VLAN Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 89 109
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 12 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.52% 0.85% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.41% 5.92% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile - £28,000 £33,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £34,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -1.45% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £38,750 £50,625
90th Percentile £77,500 - £73,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £36,000 £44,089
% change year-on-year +31.94% -18.35% +10.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 272 169 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 11.69% 14.41% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 179 142 149
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,250 £29,600
25th Percentile £32,000 £30,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -30.56% +4.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £43,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £63,625 £68,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Surrey

VLAN
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in Surrey

VLAN
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Woking - 9 £65,000 -
Egham - 2 £75,000 - 1
Guildford - 1 £70,000 - 3
VLAN
South East

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 9 (75.00%) LAN
2 9 (75.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) 4G
4 2 (16.67%) 5G
4 2 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) DNS
5 1 (8.33%) IPsec
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) SNMP
5 1 (8.33%) SSL
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 8 (66.67%) Military
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Field Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Field Service Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (50.00%) Linux
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Logistics
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (41.67%) CCNA
5 3 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (16.67%) HNC
6 2 (16.67%) HND
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (8.33%) CCNP
7 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Ericsson
3 2 (16.67%) Huawei
3 2 (16.67%) Nokia
3 2 (16.67%) Samsung