VLAN Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring VLAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VLAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 193 282
Rank change year-on-year +14 +89 +4
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 65 134 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 1.15% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.79% 8.38% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 59 105 34
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -8.24% -
75th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £48,438
90th Percentile £52,860 £52,500 £56,375
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.19% -7.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 834 1,599 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.01% 13.70% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,299 719
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the Midlands

VLAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for VLAN in the Midlands

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the Midlands

VLAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +39 60 £42,500 +6.92% 11
East Midlands -8 5 £35,000 -6.67% 7
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (67.69%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (29.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 17 (26.15%) AWS
5 15 (23.08%) Google Workspace
6 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.15%) Route 53
8 2 (3.08%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (70.77%) Firewall
2 25 (38.46%) WAN
3 23 (35.38%) DHCP
3 23 (35.38%) DNS
4 20 (30.77%) SD-WAN
4 20 (30.77%) TCP/IP
5 18 (27.69%) BGP
5 18 (27.69%) Network Security
6 17 (26.15%) OSPF
7 15 (23.08%) WLAN
8 11 (16.92%) VPN
9 9 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (6.15%) HTTPS
10 4 (6.15%) LAN
11 3 (4.62%) VRRP
12 2 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (3.08%) MPLS
12 2 (3.08%) SAN
12 2 (3.08%) Wireless
13 1 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Git
1 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
1 1 (1.54%) Maven
1 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Retail
3 15 (23.08%) Automotive
4 7 (10.77%) Law
4 7 (10.77%) Legal
5 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Police
7 1 (1.54%) Finance
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Network Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) IT Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (18.46%) Senior
6 8 (12.31%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) IT Support
9 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (4.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Professional Services Engineer
11 1 (1.54%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.54%) Field Engineer
11 1 (1.54%) Field Support Engineer
11 1 (1.54%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) LDAP
1 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Management Information System
1 15 (23.08%) Smartphone
2 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 36 (55.38%) Windows
3 22 (33.85%) Windows 10
4 17 (26.15%) Linux
4 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (24.62%) Ubuntu
6 15 (23.08%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.54%) CentOS
7 1 (1.54%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
1 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 17 (26.15%) Network Monitoring
2 15 (23.08%) Business Case
2 15 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
3 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.77%) Case Management
5 7 (10.77%) ITIL
5 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
5 7 (10.77%) Service Management
6 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (9.23%) ITSM
6 6 (9.23%) Service Delivery
6 6 (9.23%) Supplier Management
7 5 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 15 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (1.54%) Python
3 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (32.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (29.23%) Degree
3 17 (26.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (23.08%) HNC
4 15 (23.08%) HND
4 15 (23.08%) MCSE
4 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (9.23%) Azure Certification
8 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
8 5 (7.69%) CCNA
9 4 (6.15%) CCNP
9 4 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (6.15%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.54%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.85%) Hyper-V
2 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.15%) vSphere
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.54%) Docker
5 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.54%) Nessus
2 1 (1.54%) Puppet
2 1 (1.54%) SCCM
2 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (55.38%) Cisco
1 36 (55.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (27.69%) Ubiquiti
3 17 (26.15%) Fortinet
3 17 (26.15%) Google
4 15 (23.08%) Apple
4 15 (23.08%) Dell
4 15 (23.08%) SolarWinds
5 13 (20.00%) VMware
6 8 (12.31%) WatchGuard
7 7 (10.77%) Acronis
8 6 (9.23%) Avaya
8 6 (9.23%) Meraki
8 6 (9.23%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.62%) Aruba
9 3 (4.62%) Sophos
10 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.08%) HP
10 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
10 2 (3.08%) TP-LINK