VLAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 364 442
Rank change year-on-year +17 +78 +49
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 257 489 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.65% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.60% 4.96% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 214 425 284
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £48,500 £47,500 £47,813
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £59,625
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -0.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,144 9,866 10,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.00% 13.17% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,355 7,111 4,601
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the UK excluding London

VLAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East +11 67 £37,500 - 41
South West +120 54 £40,000 +6.67% 26
Midlands -13 52 £35,000 -6.67% 33
West Midlands +27 44 £35,000 -11.95% 14
North of England -11 35 £37,500 - 71
East of England +18 30 £32,500 -18.75% 23
North West -11 15 £29,000 -35.56% 41
Yorkshire +31 14 £47,500 +26.67% 23
East Midlands -7 8 £35,500 -5.33% 19
Northern Ireland +47 7 - - 5
Scotland +110 6 £40,000 +9.59% 14
North East +39 6 £38,750 +31.36% 9
Wales +35 5 £55,000 +22.53% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 3
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (12.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (11.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.28%) IIS
4 5 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.78%) JOnAS
6 1 (0.39%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 45 (17.51%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 132 (51.36%) Azure
2 128 (49.81%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (17.90%) AWS
4 35 (13.62%) Entra ID
5 21 (8.17%) OneDrive
6 19 (7.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (4.28%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.72%) GCP
9 6 (2.33%) Mimecast
9 6 (2.33%) OCI
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.56%) Route 53
11 3 (1.17%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.78%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.78%) SaaS
12 2 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 157 (61.09%) Firewall
2 112 (43.58%) DNS
3 110 (42.80%) DHCP
4 103 (40.08%) VPN
5 83 (32.30%) TCP/IP
6 80 (31.13%) WAN
7 62 (24.12%) LAN
8 60 (23.35%) Wi-Fi
9 47 (18.29%) VoIP
10 43 (16.73%) OSPF
11 40 (15.56%) Network Security
12 39 (15.18%) BGP
13 30 (11.67%) SD-WAN
14 25 (9.73%) IPsec
15 24 (9.34%) Wireless
16 22 (8.56%) SAN
17 19 (7.39%) MPLS
18 17 (6.61%) WLAN
19 10 (3.89%) ADSL
19 10 (3.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.78%) Big Data
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.89%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) JMeter
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Maven
3 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.34%) Retail
3 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.95%) Legal
4 18 (7.00%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.28%) Automotive
5 11 (4.28%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.89%) Finance
6 10 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.72%) Law
7 7 (2.72%) Local Government
8 5 (1.95%) Police
9 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.17%) Billing
10 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (20.62%) IT Support
2 50 (19.46%) Network Engineer
3 45 (17.51%) Support Engineer
4 41 (15.95%) IT Engineer
5 33 (12.84%) 2nd Line Support
6 28 (10.89%) Analyst
7 27 (10.51%) 3rd Line Support
7 27 (10.51%) Senior
8 23 (8.95%) Support Analyst
9 20 (7.78%) IT Analyst
10 19 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (7.39%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (7.00%) IT Support Analyst
12 17 (6.61%) Lead
13 16 (6.23%) Support Technician
14 13 (5.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 13 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (4.67%) Senior Network Engineer
16 11 (4.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 10 (3.89%) Help Desk Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.28%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.39%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (0.39%) LDAP
3 1 (0.39%) Node.js
3 1 (0.39%) SAML
3 1 (0.39%) WSH
3 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.56%) Driving Licence
2 30 (11.67%) Data Centre
3 19 (7.39%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.00%) CCTV
5 14 (5.45%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (4.28%) Replication
6 11 (4.28%) Smartphone
7 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.33%) Fibre Optics
8 6 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.95%) PKI
10 4 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.17%) EPoS
11 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.39%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 156 (60.70%) Windows
2 126 (49.03%) Windows Server
3 54 (21.01%) Linux
4 50 (19.46%) Windows 10
5 34 (13.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (10.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (6.61%) Ubuntu
8 14 (5.45%) Mac OS X
9 12 (4.67%) Mac OS
10 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.95%) Debian
11 5 (1.95%) Unix
12 4 (1.56%) Windows 7
13 3 (1.17%) Android
13 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
13 3 (1.17%) CentOS
13 3 (1.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.78%) SUSE
15 1 (0.39%) Solaris
15 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.02%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (21.40%) ITIL
3 45 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (16.73%) Customer Service
4 43 (16.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (10.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (10.51%) Network Monitoring
7 25 (9.73%) Service Delivery
8 20 (7.78%) ITSM
9 19 (7.39%) Business Continuity
9 19 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
9 19 (7.39%) Computer Science
10 18 (7.00%) Migration
10 18 (7.00%) Project Delivery
11 17 (6.61%) ERP
12 16 (6.23%) Network Design
13 15 (5.84%) Time Management
14 14 (5.45%) Mentoring
14 14 (5.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.07%) PowerShell
2 39 (15.18%) SQL
3 17 (6.61%) Python
4 9 (3.50%) Bash
5 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.17%) R
7 2 (0.78%) VBScript
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (18.29%) Degree
2 41 (15.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (12.45%) CCNA
5 29 (11.28%) Security Cleared
6 24 (9.34%) SC Cleared
7 18 (7.00%) CCNP
7 18 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (6.61%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (5.06%) A+ Certification
10 12 (4.67%) MCSE
11 11 (4.28%) HNC
11 11 (4.28%) HND
12 10 (3.89%) AWS Certification
13 9 (3.50%) Azure Certification
14 8 (3.11%) MCSA
15 6 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (2.33%) MCP
16 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
17 4 (1.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.89%) SLA
4 8 (3.11%) QA
5 7 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.95%) GDPR
8 4 (1.56%) NIST
9 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 129 (50.19%) Active Directory
2 53 (20.62%) Hyper-V
3 51 (19.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.89%) Firmware
6 8 (3.11%) Docker
7 7 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.72%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) LXC
8 1 (0.39%) NFS
8 1 (0.39%) Samba
8 1 (0.39%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (22.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (5.84%) SCCM
3 14 (5.45%) Ansible
4 5 (1.95%) Dell DRAC
4 5 (1.95%) Iperf
4 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.56%) Autotask
5 4 (1.56%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) Grafana
7 2 (0.78%) Nessus
7 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.78%) Terraform
8 1 (0.39%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.39%) vRealize
8 1 (0.39%) WMI
8 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (55.25%) Microsoft
2 73 (28.40%) Cisco
3 61 (23.74%) VMware
4 27 (10.51%) Fortinet
5 21 (8.17%) Veeam
6 20 (7.78%) SolarWinds
7 19 (7.39%) Ubiquiti
8 17 (6.61%) Dell
9 15 (5.84%) Apple
9 15 (5.84%) HP
10 13 (5.06%) CheckPoint
10 13 (5.06%) Juniper
10 13 (5.06%) Meraki
11 12 (4.67%) Google
12 11 (4.28%) Palo Alto
13 10 (3.89%) Aruba
14 9 (3.50%) WatchGuard
15 7 (2.72%) arcserve
15 7 (2.72%) SonicWALL
16 6 (2.33%) Avaya