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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 246 222
Rank change year-on-year +120 -24 +57
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 56 52 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.57% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.00% 4.08% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43 45 44
10th Percentile £28,950 £27,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £43,125 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £55,119 £58,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%

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 622 1,273 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.42% 12.12% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 377 948 526
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,425 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £53,951 £58,750 £62,833
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,958 £77,715
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +31 24 £40,000 +6.67% 5
Dorset - 10 - - 2
Devon +20 7 £32,500 - 10
Gloucestershire +56 4 £56,250 +12.50% 2
Wiltshire +47 4 £34,500 -34.29% 1
Cornwall +12 4 £31,500 +5.00%
Bristol +61 3 £51,250 +36.67% 5
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 (19.64%) IIS
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (53.57%) Azure
3 13 (23.21%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) AWS
5 5 (8.93%) OneDrive
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.36%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.79%) IaaS
9 1 (1.79%) PaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 42 (75.00%) Firewall
2 32 (57.14%) VPN
3 26 (46.43%) DHCP
3 26 (46.43%) DNS
4 21 (37.50%) VoIP
4 21 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (28.57%) LAN
5 16 (28.57%) WAN
6 10 (17.86%) ADSL
6 10 (17.86%) MPLS
6 10 (17.86%) SAN
7 8 (14.29%) IPsec
8 5 (8.93%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (8.93%) Network Security
8 5 (8.93%) OSPF
8 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.36%) BGP
9 3 (5.36%) DMZ
9 3 (5.36%) Wireless
9 3 (5.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Legal
2 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Local Government
4 1 (1.79%) Police
4 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (48.21%) IT Support
2 15 (26.79%) Analyst
2 15 (26.79%) IT Analyst
2 15 (26.79%) IT Support Analyst
2 15 (26.79%) Support Analyst
3 13 (23.21%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (19.64%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 10 (17.86%) Coordinator
5 10 (17.86%) Help Desk Coordinator
5 10 (17.86%) Support Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) IT Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Lead
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Driving Licence
2 10 (17.86%) CCTV
2 10 (17.86%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 50 (89.29%) Windows
2 43 (76.79%) Windows Server
3 18 (32.14%) Linux
4 15 (26.79%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.79%) Solaris
8 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (33.93%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (33.93%) ITIL
3 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 11 (19.64%) Time Management
6 10 (17.86%) ERP
6 10 (17.86%) Virtual Environments
7 9 (16.07%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.93%) Project Planning
9 4 (7.14%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.14%) Server Management
10 3 (5.36%) Agile
10 3 (5.36%) Business Continuity
10 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Management
10 3 (5.36%) Migration
10 3 (5.36%) Risk Management
10 3 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) Bash
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) A+ Certification
2 10 (17.86%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Degree
4 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.93%) CCNA
4 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.36%) CCNP
6 3 (5.36%) MCP
6 3 (5.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 41 (73.21%) Active Directory
2 19 (33.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.07%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.79%) Docker
5 1 (1.79%) LXC
5 1 (1.79%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.36%) Ansible
2 3 (5.36%) Iperf
3 2 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (39.29%) VMware
3 11 (19.64%) Veeam
4 6 (10.71%) Cisco
5 5 (8.93%) Fortinet
5 5 (8.93%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (5.36%) Meraki
6 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.36%) Ruckus Wireless
6 3 (5.36%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.79%) Aruba
7 1 (1.79%) HP
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds