VLAN Job Trends in Birmingham

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 109 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 -24 +57
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 5 17 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.29% 0.92% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.01% 6.94% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 10
10th Percentile £59,000 £40,100 £37,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £107,500 £46,500 £76,250
90th Percentile - £46,700 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% -2.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

VLAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 166 245 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.57% 13.29% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 100 103 210
10th Percentile - £36,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £66,750 £66,775 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VLAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VLAN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VLAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in Birmingham

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Control
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
1 3 (60.00%) Meraki
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
1 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft