VLAN Jobs in the North West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 260 245
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +33
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 18 29 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 2.52% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17 27 39
10th Percentile - £24,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £36,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +1.12%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £49,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -5.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,178 1,150 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.73% 11.67% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 461 875 676
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,250 £73,088
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the North West

VLAN
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for VLAN in the North West

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the North West

VLAN
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Merseyside +44 9 £33,250 -20.83%
Lancashire -60 7 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Manchester +49 2 £42,000 -6.67% 12
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
2 14 (77.78%) DHCP
3 12 (66.67%) Firewall
4 11 (61.11%) LAN
5 6 (33.33%) IPv4
5 6 (33.33%) VPN
6 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
6 5 (27.78%) WAN
7 4 (22.22%) VoIP
8 2 (11.11%) Internet
8 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (5.56%) Network Security
9 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
General
1 6 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) IT Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Junior
6 1 (5.56%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Network Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.56%) CentOS
6 1 (5.56%) Debian
6 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) Logistics
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Fault Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Server Management
7 1 (5.56%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CCNA
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
1 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Veeam
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) ConnectWise
4 2 (11.11%) Kaseya
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Ubiquiti