VLAN Job Trends in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 308 384
Rank change year-on-year +24 +76 +67
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 131 89 122
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.65% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.96% 6.71% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 100 64 114
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £74,250 £65,829 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,881 1,327 3,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.27% 10.49% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 994 958 2,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,775 £32,825
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,387 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in London

VLAN
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in London

VLAN
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Central London -16 7 £70,000 +27.27% 6
South London +13 5 £43,750 -12.50%
North London - 1 £42,500 - 1
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) nginx
3 2 (1.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (42.75%) Azure
3 29 (22.14%) SaaS
4 25 (19.08%) Datadog
5 22 (16.79%) IaaS
5 22 (16.79%) PaaS
6 18 (13.74%) AWS
7 9 (6.87%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.11%) Google Workspace
9 5 (3.82%) Route 53
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.29%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.29%) GCP
11 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.53%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 94 (71.76%) Firewall
2 74 (56.49%) DNS
3 72 (54.96%) VPN
4 67 (51.15%) DHCP
5 53 (40.46%) Wi-Fi
6 42 (32.06%) SAN
7 28 (21.37%) Network Security
7 28 (21.37%) Wireless
8 26 (19.85%) TCP/IP
9 21 (16.03%) Cisco Wireless
10 19 (14.50%) WAN
11 17 (12.98%) BGP
12 16 (12.21%) SD-WAN
13 14 (10.69%) LAN
13 14 (10.69%) OSPF
14 10 (7.63%) HSRP
14 10 (7.63%) Multicast
15 9 (6.87%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (6.11%) BIG-IP
16 8 (6.11%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.53%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Chocolatey
2 3 (2.29%) Git
General
1 61 (46.56%) Finance
2 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.85%) Banking
4 22 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Retail
6 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Front Office
6 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Back Office
7 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.29%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.76%) Police
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (35.11%) Senior
2 36 (27.48%) IT Engineer
3 28 (21.37%) Network Engineer
3 28 (21.37%) Senior IT Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (12.21%) IT Support
7 12 (9.16%) Support Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Network Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) Cisco Architect
13 6 (4.58%) Cisco Network Architect
13 6 (4.58%) Network Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) RESTful
2 2 (1.53%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (1.53%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) LDAP
3 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Cyber Threat
2 15 (11.45%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (8.40%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (5.34%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.82%) Digital Signage
6 5 (3.82%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.82%) PKI
7 4 (3.05%) Derivative
7 4 (3.05%) Equities
7 4 (3.05%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.29%) Blog
8 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Smart Home
10 1 (0.76%) CCTV
10 1 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 65 (49.62%) Windows
2 9 (6.87%) Linux
3 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.58%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.53%) CentOS
5 2 (1.53%) Rocky
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.88%) Migration
2 40 (30.53%) ITSM
3 37 (28.24%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.56%) Change Management
6 21 (16.03%) Security Patching
7 20 (15.27%) Analytical Thinking
7 20 (15.27%) High Availability
8 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (13.74%) ITIL
10 15 (11.45%) Network Monitoring
11 14 (10.69%) Mentoring
12 13 (9.92%) Network Design
13 11 (8.40%) Project Delivery
13 11 (8.40%) RBAC
13 11 (8.40%) Zero Trust
14 10 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (7.63%) Load Balancing
14 10 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (6.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.92%) Python
2 7 (5.34%) SQL
3 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.29%) Go
4 3 (2.29%) Java
5 2 (1.53%) Bash
5 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (20.61%) CCNP
3 14 (10.69%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.63%) Degree
5 9 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.34%) CCIE
7 5 (3.82%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (2.29%) CCNA
9 1 (0.76%) CWNA
9 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.27%) SLA
2 8 (6.11%) NIST
2 8 (6.11%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.58%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) QA
5 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 57 (43.51%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.53%) Firmware
5 2 (1.53%) vSphere
6 1 (0.76%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 26 (19.85%) SCCM
2 25 (19.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.11%) Ansible
4 5 (3.82%) Autotask
4 5 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (3.82%) Terraform
5 3 (2.29%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.53%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.53%) Nagios
6 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.53%) VxRail
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (56.49%) Microsoft
2 46 (35.11%) VMware
3 41 (31.30%) Cisco
4 27 (20.61%) Meraki
5 22 (16.79%) Palo Alto
6 20 (15.27%) AppDynamics
6 20 (15.27%) Dynatrace
6 20 (15.27%) Tenable
7 11 (8.40%) F5
8 10 (7.63%) Fortinet
9 9 (6.87%) Aruba
9 9 (6.87%) Zscaler
10 8 (6.11%) Google
10 8 (6.11%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.58%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (3.82%) Arista
12 5 (3.82%) Datto
12 5 (3.82%) ForeScout
12 5 (3.82%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.82%) SonicWALL