% 16
Wales -11 3 £175 -61.54% 4
North East - 1 - - 2
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 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.21%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.55%) Azure
2 18 (9.94%) AWS
3 13 (7.18%) Entra ID
3 13 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.76%) GitHub
6 4 (2.21%) IaaS
7 3 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.66%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.10%) GCP
8 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.10%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.55%) OCI
9 1 (0.55%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 106 (58.56%) Firewall
2 64 (35.36%) DNS
3 61 (33.70%) DHCP
4 55 (30.39%) WAN
5 53 (29.28%) LAN
6 48 (26.52%) VPN
7 46 (25.41%) BGP
7 46 (25.41%) OSPF
8 40 (22.10%) Network Security
9 37 (20.44%) Wireless
10 35 (19.34%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (18.78%) TCP/IP
12 26 (14.36%) NX-OS
12 26 (14.36%) SAN
13 24 (13.26%) SD-WAN
14 21 (11.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 20 (11.05%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (11.05%) NAS
15 20 (11.05%) Structured Cabling
16 19 (10.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 6 (3.31%) JIRA
2 5 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) Git
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.55%) MSI
General
1 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.97%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.31%) Legal
7 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Aviation
8 2 (1.10%) Finance
8 2 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (40.88%) Network Engineer
2 36 (19.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (15.47%) Architect
4 22 (12.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 17 (9.39%) IT Engineer
6 16 (8.84%) IT Support
7 14 (7.73%) Network Architect
8 12 (6.63%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.97%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Analyst
11 8 (4.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Senior
11 8 (4.42%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
14 5 (2.76%) IT Analyst
14 5 (2.76%) IT Support Analyst
14 5 (2.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.18%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.10%) RFC 2544
2 2 (1.10%) XMPP
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 67 (37.02%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.94%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.31%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.76%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.21%) PKI
6 4 (2.21%) Replication
6 4 (2.21%) SCADA
6 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) CCTV
9 1 (0.55%) CMDB
9 1 (0.55%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.55%) Windows
2 18 (9.94%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.63%) Windows 10
4 9 (4.97%) Linux
5 4 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.21%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.10%) Unix
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.55%) Rocky
7 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (19.34%) Network Segmentation
2 35 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (14.36%) ITSM
5 23 (12.71%) Network Monitoring
6 22 (12.15%) Project Delivery
7 19 (10.50%) Migration
8 16 (8.84%) ITIL
8 16 (8.84%) Validation
9 15 (8.29%) Network Design
10 14 (7.73%) High Availability
11 13 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (7.18%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.63%) CI/CD
12 12 (6.63%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (6.08%) Service Management
14 10 (5.52%) Change Control
14 10 (5.52%) DevOps
14 10 (5.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.29%) Python
2 12 (6.63%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.31%) Bash
4 5 (2.76%) VBScript
5 4 (2.21%) VB
6 3 (1.66%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.10%) SQL
8 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (46.41%) Security Cleared
2 71 (39.23%) SC Cleared
3 70 (38.67%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (37.02%) CCNP
5 52 (28.73%) CCNA
6 17 (9.39%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (8.29%) Server+ Certification
8 13 (7.18%) DV Cleared
9 10 (5.52%) Degree
10 7 (3.87%) CCIE
11 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.21%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.66%) JNCIS
14 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.10%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.55%) CISSP
15 1 (0.55%) GCIA
15 1 (0.55%) GCIH
15 1 (0.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) QA
1 5 (2.76%) SLA
2 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.21%) NCSC
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
3 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.55%) GRC
4 1 (0.55%) GxP
4 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 26 (14.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.39%) vSphere
4 14 (7.73%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.87%) Firmware
6 7 (3.87%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.21%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.66%) NFS
9 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.10%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.55%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.55%) iptables
10 1 (0.55%) Samba
10 1 (0.55%) Snort
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (5.52%) Ansible
1 10 (5.52%) Terraform
2 9 (4.97%) vCenter Server
3 8 (4.42%) FortiGate
3 8 (4.42%) WSUS
4 6 (3.31%) VxRail
5 5 (2.76%) SCCM
6 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.21%) Nagios
7 3 (1.66%) Iperf
8 2 (1.10%) Avamar
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.10%) Grafana
8 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.10%) Nmap
8 2 (1.10%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.10%) Suricata
9 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (56.35%) Cisco
2 38 (20.99%) Microsoft
3 35 (19.34%) VMware
4 32 (17.68%) Palo Alto
5 23 (12.71%) F5
6 22 (12.15%) ServiceNow
7 17 (9.39%) Fortinet
8 16 (8.84%) Aruba
9 15 (8.29%) Juniper
9 15 (8.29%) Veeam
10 14 (7.73%) CheckPoint
11 13 (7.18%) SolarWinds
12 10 (5.52%) Ekahau
13 9 (4.97%) Citrix
14 8 (4.42%) Meraki
15 6 (3.31%) Dell
15 6 (3.31%) HP
16 4 (2.21%) BT
16 4 (2.21%) Commvault
16 4 (2.21%) NetApp