VLAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 364 509
Rank change year-on-year +57 +145 -90
Contract jobs citing VLAN 40 103 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% 3.56% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 63 82
10th Percentile £313 £317 £325
25th Percentile £344 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +3.63% +13.53%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £558
90th Percentile £605 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.39% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £33.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.53% +115.91%
75th Percentile - £34.50 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +69.23% +0.78% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

VLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

VLAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VLAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VLAN.

VLAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VLAN over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VLAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VLAN.

VLAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) AWS
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) GCP
3 7 (17.50%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (17.50%) IaaS
3 7 (17.50%) Nutanix
3 7 (17.50%) PaaS
3 7 (17.50%) Rubrik
3 7 (17.50%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (57.50%) Firewall
2 20 (50.00%) DNS
3 19 (47.50%) DHCP
4 18 (45.00%) TCP/IP
5 11 (27.50%) VPN
6 9 (22.50%) NAS
6 9 (22.50%) SAN
7 7 (17.50%) Kerberos
7 7 (17.50%) Network Security
8 6 (15.00%) OSPF
9 5 (12.50%) BGP
10 3 (7.50%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (7.50%) Wireless
10 3 (7.50%) WLAN
11 2 (5.00%) Broadband
11 2 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (5.00%) HSRP
11 2 (5.00%) LAN
11 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.50%) CouchDB
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.50%) MySQL
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.50%) Power BI
1 1 (2.50%) Redis
1 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Git
1 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 7 (17.50%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.50%) Darcs
3 1 (2.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.50%) Mercurial
3 1 (2.50%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Retail
3 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) German Language
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Data Protection Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) NetBackup Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Network Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Implementation Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Implementation Project Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) LDAP
2 2 (5.00%) ADSI
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Replication
2 7 (17.50%) Clustering
3 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) CBDC
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.50%) IPTV
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (40.00%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Linux
3 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (17.50%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (17.50%) Solaris
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.00%) VMS
7 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.50%) Debian
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (22.50%) Migration
2 8 (20.00%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (17.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (17.50%) Data Security
3 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps
3 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (17.50%) High Availability
3 7 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (17.50%) Security Hardening
3 7 (17.50%) Service Catalogue
3 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (17.50%) Storage Management
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (22.50%) CCNA
3 7 (17.50%) CCNP
3 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (15.00%) Degree
5 4 (10.00%) APMP
5 4 (10.00%) CEH
5 4 (10.00%) CISM
5 4 (10.00%) CISSP
5 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (10.00%) PMP
6 2 (5.00%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.50%) CCIE
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.50%) SANS
7 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) GDPR
1 7 (17.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (17.50%) Docker
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
3 7 (17.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.50%) Netcool
3 7 (17.50%) Puppet
3 7 (17.50%) Tivoli
3 7 (17.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (15.00%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Icinga
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
5 1 (2.50%) Nagios
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) SCCM
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Cisco
2 10 (25.00%) VMware
3 9 (22.50%) HP
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (20.00%) Oracle
4 8 (20.00%) Qualys
4 8 (20.00%) Splunk
5 7 (17.50%) CyberArk
5 7 (17.50%) Dell
5 7 (17.50%) EMC
5 7 (17.50%) IBM
5 7 (17.50%) Isilon
5 7 (17.50%) Serena
5 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
6 6 (15.00%) Veritas
7 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
7 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.00%) Aruba
8 2 (5.00%) F5
8 2 (5.00%) Google