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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 309 372
Rank change year-on-year +42 +63 +138
Contract jobs citing VLAN 34 39 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.29% 2.49% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 64
10th Percentile £291 £313 £318
25th Percentile £338 £341 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +2.04%
75th Percentile £572 £572 £605
90th Percentile £604 £575 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £473
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
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 1,034 1,565 2,949
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.54% 10.33% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 1,011 1,962
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.81% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 77 95
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £23.30
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% +21.73%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £72.63
90th Percentile £73.88 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -23.25% +112.54% -31.56%

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 5 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.88%) Datadog
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
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%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) npm
5 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
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 14 (41.18%) Firewall
4 13 (38.24%) Network Security
4 13 (38.24%) VPN
5 12 (35.29%) DNS
5 12 (35.29%) TACACS
6 8 (23.53%) DHCP
7 7 (20.59%) IPsec
8 6 (17.65%) SSL
8 6 (17.65%) WAN
8 6 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (17.65%) Wireless
9 4 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (11.76%) LAN
10 3 (8.82%) Internet
10 3 (8.82%) MPLS
11 2 (5.88%) DOCSIS
11 2 (5.88%) VRRP
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 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 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
3 3 (8.82%) Windows 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%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation 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%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Support Manager
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%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
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 10
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Solaris
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%) Asset Management
5 3 (8.82%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (5.88%) Change Management
6 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) IT Strategy
6 2 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.88%) Release Management
6 2 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (5.88%) Scrum
6 2 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (5.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) VBScript
3 1 (2.94%) C
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) C++
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) Lisp
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
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 5 (14.71%) 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%) SCCM
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%) 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 5 (14.71%) F5
4 5 (14.71%) Meraki
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
5 4 (11.76%) VMware
6 3 (8.82%) Arista
7 2 (5.88%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.88%) Splunk
7 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.94%) Aruba
8 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.94%) EMC
8 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.94%) Isilon
8 1 (2.94%) Qualys
8 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.94%) Veeam