VLAN Job Trends in Preston

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring VLAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 1.69% - 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% - 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £32,500
75th Percentile £48,750 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +46.15% -2.99%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 24 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 16.95% 15.09% 17.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 22
10th Percentile £24,988 £35,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £28,531 £39,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,375 £50,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.95% -22.31% +116.67%
75th Percentile £42,531 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £46,263 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £25,087 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -52.22% -4.55% +37.50%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in Preston

VLAN
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing VLAN

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware