Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 6 months to 22 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London
6 months to
22 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 438 456 483
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 +7
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 139 228 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.34% 3.90% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 128 211 281
10th Percentile £36,000 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.43% -4.12% -

VLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,201 5,848 7,855
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London 10.16% 13.12% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 4,794 6,448
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,913 £29,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,138 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +0.25% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VLAN in London.

Salary trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 22 April 2021.

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 22 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Central London +36 24 £54,500 -9.17% 8
West London +41 13 £37,500 -31.82% 1
East London +18 6 £40,000 -
South London +14 4 £45,000 +12.50%
VLAN
England

For the 6 months to 22 April 2021, IT jobs citing VLAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region with a requirement for VLAN.

1 77 (55.40%) Firewall
2 65 (46.76%) Windows
3 64 (46.04%) Active Directory
4 63 (45.32%) TCP/IP
5 59 (42.45%) DNS
6 55 (39.57%) DHCP
7 54 (38.85%) VMware
7 54 (38.85%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (35.97%) Azure
9 49 (35.25%) Cisco
10 47 (33.81%) Microsoft
11 44 (31.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (28.78%) Linux
13 36 (25.90%) Cisco Certification
14 35 (25.18%) VMware Infrastructure
15 34 (24.46%) Windows Server
16 31 (22.30%) PowerShell
16 31 (22.30%) WAN
17 30 (21.58%) LAN
18 27 (19.42%) VPN
19 25 (17.99%) Windows 10
20 24 (17.27%) VoIP
21 23 (16.55%) SCCM
22 22 (15.83%) OSPF
22 22 (15.83%) BGP
23 21 (15.11%) ITIL
24 20 (14.39%) CCNA
24 20 (14.39%) AWS
25 19 (13.67%) Finance
26 18 (12.95%) Citrix

VLAN
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (12.23%) MS Exchange
2 9 (6.47%) IIS
3 7 (5.04%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.32%) Apache
4 6 (4.32%) Confluence
4 6 (4.32%) nginx
4 6 (4.32%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.88%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (2.88%) CloudStack
5 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.85%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (35.97%) Azure
3 20 (14.39%) AWS
4 14 (10.07%) Azure Active Directory
5 9 (6.47%) Mimecast
6 7 (5.04%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.32%) GCP
8 5 (3.60%) IaaS
8 5 (3.60%) Serverless
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.88%) Datadog
9 4 (2.88%) npm
9 4 (2.88%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.44%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 77 (55.40%) Firewall
2 63 (45.32%) TCP/IP
3 59 (42.45%) DNS
4 55 (39.57%) DHCP
5 31 (22.30%) WAN
6 30 (21.58%) LAN
7 27 (19.42%) VPN
8 24 (17.27%) VoIP
9 22 (15.83%) BGP
9 22 (15.83%) OSPF
10 17 (12.23%) Network Security
11 13 (9.35%) Internet
12 11 (7.91%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (7.91%) Wireless
13 9 (6.47%) HSRP
13 9 (6.47%) HTTP
13 9 (6.47%) MPLS
13 9 (6.47%) SAN
13 9 (6.47%) Spanning Tree
13 9 (6.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.32%) MariaDB
2 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.60%) Redis
4 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.88%) MySQL
5 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.72%) Big Data
6 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.32%) JIRA
2 6 (4.32%) Maven
3 5 (3.60%) GitLab
4 4 (2.88%) Git (software)
4 4 (2.88%) Gradle
4 4 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.88%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (13.67%) Finance
2 7 (5.04%) German Language
3 6 (4.32%) Banking
4 4 (2.88%) Dutch Language
4 4 (2.88%) French Language
4 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.16%) Legal
5 3 (2.16%) Retail
6 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.44%) Italian Language
6 2 (1.44%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (27.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (25.90%) Network Engineer
3 18 (12.95%) Support Engineer
4 12 (8.63%) IT Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) 3rd Line Support
5 11 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Analyst
6 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (6.47%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) IT Manager
9 7 (5.04%) IT Support
9 7 (5.04%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Administrator
10 6 (4.32%) Infrastructure Support Technician
10 6 (4.32%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 6 (4.32%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) 802.1X
1 6 (4.32%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.88%) LDAP
3 4 (2.88%) Node.js
3 4 (2.88%) React
3 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.16%) .NET
4 3 (2.16%) WSH
4 3 (2.16%) YAML
5 2 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.44%) LAMP
5 2 (1.44%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Flex
6 1 (0.72%) libvirt
6 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.72%) SOAP
6 1 (0.72%) WCF
6 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.04%) Clustering
2 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.04%) Replication
3 6 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) IPTV
4 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.88%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.88%) User Experience
5 3 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.44%) Mobile Computing
6 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Cyberthreat
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.72%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.72%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 65 (46.76%) Windows
2 40 (28.78%) Linux
3 34 (24.46%) Windows Server
4 25 (17.99%) Windows 10
5 18 (12.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (7.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (7.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (6.47%) CentOS
7 9 (6.47%) Unix
7 9 (6.47%) Windows 7
7 9 (6.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (5.04%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.60%) Debian
10 4 (2.88%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.88%) Mac OS X
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (2.16%) SUSE
12 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (15.11%) ITIL
3 18 (12.95%) DevOps
4 14 (10.07%) Project Delivery
5 13 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (8.63%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (7.91%) Migration
7 11 (7.91%) Network Management
8 8 (5.76%) Capacity Management
8 8 (5.76%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (5.76%) Change Management
8 8 (5.76%) Network Architecture
9 7 (5.04%) Business Continuity
9 7 (5.04%) Kalman Filter
9 7 (5.04%) Load Balancing
9 7 (5.04%) Mentoring
9 7 (5.04%) Server Management
10 6 (4.32%) IT Strategy
10 6 (4.32%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.30%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.35%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) Bash Shell
4 7 (5.04%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.32%) SQL
6 4 (2.88%) VBA
7 3 (2.16%) VBScript
8 2 (1.44%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) C
9 1 (0.72%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (14.39%) CCNA
3 17 (12.23%) CCNP
4 8 (5.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.60%) CCIE
6 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) CCSA
7 1 (0.72%) CCSE
7 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.72%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.72%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.72%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.72%) MCITP
7 1 (0.72%) MCSA
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) RHCA
7 1 (0.72%) RHCE
7 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (46.04%) Active Directory
2 35 (25.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.35%) Hyper-V
3 13 (9.35%) vSphere
4 10 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (6.47%) Docker
6 8 (5.76%) XenDesktop
7 7 (5.04%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (2.16%) DFS Replication
9 3 (2.16%) Firmware
9 3 (2.16%) NFS
10 2 (1.44%) iptables
10 2 (1.44%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.72%) Ceph
11 1 (0.72%) GlusterFS
11 1 (0.72%) KVM
11 1 (0.72%) Lustre
11 1 (0.72%) Samba
11 1 (0.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (16.55%) SCCM
2 13 (9.35%) Ansible
3 10 (7.19%) Puppet
4 7 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.04%) Terraform
5 6 (4.32%) Opscode Chef
5 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.88%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.88%) SmoothWall
7 4 (2.88%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.88%) vMotion
8 3 (2.16%) Backup Exec
9 2 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.44%) Grafana
9 2 (1.44%) Istio
9 2 (1.44%) Knative
9 2 (1.44%) Nessus
10 1 (0.72%) NetMRI
10 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (38.85%) VMware
2 49 (35.25%) Cisco
3 47 (33.81%) Microsoft
4 18 (12.95%) Citrix
5 16 (11.51%) Palo Alto
6 12 (8.63%) CheckPoint
7 10 (7.19%) Dell
7 10 (7.19%) Fortinet
7 10 (7.19%) Mellanox
7 10 (7.19%) Red Hat
8 9 (6.47%) HP
9 8 (5.76%) Juniper
10 5 (3.60%) Aruba
10 5 (3.60%) Infoblox
11 4 (2.88%) Brocade
11 4 (2.88%) EMC
11 4 (2.88%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (2.88%) Meraki
11 4 (2.88%) Oracle
11 4 (2.88%) SonicWALL