Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 383 530
Rank change year-on-year +11 +147 +128
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 355 670 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.12% 4.92% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 291 600 470
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,313 £42,444
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -5.02% -0.13%
75th Percentile £53,633 £54,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,272 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,750 £37,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.32% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +11 339 £42,500 +6.25% 171
UK excluding London +28 258 £38,750 +3.33% 140
London +62 93 £52,500 -8.70% 40
Work from Home +64 84 £46,000 -3.16% 72
Midlands -3 66 £37,000 -5.13% 19
South East +26 65 £37,500 +7.14% 49
West Midlands +39 61 £42,500 +6.92% 11
South West +120 56 £40,000 +6.67% 22
East of England +33 36 £34,250 -14.38% 15
North of England +24 24 £42,500 +13.33% 28
North West +22 18 £42,500 -5.56% 15
Wales +36 6 £34,000 -24.25% 5
Scotland +114 5 £40,000 +5.26% 2
East Midlands -9 5 £35,000 -6.67% 7
Yorkshire +35 4 £46,100 +18.97% 9
North East +38 2 £38,750 +31.36% 4

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 66 (18.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (10.99%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.38%) IIS
4 3 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 53 (14.93%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.85%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 188 (52.96%) Azure
2 185 (52.11%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (22.82%) Entra ID
4 72 (20.28%) AWS
5 30 (8.45%) OneDrive
6 24 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (6.48%) Google Workspace
8 13 (3.66%) SaaS
9 9 (2.54%) IaaS
10 8 (2.25%) Mimecast
10 8 (2.25%) PaaS
11 7 (1.97%) GCP
11 7 (1.97%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.69%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.13%) Route 53
14 2 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 220 (61.97%) Firewall
2 171 (48.17%) DNS
3 160 (45.07%) DHCP
4 131 (36.90%) VPN
5 105 (29.58%) TCP/IP
6 100 (28.17%) WAN
7 77 (21.69%) LAN
8 63 (17.75%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (17.18%) VoIP
10 55 (15.49%) BGP
11 50 (14.08%) OSPF
12 48 (13.52%) Network Security
13 38 (10.70%) Wireless
14 35 (9.86%) SAN
15 34 (9.58%) SD-WAN
16 28 (7.89%) IPsec
17 27 (7.61%) IPv4
17 27 (7.61%) PBX
18 23 (6.48%) MPLS
19 22 (6.20%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.85%) MySQL
3 3 (0.85%) Power BI
4 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.56%) Big Data
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Git
1 4 (1.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.56%) JMeter
3 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Maven
3 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 155 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (11.55%) Finance
4 36 (10.14%) Retail
5 30 (8.45%) Telecoms
6 24 (6.76%) Legal
7 19 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.51%) Automotive
9 12 (3.38%) Law
9 12 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.25%) Local Government
10 8 (2.25%) Military
11 5 (1.41%) Police
12 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Banking
13 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 70 (19.72%) IT Engineer
2 59 (16.62%) IT Support
3 57 (16.06%) Network Engineer
4 54 (15.21%) Support Engineer
5 53 (14.93%) Senior
6 48 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (12.11%) Analyst
8 34 (9.58%) 2nd Line Support
9 30 (8.45%) Support Analyst
10 27 (7.61%) IT Support Engineer
11 25 (7.04%) 3rd Line Support
12 23 (6.48%) IT Analyst
13 21 (5.92%) IT Support Analyst
13 21 (5.92%) Lead
14 19 (5.35%) Desktop Support
14 19 (5.35%) Systems Engineer
15 18 (5.07%) IT Manager
15 18 (5.07%) Senior Network Engineer
16 13 (3.66%) Desktop Engineer
16 13 (3.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.82%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.13%) Node.js
3 3 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
3 3 (0.85%) SAML
4 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.56%) LDAP
5 1 (0.28%) EDI
5 1 (0.28%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.28%) WSH
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.70%) Driving Licence
2 36 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 23 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 22 (6.20%) CCTV
5 16 (4.51%) Smartphone
6 14 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.66%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.25%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.97%) Replication
11 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.13%) IoT
12 4 (1.13%) PKI
13 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.85%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 217 (61.13%) Windows
2 181 (50.99%) Windows Server
3 93 (26.20%) Linux
4 76 (21.41%) Windows 10
5 48 (13.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 40 (11.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (7.04%) Mac OS X
8 21 (5.92%) Ubuntu
9 18 (5.07%) Android
9 18 (5.07%) Mac OS
10 11 (3.10%) Unix
11 10 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.97%) Apple iOS
13 6 (1.69%) CentOS
14 5 (1.41%) Debian
14 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (1.13%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.85%) Rocky
17 2 (0.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (21.41%) ITIL
3 72 (20.28%) Disaster Recovery
4 60 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (13.52%) Customer Service
7 35 (9.86%) Infrastructure Management
8 32 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (9.01%) Network Monitoring
9 29 (8.17%) Migration
9 29 (8.17%) Time Management
10 28 (7.89%) Business Continuity
10 28 (7.89%) Project Delivery
11 27 (7.61%) Computer Science
12 25 (7.04%) ITSM
13 23 (6.48%) Incident Management
14 22 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (6.20%) Network Design
15 21 (5.92%) Mentoring
15 21 (5.92%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (25.35%) PowerShell
2 50 (14.08%) SQL
3 36 (10.14%) Python
4 14 (3.94%) Bash
5 11 (3.10%) R
6 8 (2.25%) C
7 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.85%) Perl
9 2 (0.56%) VBScript
10 1 (0.28%) C#
10 1 (0.28%) C++
10 1 (0.28%) Ruby
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (24.79%) Degree
2 72 (20.28%) Cisco Certification
3 67 (18.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 53 (14.93%) CCNA
5 46 (12.96%) Security Cleared
6 36 (10.14%) CCNP
6 36 (10.14%) Network+ Certification
7 33 (9.30%) SC Cleared
8 20 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (4.79%) HND
9 17 (4.79%) MCSE
10 16 (4.51%) HNC
11 15 (4.23%) A+ Certification
12 13 (3.66%) Azure Certification
12 13 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (2.82%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (2.54%) MCSA
15 7 (1.97%) GSEC
15 7 (1.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.92%) SLA
2 17 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (4.79%) QA
3 10 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.97%) MIL-STD-1553
5 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.41%) GDPR
6 5 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.13%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 204 (57.46%) Active Directory
2 87 (24.51%) Hyper-V
3 81 (22.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (3.10%) Docker
8 9 (2.54%) Firmware
9 7 (1.97%) vSphere
10 3 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.56%) pfSense
11 2 (0.56%) Postfix
12 1 (0.28%) LXC
12 1 (0.28%) NFS
12 1 (0.28%) Samba
12 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 78 (21.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (7.89%) SCCM
3 16 (4.51%) WSUS
4 13 (3.66%) Ansible
5 8 (2.25%) Dell DRAC
5 8 (2.25%) FortiGate
5 8 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.97%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.69%) Iperf
7 6 (1.69%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.41%) Nagios
8 5 (1.41%) Puppet
9 3 (0.85%) Autotask
9 3 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.85%) Terraform
9 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.56%) cPanel
10 2 (0.56%) Grafana
10 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 204 (57.46%) Microsoft
2 108 (30.42%) Cisco
3 93 (26.20%) VMware
4 49 (13.80%) Veeam
5 41 (11.55%) Fortinet
6 31 (8.73%) SolarWinds
7 26 (7.32%) Dell
7 26 (7.32%) Google
8 25 (7.04%) Ubiquiti
9 23 (6.48%) Apple
9 23 (6.48%) Meraki
10 20 (5.63%) HP
11 17 (4.79%) WatchGuard
12 16 (4.51%) Citrix
12 16 (4.51%) Palo Alto
13 10 (2.82%) Avaya
13 10 (2.82%) Juniper
14 9 (2.54%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.25%) Aruba
16 7 (1.97%) Acronis