VLAN Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 115 100
Rank change year-on-year -6 -15 +48
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 16 14 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.64% 0.63% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.23% 5.20% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 23
10th Percentile £29,750 - £26,400
25th Percentile £34,438 £32,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - - £61,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 378 269 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.15% 12.20% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 185 93 210
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,725
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

VLAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the East Midlands

VLAN
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire - 7 £45,000 -
Northamptonshire - 5 £37,500 - 1
Derbyshire - 2 £31,500 -
Nottinghamshire +12 1 £27,500 -21.43% 1
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (37.50%) iPaaS
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) DHCP
2 10 (62.50%) DNS
3 9 (56.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (43.75%) SAN
5 3 (18.75%) Network Security
6 2 (12.50%) LAN
6 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
7 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (6.25%) IPv4
7 1 (6.25%) IPv6
7 1 (6.25%) MPLS
7 1 (6.25%) SSL
7 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
7 1 (6.25%) VoIP
7 1 (6.25%) VPLS
7 1 (6.25%) VXLAN
7 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Law
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) IT Support
2 7 (43.75%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 4 (25.00%) Senior
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Support Technician
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Technician
5 4 (25.00%) Support Technician
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Communications Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Clustering
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (31.25%) Driving Licence
3 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
5 1 (6.25%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Experience
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Information Governance
5 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.25%) Presales
5 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CCNA
1 1 (6.25%) CCNP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (25.00%) vSphere
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
3 6 (37.50%) Veeam
4 4 (25.00%) Meraki
4 4 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 2 (12.50%) Darktrace
5 2 (12.50%) VMware
6 1 (6.25%) Aruba
6 1 (6.25%) Draytek
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) Yealink