VLAN Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 261 317
Rank change year-on-year +23 +56 +30
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 95 40 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.48% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.89% 2.43% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 79 36 74
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £31,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -17.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 £46,389 £44,688
90th Percentile £51,750 £75,000 £54,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,204 1,648 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.10% 20.53% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 839 679 1,678
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,500 £43,231
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -22.51% -3.93%
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,550 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the North of England

VLAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the North of England

VLAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North West +57 58 £31,000 +3.33% 18
Yorkshire -29 25 £36,000 -21.91% 4
North East -35 12 £45,000 +35.34% 2
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 40 (42.11%) SharePoint
2 33 (34.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.16%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (71.58%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (53.68%) Azure
3 36 (37.89%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.53%) AWS
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (7.37%) IaaS
6 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.11%) PaaS
10 1 (1.05%) Datadog
10 1 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (78.95%) Firewall
2 64 (67.37%) VPN
3 54 (56.84%) DNS
4 50 (52.63%) DHCP
5 34 (35.79%) LAN
6 32 (33.68%) WAN
7 28 (29.47%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (27.37%) TCP/IP
9 20 (21.05%) Network Security
10 16 (16.84%) VoIP
11 13 (13.68%) Wireless
12 10 (10.53%) BGP
12 10 (10.53%) OSPF
13 9 (9.47%) SNMP
14 7 (7.37%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (7.37%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (7.37%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (7.37%) EIGRP
14 7 (7.37%) WAAS
14 7 (7.37%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) MySQL
2 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.16%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.16%) Law
6 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.16%) Retail
7 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (37.89%) IT Support
2 24 (25.26%) IT Engineer
2 24 (25.26%) Support Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) IT Support Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) Senior
4 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) IT Support Technician
5 14 (14.74%) IT Technician
5 14 (14.74%) Network Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) Support Technician
6 12 (12.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (8.42%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (6.32%) IT Manager
10 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior IT Support
10 5 (5.26%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.16%) gRPC
3 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.63%) Driving Licence
2 17 (17.89%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (11.58%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.32%) CCTV
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 3 (3.16%) Social Media
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Licensing
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (72.63%) Windows
2 51 (53.68%) Windows Server
3 26 (27.37%) Windows 10
4 11 (11.58%) Apple iOS
5 9 (9.47%) Linux
5 9 (9.47%) Mac OS
5 9 (9.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (8.42%) Android
7 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (5.26%) Debian
9 3 (3.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.32%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (33.68%) Customer Service
3 22 (23.16%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 18 (18.95%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 17 (17.89%) Time Management
8 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (14.74%) Project Delivery
10 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (10.53%) High Availability
12 10 (10.53%) ITIL
12 10 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
12 10 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (9.47%) Load Balancing
13 9 (9.47%) Process Improvement
14 8 (8.42%) Computer Science
15 7 (7.37%) Analytical Thinking
15 7 (7.37%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) Python
2 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.37%) SQL
4 6 (6.32%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (11.58%) CCNP
2 11 (11.58%) Degree
3 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.42%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (7.37%) CCIE
5 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.32%) CCNA
7 3 (3.16%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.16%) MCSA
8 1 (1.05%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.05%) ACSP
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.37%) PMO
2 7 (7.37%) SLA
3 5 (5.26%) GDPR
4 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 57 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 22 (23.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (17.89%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.37%) ProxySG
5 4 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.21%) vSphere
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.58%) FortiGate
3 7 (7.37%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (3.16%) Nagios
4 3 (3.16%) SCCM
5 2 (2.11%) cPanel
5 2 (2.11%) Plesk
5 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.05%) Autotask
6 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (25.26%) VMware
3 23 (24.21%) Cisco
4 11 (11.58%) ServiceNow
5 10 (10.53%) CheckPoint
5 10 (10.53%) SonicWALL
6 9 (9.47%) Apple
6 9 (9.47%) Veeam
7 8 (8.42%) SolarWinds
8 7 (7.37%) Blue Coat
8 7 (7.37%) F5
8 7 (7.37%) Infoblox
8 7 (7.37%) Motorola
9 6 (6.32%) Palo Alto
9 6 (6.32%) Sophos
10 5 (5.26%) Meraki
10 5 (5.26%) WatchGuard
11 4 (4.21%) Datto
11 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
12 3 (3.16%) Ubiquiti