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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 186 283
Rank change year-on-year -4 +97 +7
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 59 131 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 1.10% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.59% 8.35% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 53 102 32
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,550 £30,575
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £34,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,250 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -7.27% -1.20%
75th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £45,625
90th Percentile £53,190 £52,500 £60,875
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,388
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.63% -4.75%

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 895 1,568 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.77% 13.20% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 474 1,286 727
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.73% -3.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £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 15 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 15 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 53 £37,500 -5.66% 13
East Midlands -17 6 £33,750 -10.00% 11
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 (1.69%) Confluence
1 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (66.10%) Azure
2 19 (32.20%) Azure Sentinel
3 16 (27.12%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (25.42%) AWS
5 14 (23.73%) Google Workspace
6 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.78%) Route 53
8 2 (3.39%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.39%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.39%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (67.80%) Firewall
2 26 (44.07%) WAN
3 22 (37.29%) DNS
4 21 (35.59%) DHCP
4 21 (35.59%) SD-WAN
5 19 (32.20%) TCP/IP
6 17 (28.81%) BGP
6 17 (28.81%) Network Security
7 16 (27.12%) OSPF
8 14 (23.73%) WLAN
9 9 (15.25%) VPN
10 7 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (6.78%) HTTPS
11 4 (6.78%) LAN
12 3 (5.08%) SAN
13 2 (3.39%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (3.39%) MPLS
13 2 (3.39%) Wireless
14 1 (1.69%) NAS
14 1 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
1 1 (1.69%) Maven
1 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Retail
3 14 (23.73%) Automotive
4 7 (11.86%) Law
4 7 (11.86%) Legal
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Police
7 1 (1.69%) Billing
7 1 (1.69%) Finance
7 1 (1.69%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Network Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) IT Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior
6 8 (13.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) IT Support
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Support Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Lead Network Engineer
11 1 (1.69%) Security Architect
11 1 (1.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) LDAP
1 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Management Information System
1 14 (23.73%) Smartphone
2 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (59.32%) Windows Server
2 34 (57.63%) Windows
3 21 (35.59%) Windows 10
4 17 (28.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (28.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (27.12%) Linux
6 15 (25.42%) Ubuntu
7 14 (23.73%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.69%) CentOS
8 1 (1.69%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) Network Monitoring
2 15 (25.42%) Computer Science
3 14 (23.73%) Business Case
3 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (23.73%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (23.73%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.86%) Case Management
5 7 (11.86%) Service Management
6 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.17%) ITIL
6 6 (10.17%) ITSM
6 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
6 6 (10.17%) Supplier Management
7 5 (8.47%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (8.47%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (8.47%) Project Delivery
8 4 (6.78%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) PowerShell
2 14 (23.73%) SQL
3 1 (1.69%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (27.12%) Degree
3 15 (25.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (25.42%) Security Cleared
4 14 (23.73%) HNC
4 14 (23.73%) HND
4 14 (23.73%) MCSE
5 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
6 8 (13.56%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (10.17%) CCNA
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (6.78%) CCNP
9 4 (6.78%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (5.08%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
12 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
12 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (59.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.17%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.08%) vSphere
6 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.08%) SCCM
3 1 (1.69%) Autotask
3 1 (1.69%) Nessus
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (62.71%) Cisco
2 31 (52.54%) Microsoft
3 16 (27.12%) Fortinet
4 15 (25.42%) Google
4 15 (25.42%) SolarWinds
4 15 (25.42%) Ubiquiti
5 14 (23.73%) Apple
5 14 (23.73%) Dell
6 9 (15.25%) VMware
7 6 (10.17%) Avaya
7 6 (10.17%) Zscaler
8 5 (8.47%) Meraki
9 4 (6.78%) Acronis
9 4 (6.78%) Aruba
10 3 (5.08%) HP
10 3 (5.08%) WatchGuard
11 2 (3.39%) CheckPoint
11 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.39%) Rapid7
11 2 (3.39%) Sophos