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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 271 287
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing VLAN 188 97 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.48% 4.49% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 64 64
10th Percentile £313 £204 £251
25th Percentile £407 £371 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.41% -1.39%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £563
90th Percentile £660 £689 £666
UK median daily rate £475 £442 £475
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.89% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -

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 2,902 2,159 2,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.61% 14.19% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,632 1,310 1,627
10th Percentile £225 £202 £205
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £607
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 135 281
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.90 £18.27
Median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% -18.00% -4.42%
75th Percentile £65.06 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.34% - -5.79%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -35 58 £500 +9.65% 35
South East -50 49 £475 +5.56% 49
North West -18 38 £550 +17.02% 23
South West -9 30 £495 +130.23% 20
Midlands -49 28 £413 -7.30% 13
Yorkshire -23 19 £475 +58.20% 11
East Midlands -6 14 £275 -57.69% 4
West Midlands -63 13 £413 +13.01% 9
East of England -24 12 £600 +65.52% 14
Scotland -5 11 £388 -11.93% 1
Wales -8 2 £170 -62.64% 4
North East -42 1 - - 1
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 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.66%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.66%) Azure
2 28 (14.89%) AWS
3 25 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (12.23%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.79%) GCP
6 8 (4.26%) GitHub
7 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.19%) IaaS
8 6 (3.19%) Nutanix
8 6 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.13%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.06%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.06%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 113 (60.11%) Firewall
2 83 (44.15%) DNS
3 68 (36.17%) DHCP
4 57 (30.32%) BGP
4 57 (30.32%) LAN
4 57 (30.32%) OSPF
4 57 (30.32%) VPN
5 54 (28.72%) WAN
6 52 (27.66%) TCP/IP
7 44 (23.40%) Wireless
8 36 (19.15%) SAN
9 33 (17.55%) Network Security
10 31 (16.49%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (14.89%) Cisco Nexus
12 26 (13.83%) SD-WAN
13 25 (13.30%) NAS
13 25 (13.30%) NX-OS
14 22 (11.70%) Cisco IOS
15 21 (11.17%) WLAN
16 18 (9.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) GitLab
2 3 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.53%) MSI
General
1 55 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.91%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (6.91%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.79%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.66%) Legal
7 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.66%) Police
8 4 (2.13%) Finance
8 4 (2.13%) Games
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (39.89%) Network Engineer
2 41 (21.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (15.96%) Architect
4 21 (11.17%) Senior
5 19 (10.11%) IT Engineer
5 19 (10.11%) Network Architect
6 12 (6.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) IT Support
8 10 (5.32%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.79%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Cisco Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Automation Specialist
11 7 (3.72%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.32%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.60%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.06%) HTML
3 2 (1.06%) HTML5
3 2 (1.06%) ModSecurity
3 2 (1.06%) ODBC
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.53%) REST
4 1 (0.53%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.53%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 66 (35.11%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.45%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.85%) Operational Technology
3 11 (5.85%) Replication
4 10 (5.32%) PKI
5 9 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.79%) SCADA
6 7 (3.72%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.19%) Life Science
8 5 (2.66%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.13%) Animation
9 4 (2.13%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.60%) CMDB
10 3 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 54 (28.72%) Windows
2 38 (20.21%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.51%) Linux
4 9 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.72%) Rocky
7 6 (3.19%) CentOS
8 2 (1.06%) Unix
8 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) VMS
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (17.02%) Network Segmentation
4 23 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (11.70%) ITIL
6 21 (11.17%) ITSM
6 21 (11.17%) Validation
7 20 (10.64%) Project Delivery
8 18 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (9.57%) Network Monitoring
9 17 (9.04%) High Availability
9 17 (9.04%) Migration
9 17 (9.04%) Network Design
10 16 (8.51%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.91%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (6.38%) DevOps
14 11 (5.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.11%) PowerShell
2 18 (9.57%) Python
3 5 (2.66%) ActionScript
4 4 (2.13%) Bash
4 4 (2.13%) SQL
5 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (40.96%) Security Cleared
2 67 (35.64%) Cisco Certification
3 60 (31.91%) CCNP
4 58 (30.85%) SC Cleared
5 44 (23.40%) CCNA
6 17 (9.04%) DV Cleared
6 17 (9.04%) Network+ Certification
7 15 (7.98%) Server+ Certification
8 13 (6.91%) Degree
9 7 (3.72%) CCIE
10 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.53%) GCIA
13 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.72%) NCSC
2 5 (2.66%) GxP
2 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.66%) QA
3 4 (2.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (2.13%) NIST
3 4 (2.13%) NIST 800
3 4 (2.13%) SLA
4 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 48 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (19.15%) Active Directory
3 17 (9.04%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.98%) vSphere
5 11 (5.85%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (5.32%) VMware NSX
7 9 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.72%) Firmware
9 5 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.60%) NFS
11 2 (1.06%) KVM
11 2 (1.06%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.53%) iptables
12 1 (0.53%) Samba
12 1 (0.53%) Snort
12 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (11.70%) Ansible
2 19 (10.11%) Terraform
3 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.26%) WSUS
5 6 (3.19%) FortiGate
5 6 (3.19%) Nagios
5 6 (3.19%) NetBackup
5 6 (3.19%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.60%) Avamar
6 3 (1.60%) Grafana
6 3 (1.60%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.06%) SCCM
7 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.06%) Suricata
8 1 (0.53%) Iperf
8 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.53%) systemd
8 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (50.53%) Cisco
2 61 (32.45%) VMware
3 43 (22.87%) Microsoft
4 26 (13.83%) F5
4 26 (13.83%) Palo Alto
5 20 (10.64%) ServiceNow
6 17 (9.04%) Aruba
6 17 (9.04%) SolarWinds
6 17 (9.04%) Veeam
7 16 (8.51%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.45%) Juniper
9 12 (6.38%) Fortinet
10 11 (5.85%) Meraki
11 10 (5.32%) Ekahau
11 10 (5.32%) NetApp
12 8 (4.26%) Citrix
13 7 (3.72%) Rockwell
14 5 (2.66%) Google
14 5 (2.66%) HP
14 5 (2.66%) Zerto