VLAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 270 306 372
Rank change year-on-year +36 +66 +149
Contract jobs citing VLAN 34 39 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.25% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.26% 2.42% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 67
10th Percentile £296 £313 £321
25th Percentile £378 £341 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +1.25% +6.38%
75th Percentile £572 £572 £592
90th Percentile £607 £575 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £474
% change year-on-year - -5.01% +5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +69.23% +0.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

VLAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VLAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing VLAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.88%) Datadog
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) Akamai
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) npm
5 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.94%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 17 (50.00%) BGP
2 17 (50.00%) OSPF
3 15 (44.12%) Firewall
4 14 (41.18%) VPN
5 13 (38.24%) Network Security
6 12 (35.29%) DNS
6 12 (35.29%) TACACS
7 8 (23.53%) DHCP
8 7 (20.59%) IPsec
9 6 (17.65%) SSL
9 6 (17.65%) WAN
9 6 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (17.65%) Wireless
10 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (11.76%) LAN
11 3 (8.82%) Internet
11 3 (8.82%) MPLS
12 2 (5.88%) DOCSIS
12 2 (5.88%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.94%) Looker
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Military
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Support Specialist
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Support Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) SharePoint Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) PKI
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) SCADA
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Solaris
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (20.59%) Migration
3 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 4 (11.76%) Agile
4 4 (11.76%) High Availability
5 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.82%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (5.88%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) IT Strategy
6 2 (5.88%) Low Latency
6 2 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (5.88%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) C
2 1 (2.94%) C#
2 1 (2.94%) C++
2 1 (2.94%) Go
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) Lisp
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) CCNA
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CCNP
4 1 (2.94%) CCSA
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.88%) NCSC
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.94%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) Firmware
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Icinga
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Nagios
2 1 (2.94%) Netcool
2 1 (2.94%) Observium
2 1 (2.94%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Palo Alto
2 19 (55.88%) Cisco
3 8 (23.53%) CheckPoint
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) F5
5 5 (14.71%) Meraki
6 4 (11.76%) VMware
7 3 (8.82%) Arista
8 2 (5.88%) Forcepoint
8 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
8 2 (5.88%) Splunk
8 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.94%) Citrix
9 1 (2.94%) EMC
9 1 (2.94%) IBM
9 1 (2.94%) Oracle
9 1 (2.94%) Qualys
9 1 (2.94%) Sophos
9 1 (2.94%) Sybase