VLAN Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 +39
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 4 3 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.62% 0.47% 2.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.00% 4.11% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile - £56,250 £23,750
25th Percentile £21,000 £61,875 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,678 £72,500 £71,800
Median % change year-on-year -56.31% +0.97% +139.33%
75th Percentile £49,407 £81,875 £78,500
90th Percentile £62,513 £86,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £32,500 £56,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year -42.22% +50.00% +7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 73 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.70% 11.48% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 119
10th Percentile £16,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £18,500 £37,188 £32,296
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £53,195 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +8.56% -2.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,500 £68,000
South West median annual salary £33,500 £51,058 £49,000
% change year-on-year -34.39% +4.20% +3.16%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

VLAN
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in Gloucestershire

VLAN
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cheltenham +8 1 £67,500 -25.00% 1
VLAN
South West

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto