VLAN Job Trends in Swindon

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 3 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Swindon 1.68% 2.87% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.00% 30.00% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £33,325
25th Percentile £38,631 £31,750 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,398 £33,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% -33.33% +62.10%
75th Percentile £40,166 £35,625 £60,438
90th Percentile - £36,250 £66,175
Wiltshire median annual salary £32,250 £57,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -43.91% +64.29% -18.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 25 20 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 13.97% 9.57% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 26
10th Percentile £30,750 - £25,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £31,750 £26,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £35,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -11.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £38,083 £50,050 £49,688
90th Percentile £43,000 £53,951 £60,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £34,000 £57,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -40.87% +17.35% +16.67%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Swindon

VLAN
Salary Trend in Swindon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing VLAN

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineering Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Network Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (66.67%) Line Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto