VLAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 105 118
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing VLAN 8 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.31% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.59% 1.52% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - - £328
25th Percentile £143 £190 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £200 £520
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -61.54% +73.33%
75th Percentile £148 £220 £626
90th Percentile - £238 £700
England median daily rate £443 £431 £469
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +5.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 395 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.63% 20.29% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 232 218
10th Percentile £145 £201 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 6
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £19.65 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £35.95 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +20 7 £145 -27.50% 9
Solihull - 1 - -
VLAN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) SSL
2 5 (62.50%) BGP
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 5 (62.50%) OSPF
3 4 (50.00%) IPsec
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) HTTP
4 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
5 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ICT Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) Debian
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Network Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Sophos
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler