VLAN Jobs in the South West

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 241 235
Rank change year-on-year +121 -6 +38
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 55 50 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.57% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.09% 4.01% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 38
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £46,813 £47,500 £43,438
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.76% -5.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 455 1,246 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.00% 13.67% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 318 934 578
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +7.78% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the South West

VLAN
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VLAN in the South West

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the South West

VLAN
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Somerset +20 19 £40,000 +6.67% 3
Dorset - 9 - - 3
Devon +17 8 £51,729 +59.17% 8
Wiltshire - 6 £33,500 - 4
Gloucestershire +70 5 £56,250 +7.14% 6
Bristol +54 4 £47,500 +26.67% 8
Cornwall +12 4 £31,500 -6.67% 1
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 11 (20.00%) IIS
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 35 (63.64%) Azure
2 32 (58.18%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.82%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.36%) AWS
5 5 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (80.00%) Firewall
2 29 (52.73%) VPN
3 27 (49.09%) DHCP
3 27 (49.09%) DNS
4 20 (36.36%) VoIP
4 20 (36.36%) WAN
4 20 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (34.55%) LAN
6 11 (20.00%) SAN
7 10 (18.18%) ADSL
8 9 (16.36%) MPLS
9 8 (14.55%) IPsec
10 6 (10.91%) Network Security
10 6 (10.91%) Wireless
11 5 (9.09%) BGP
11 5 (9.09%) OSPF
11 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
12 4 (7.27%) DMZ
12 4 (7.27%) Wireshark
13 3 (5.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Legal
2 9 (16.36%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.82%) Local Government
5 1 (1.82%) Police
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) IT Support
2 16 (29.09%) 2nd Line Support
2 16 (29.09%) Analyst
2 16 (29.09%) IT Analyst
3 15 (27.27%) IT Support Analyst
3 15 (27.27%) Support Analyst
4 11 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 9 (16.36%) Coordinator
6 9 (16.36%) Help Desk Coordinator
7 7 (12.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 7 (12.73%) IT Engineer
7 7 (12.73%) Support Engineer
8 6 (10.91%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Driving Licence
2 11 (20.00%) CCTV
3 9 (16.36%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (85.45%) Windows
2 44 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (36.36%) Linux
4 10 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.82%) Solaris
8 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) ITIL
2 20 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (34.55%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (20.00%) Time Management
6 9 (16.36%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (16.36%) ERP
6 9 (16.36%) Virtual Environments
7 8 (14.55%) Customer Service
8 7 (12.73%) Server Management
9 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (9.09%) Network Design
10 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 5 (9.09%) Project Planning
10 5 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (7.27%) Business Continuity
11 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (7.27%) Network Architecture
12 3 (5.45%) Agile
12 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) SQL
2 13 (23.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
3 3 (5.45%) Python
4 2 (3.64%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) A+ Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
5 6 (10.91%) CCNA
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 5 (9.09%) CCNP
6 5 (9.09%) Degree
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (7.27%) MCP
7 4 (7.27%) MCSA
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.45%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (78.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (34.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.36%) Hyper-V
3 9 (16.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) Docker
4 1 (1.82%) LXC
4 1 (1.82%) Samba
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.27%) Iperf
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (61.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (40.00%) VMware
3 11 (20.00%) Veeam
4 6 (10.91%) Cisco
5 5 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.45%) Meraki
6 3 (5.45%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.45%) Ruckus Wireless
6 3 (5.45%) SonicWALL
7 2 (3.64%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle
8 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds