VLAN Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 191 200
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 71 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 0.78% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.49% 5.19% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 57 40 72
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £38,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% +5.48% -14.12%
75th Percentile £58,450 £49,063 £47,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £52,588 £61,800
England median annual salary £49,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +30.67% -11.76% -

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 748 867 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.15% 14.96% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 591 525 799
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,631 £38,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.19% -10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,050
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,292 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -15.42% -2.25%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VLAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 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
West Midlands -19 36 £55,000 +19.57% 22
East Midlands -2 35 £32,500 -11.56% 3
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (12.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (52.11%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) Entra ID
4 10 (14.08%) AWS
4 10 (14.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (56.34%) Firewall
2 35 (49.30%) DNS
3 33 (46.48%) DHCP
3 33 (46.48%) TCP/IP
4 31 (43.66%) VPN
5 27 (38.03%) WAN
6 16 (22.54%) SD-WAN
7 14 (19.72%) Network Security
7 14 (19.72%) Wireless
8 10 (14.08%) LAN
9 8 (11.27%) VoIP
10 7 (9.86%) OSPF
11 5 (7.04%) BGP
12 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (4.23%) Internet
13 3 (4.23%) SAN
14 2 (2.82%) Modbus
14 2 (2.82%) NAS
14 2 (2.82%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (2.82%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (2.82%) KNIME
1 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Git
General
1 33 (46.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Finance
8 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) IT Support
2 23 (32.39%) Network Engineer
3 17 (23.94%) IT Technician
4 15 (21.13%) IT Support Technician
4 15 (21.13%) Support Technician
5 11 (15.49%) IT Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (9.86%) Senior
7 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) IT Manager
10 4 (5.63%) Senior IT Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) 1st Line Support Technician
11 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) Middleware
1 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.41%) .NET
2 1 (1.41%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Driving Licence
2 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.63%) SCADA
5 3 (4.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) CCTV
6 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) iPad
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (56.34%) Windows
2 31 (43.66%) Windows Server
3 10 (14.08%) Linux
4 9 (12.68%) Windows 10
5 6 (8.45%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.63%) Android
7 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (40.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (32.39%) ITSM
4 17 (23.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (23.94%) Mentoring
5 15 (21.13%) Service Delivery
6 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (18.31%) Network Monitoring
8 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (16.90%) Project Delivery
9 10 (14.08%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (14.08%) ITIL
9 10 (14.08%) Service Management
10 9 (12.68%) High Availability
10 9 (12.68%) Risk Management
10 9 (12.68%) Server Patching
11 8 (11.27%) Business Continuity
12 7 (9.86%) Change Management
12 7 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (9.86%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) SQL
2 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.90%) VBA
3 8 (11.27%) Python
4 4 (5.63%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) CCNA
1 13 (18.31%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (14.08%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.63%) CCNP
7 3 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.82%) CISSP
8 2 (2.82%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) SLA
2 10 (14.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (11.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 7 (9.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (8.45%) GDPR
6 4 (5.63%) QA
7 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.41%) ISO 14001
8 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (53.52%) Active Directory
2 29 (40.85%) Hyper-V
3 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (9.86%) Firmware
5 5 (7.04%) Docker
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.41%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.63%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.23%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.23%) Grafana
4 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) SCCM
5 2 (2.82%) Terraform
6 1 (1.41%) Nagios
6 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (60.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (40.85%) Cisco
3 14 (19.72%) VMware
4 13 (18.31%) Fortinet
5 8 (11.27%) Avaya
5 8 (11.27%) SolarWinds
5 8 (11.27%) Zscaler
6 6 (8.45%) ServiceNow
7 5 (7.04%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.04%) Veeam
8 4 (5.63%) Meraki
8 4 (5.63%) SonicWALL
8 4 (5.63%) Sophos
8 4 (5.63%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (5.63%) WatchGuard
9 3 (4.23%) Apple
9 3 (4.23%) ESET
9 3 (4.23%) Logitech
9 3 (4.23%) Yealink
10 2 (2.82%) SAP