VLAN Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 83 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +49
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 11 17 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.66% 1.41% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.24% 7.66% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -12.37% +2.11%
75th Percentile £53,125 £50,313 £50,125
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £53,750
East of England median annual salary £38,000 £43,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -12.64% +16.00% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 340 222 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 20.30% 18.42% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 97 124 108
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,825 £29,640
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £55,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +8.29% +20.59%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,625 £67,625
90th Percentile £73,500 £79,625 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.09% +14.12%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

VLAN
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in Hertfordshire

VLAN
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Stevenage -5 4 £46,500 +10.71% 2
St Albans - 2 £28,000 -
Watford -5 1 £55,000 +18.92%
VLAN
East of England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Google Workspace
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 5 (45.45%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 5 (45.45%) WAN
3 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) SSL
4 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (18.18%) DHCP
5 2 (18.18%) IPsec
5 2 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (18.18%) Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) DMZ
6 1 (9.09%) FTP
6 1 (9.09%) HTTP
6 1 (9.09%) Internet
6 1 (9.09%) SMTP
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Professional Services Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Driving Licence
2 2 (18.18%) CCTV
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Signage
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Management
3 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (18.18%) Presales
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Purple Team
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Firmware
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) Nagios
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Blue Coat
3 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
3 3 (27.27%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 2 (18.18%) Darktrace
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) LogRhythm
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) VMware