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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 247 302
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 +6
Contract jobs citing VLAN 167 87 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.68% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.43% 4.43% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 59 61
10th Percentile £295 £179 £184
25th Percentile £406 £239 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £548 £538
90th Percentile £635 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.07 - -
90th Percentile £76.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +69.23%

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 2,596 1,965 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 15.44% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,580 1,203 1,989
10th Percentile £210 £196 £205
25th Percentile £358 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 137 357
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.76 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +112.04% -46.03% +148.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -2.60% +102.63%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 £478 +67.54% 21
North West +6 51 £481 +2.39% 9
South East -45 39 £498 -1.97% 29
Midlands -54 30 £413 -31.82% 16
South West -18 22 £485 +61.67% 15
West Midlands -51 16 £413 +184.48% 11
East Midlands -22 13 £275 -57.69% 5
Scotland - 10 £350 - 4
Yorkshire -60 7 £329 +35.57% 11
Wales -7 5 £293 -35.71% 3
East of England -44 5 £540 +188.00% 9
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 17 (10.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.39%) Skype for Business
3 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.20%) WordPress
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.75%) Azure
2 22 (13.17%) AWS
3 11 (6.59%) Entra ID
3 11 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
6 2 (1.20%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.20%) SaaS
7 1 (0.60%) Akamai
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.60%) OCI
7 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (58.08%) Firewall
2 59 (35.33%) WAN
3 57 (34.13%) DHCP
3 57 (34.13%) DNS
3 57 (34.13%) LAN
4 53 (31.74%) VPN
5 44 (26.35%) Network Security
6 42 (25.15%) BGP
6 42 (25.15%) OSPF
7 41 (24.55%) TCP/IP
8 40 (23.95%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (17.37%) Wireless
10 25 (14.97%) SD-WAN
11 16 (9.58%) VXLAN
12 15 (8.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (8.38%) MPLS
14 13 (7.78%) NX-OS
14 13 (7.78%) WLAN
15 11 (6.59%) SAN
16 10 (5.99%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.60%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 3 (1.80%) JIRA
2 2 (1.20%) Git
2 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.60%) MSI
General
1 44 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (4.79%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.99%) Legal
6 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Aviation
7 2 (1.20%) Finance
7 2 (1.20%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Advertising
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (42.51%) Network Engineer
2 25 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (13.17%) Architect
4 20 (11.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (7.78%) IT Engineer
6 12 (7.19%) IT Support
7 10 (5.99%) Analyst
7 10 (5.99%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Network Architect
8 9 (5.39%) Senior
8 9 (5.39%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (3.59%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Field Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.78%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.20%) RFC 2544
2 2 (1.20%) XMPP
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.34%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.18%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.79%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.40%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.40%) IoT
6 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.80%) 3D Printing
7 3 (1.80%) Replication
7 3 (1.80%) SCADA
8 2 (1.20%) CCTV
8 2 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.95%) Windows
2 19 (11.38%) Windows 10
2 19 (11.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.39%) Windows 7
4 6 (3.59%) Linux
5 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Rocky
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (17.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (13.77%) Network Monitoring
4 22 (13.17%) Network Segmentation
5 20 (11.98%) ITSM
6 18 (10.78%) Network Design
6 18 (10.78%) Project Delivery
7 15 (8.98%) Service Management
8 14 (8.38%) Migration
9 13 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (7.78%) Validation
10 12 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (7.19%) High Availability
10 12 (7.19%) ITIL
11 10 (5.99%) Runbook
12 9 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (5.39%) Disk Encryption
12 9 (5.39%) Incident Response
12 9 (5.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.38%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.19%) Python
3 10 (5.99%) VBScript
4 9 (5.39%) VB
5 5 (2.99%) Bash
6 4 (2.40%) SQL
7 2 (1.20%) Perl
8 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (47.31%) Security Cleared
2 66 (39.52%) Cisco Certification
3 65 (38.92%) SC Cleared
4 61 (36.53%) CCNP
5 47 (28.14%) CCNA
6 15 (8.98%) DV Cleared
6 15 (8.98%) Network+ Certification
7 8 (4.79%) Degree
8 7 (4.19%) CCIE
9 6 (3.59%) Server+ Certification
10 5 (2.99%) JNCIS
10 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.40%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 2 (1.20%) BC Cleared
13 2 (1.20%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.60%) CISSP
14 1 (0.60%) GCIA
14 1 (0.60%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) SLA
2 4 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.40%) NCSC
3 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.80%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) GxP
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (17.96%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.38%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (8.38%) vSphere
4 9 (5.39%) BitLocker
5 6 (3.59%) Firmware
5 6 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.40%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.20%) KVM
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.60%) iptables
8 1 (0.60%) NFS
8 1 (0.60%) RHEV
8 1 (0.60%) Samba
8 1 (0.60%) Snort
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (5.99%) SCCM
2 9 (5.39%) FortiGate
2 9 (5.39%) Nagios
2 9 (5.39%) vCenter Server
3 7 (4.19%) Ansible
3 7 (4.19%) VxRail
3 7 (4.19%) WSUS
4 5 (2.99%) Terraform
5 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.80%) Iperf
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.20%) Grafana
7 2 (1.20%) Nmap
7 2 (1.20%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.60%) Avamar
8 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Suricata
8 1 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (55.09%) Cisco
2 39 (23.35%) Microsoft
3 31 (18.56%) Palo Alto
4 28 (16.77%) VMware
5 18 (10.78%) Fortinet
6 17 (10.18%) Aruba
6 17 (10.18%) F5
6 17 (10.18%) ServiceNow
7 16 (9.58%) Juniper
8 15 (8.98%) CheckPoint
8 15 (8.98%) SolarWinds
9 12 (7.19%) Veeam
10 10 (5.99%) Ekahau
11 8 (4.79%) Citrix
12 7 (4.19%) Dell
13 5 (2.99%) Meraki
14 4 (2.40%) HP
14 4 (2.40%) Zerto
15 3 (1.80%) Qualys
15 3 (1.80%) Zscaler