VLAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 299 292
Rank change year-on-year +49 -7 +65
Contract jobs citing VLAN 85 86 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.42% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.19% 2.63% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 100
10th Percentile £178 £184 £265
25th Percentile £253 £210 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £689
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.13
25th Percentile - - £20.94
Median hourly rate - - £29.00
75th Percentile - - £46.22
90th Percentile - - £67.31
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £31.63
% change year-on-year - +73.91% -1.94%

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 2,028 3,273 3,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.68% 16.13% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,855 2,191
10th Percentile £200 £203 £206
25th Percentile £300 £348 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £628 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £515
% change year-on-year -0.51% -4.85% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 359 308
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.28 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.66 £45.88 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +154.89% -16.28%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £59.85
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.66 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -23.25% +116.22% -34.70%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

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 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 19 May 2025. 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
South East +42 35 £508 +100.91% 80
Midlands +29 19 £605 +142.00% 28
West Midlands +12 12 £145 -27.50% 15
North of England -4 12 £401 -22.08% 90
East of England +29 11 £188 -53.13% 45
South West +38 7 £450 +5.88% 29
East Midlands +16 7 £650 +100.00% 10
North West +6 6 £475 +53.23% 39
Yorkshire +2 6 £235 -55.24% 31
Wales +2 1 £455 - 3
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.88%) Confluence
4 4 (4.71%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (23.53%) Azure
3 16 (18.82%) AWS
4 10 (11.76%) GCP
5 6 (7.06%) Google Workspace
5 6 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.18%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 39 (45.88%) Firewall
1 39 (45.88%) VPN
2 30 (35.29%) BGP
2 30 (35.29%) DNS
2 30 (35.29%) OSPF
3 26 (30.59%) TCP/IP
4 22 (25.88%) DHCP
5 20 (23.53%) WAN
5 20 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (21.18%) LAN
6 18 (21.18%) Network Security
7 12 (14.12%) IPsec
7 12 (14.12%) MPLS
7 12 (14.12%) SSL
8 10 (11.76%) Wireless
9 9 (10.59%) SAN
10 8 (9.41%) VoIP
11 7 (8.24%) SD-WAN
12 5 (5.88%) HSRP
12 5 (5.88%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.18%) MySQL
1 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Robot Framework
3 2 (2.35%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Maven
3 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 34 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (12.94%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Finance
7 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) IT Support
2 11 (12.94%) Architect
3 8 (9.41%) Network Architect
4 7 (8.24%) Senior
4 7 (8.24%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Check Point Expert
5 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Designer
6 5 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Desktop Support
6 5 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (4.71%) Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.53%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Support Technician
8 3 (3.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.35%) LDAP
2 2 (2.35%) YAML
3 1 (1.18%) Flash
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.53%) PKI
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.47%) Windows
2 14 (16.47%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.06%) Check Point GAiA
3 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 6 (7.06%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.53%) CentOS
4 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.35%) Debian
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 12 (14.12%) SIEM
4 11 (12.94%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (11.76%) High Availability
6 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
6 8 (9.41%) TOGAF
7 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (7.06%) ITSM
8 6 (7.06%) Network Design
8 6 (7.06%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (7.06%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (7.06%) Security Operations
9 5 (5.88%) Agile
9 5 (5.88%) Content Management
9 5 (5.88%) Network Architecture
9 5 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (5.88%) Service Management
9 5 (5.88%) Test Automation
9 5 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.47%) Python
2 8 (9.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.71%) VB
3 4 (4.71%) VBScript
4 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.18%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.06%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) CCNP
4 12 (14.12%) CCSE
5 9 (10.59%) Degree
6 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (7.06%) CCNA
7 6 (7.06%) CCSA
7 6 (7.06%) Check Point Certification
7 6 (7.06%) DBS Check
7 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
9 4 (4.71%) CCIE
9 4 (4.71%) JNCIE
9 4 (4.71%) MCSE
10 3 (3.53%) CCENT
10 3 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.53%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (21.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.06%) vSphere
4 5 (5.88%) Docker
4 5 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.71%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.18%) Firmware
7 1 (1.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Ansible
2 10 (11.76%) SCCM
3 6 (7.06%) AppManager
3 6 (7.06%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.35%) Nagios
5 2 (2.35%) Nessus
5 2 (2.35%) Proxmox
5 2 (2.35%) Puppet
5 2 (2.35%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (38.82%) Cisco
2 28 (32.94%) Microsoft
3 18 (21.18%) VMware
4 15 (17.65%) Palo Alto
5 13 (15.29%) CheckPoint
6 12 (14.12%) Juniper
7 11 (12.94%) Fortinet
7 11 (12.94%) SolarWinds
8 8 (9.41%) Google
9 6 (7.06%) F5
9 6 (7.06%) Ivanti
10 4 (4.71%) AirMagnet
10 4 (4.71%) Aruba
10 4 (4.71%) Ekahau
10 4 (4.71%) Meraki
10 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.71%) Veeam
11 3 (3.53%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.53%) Sophos
12 2 (2.35%) Salesforce