VLAN Job Trends in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 320 341
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +154
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 402 336 641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.90% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.18% 6.64% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 297 279 578
10th Percentile £28,650 £29,000 £26,175
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,341 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £65,272 £67,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,619 5,061 11,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.46% 13.57% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 3,402 8,649
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% -6.86%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in England

VLAN
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
London +40 140 £62,500 +19.05% 44
North of England +2 86 £34,000 -20.00% 26
South East -51 59 £47,500 +26.67% 49
South West -56 52 £32,000 -20.00% 17
North West +7 45 £31,000 -27.06% 14
Midlands -73 33 £53,500 +33.75% 24
Yorkshire -27 27 £33,000 -28.42% 10
East of England -49 23 £40,000 - 11
West Midlands -66 22 £54,068 +27.22% 17
North East -20 14 £45,000 +16.13% 3
East Midlands -48 11 £32,500 -7.14% 7
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 87 (21.64%) SharePoint
2 83 (20.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) CMS
3 2 (0.50%) nginx
3 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.50%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (5.47%) MS Visio
2 16 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.50%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.25%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.25%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 209 (51.99%) Microsoft 365
2 202 (50.25%) Azure
3 91 (22.64%) Entra ID
4 71 (17.66%) AWS
5 36 (8.96%) IaaS
6 32 (7.96%) SaaS
7 31 (7.71%) PaaS
8 23 (5.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 23 (5.72%) Datadog
9 19 (4.73%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.99%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.99%) Route 53
11 7 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.74%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.49%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 268 (66.67%) Firewall
2 235 (58.46%) VPN
3 200 (49.75%) DNS
4 188 (46.77%) DHCP
5 160 (39.80%) WAN
6 132 (32.84%) Wi-Fi
7 126 (31.34%) LAN
8 111 (27.61%) TCP/IP
9 89 (22.14%) Wireless
10 76 (18.91%) Network Security
11 51 (12.69%) BGP
12 46 (11.44%) SD-WAN
13 44 (10.95%) OSPF
13 44 (10.95%) VoIP
14 43 (10.70%) Cisco Wireless
14 43 (10.70%) SAN
15 35 (8.71%) EIGRP
16 30 (7.46%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (5.97%) Cisco Nexus
18 23 (5.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.75%) Power BI
5 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (4.48%) Chocolatey
2 6 (1.49%) Git
3 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 152 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (14.43%) Finance
4 36 (8.96%) Banking
5 31 (7.71%) Retail
6 30 (7.46%) Telecoms
7 24 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (5.47%) Marketing
9 18 (4.48%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.24%) Legal
13 8 (1.99%) Law
14 6 (1.49%) Back Office
14 6 (1.49%) Electronics
14 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.24%) Advertising
16 4 (1.00%) Front Office
16 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (23.63%) IT Support
2 90 (22.39%) Network Engineer
3 85 (21.14%) IT Engineer
4 83 (20.65%) Support Engineer
5 78 (19.40%) Senior
6 59 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (13.68%) 2nd Line Support
8 49 (12.19%) IT Support Engineer
9 38 (9.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 33 (8.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 31 (7.71%) 3rd Line Support
12 30 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support
12 30 (7.46%) Senior IT Engineer
13 28 (6.97%) Support Technician
14 25 (6.22%) IT Technician
14 25 (6.22%) Senior Network Engineer
15 24 (5.97%) IT Support Technician
16 19 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (4.23%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
18 16 (3.98%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.24%) XMPP
2 6 (1.49%) RESTful
3 5 (1.24%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.00%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.75%) Web Services
6 2 (0.50%) LDAP
6 2 (0.50%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (0.50%) Node.js
6 2 (0.50%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.25%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.19%) Driving Licence
2 39 (9.70%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.22%) Video Conferencing
4 20 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.23%) Replication
7 13 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 13 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
8 9 (2.24%) CCTV
8 9 (2.24%) Digital Signage
8 9 (2.24%) FlexPod
9 8 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.74%) PKI
11 6 (1.49%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.24%) Derivative
13 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 230 (57.21%) Windows
2 138 (34.33%) Windows Server
3 60 (14.93%) Windows 10
4 42 (10.45%) Linux
5 31 (7.71%) Mac OS
6 17 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.73%) Apple iOS
8 9 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.99%) Android
10 6 (1.49%) Debian
11 5 (1.24%) Unix
12 4 (1.00%) VMS
13 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.50%) CentOS
14 2 (0.50%) Rocky
14 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.25%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.25%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (18.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (18.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 71 (17.66%) Cybersecurity
5 65 (16.17%) ITSM
6 63 (15.67%) ITIL
7 55 (13.68%) Migration
7 55 (13.68%) Service Delivery
8 52 (12.94%) Customer Service
9 43 (10.70%) Time Management
10 41 (10.20%) Network Monitoring
11 38 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.45%) Project Delivery
12 37 (9.20%) Analytical Thinking
13 36 (8.96%) High Availability
13 36 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
14 35 (8.71%) Change Management
15 32 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
16 31 (7.71%) Load Balancing
17 30 (7.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 60 (14.93%) Python
2 47 (11.69%) PowerShell
3 18 (4.48%) SQL
4 12 (2.99%) Bash
5 6 (1.49%) Go
5 6 (1.49%) Java
6 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (21.14%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (17.91%) CCNP
3 63 (15.67%) Degree
4 30 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (6.72%) Network+ Certification
7 26 (6.47%) Azure Certification
7 26 (6.47%) CCNA
8 25 (6.22%) CCIE
9 19 (4.73%) Security Cleared
10 16 (3.98%) SC Cleared
11 10 (2.49%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.00%) MCSA
13 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.50%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.25%) ACSP
15 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 25 (6.22%) SLA
3 24 (5.97%) GDPR
4 21 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (3.98%) PMO
6 14 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 13 (3.23%) QA
8 12 (2.99%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.99%) NIST
10 6 (1.49%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 210 (52.24%) Active Directory
2 67 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (13.93%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.48%) vSphere
5 16 (3.98%) ProxySG
6 12 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (2.74%) BitLocker
7 11 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.74%) Firmware
9 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.75%) Docker
11 1 (0.25%) iptables
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (21.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (9.45%) SCCM
3 24 (5.97%) Ansible
4 22 (5.47%) Jamf Pro
5 21 (5.22%) Terraform
6 17 (4.23%) FortiGate
7 11 (2.74%) Grafana
8 9 (2.24%) Backup Exec
8 9 (2.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.99%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.74%) Autotask
11 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.00%) Nagios
11 4 (1.00%) SolarWinds Orion
12 3 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
12 3 (0.75%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.50%) Podman
13 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 238 (59.20%) Microsoft
2 136 (33.83%) Cisco
3 101 (25.12%) VMware
4 54 (13.43%) SolarWinds
5 51 (12.69%) Meraki
6 49 (12.19%) Palo Alto
7 40 (9.95%) Fortinet
8 28 (6.97%) Apple
9 26 (6.47%) F5
9 26 (6.47%) Veeam
10 25 (6.22%) CheckPoint
11 21 (5.22%) Infoblox
11 21 (5.22%) ServiceNow
12 20 (4.98%) Zscaler
13 18 (4.48%) AppDynamics
13 18 (4.48%) Dynatrace
13 18 (4.48%) Tenable
14 17 (4.23%) Blue Coat
15 16 (3.98%) Motorola
15 16 (3.98%) Splunk