Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 321 556 518
Rank change year-on-year +235 -38 -110
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 513 629 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.41% 4.12% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 439 534 601
10th Percentile £27,400 £28,825 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.19% -1.18%
75th Percentile £59,375 £56,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £71,906 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,005 15,255 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 12.42% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 10,353 11,511
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Top 17 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 7 December 2023. 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 +219 476 £42,000 -1.18% 201
UK excluding London +153 339 £37,500 -1.32% 170
Work from Home +186 205 £40,000 -15.79% 57
London +241 144 £60,000 +14.29% 38
South West +104 86 £37,500 - 16
South East +71 85 £32,500 -7.14% 52
Midlands +149 74 £42,500 -8.11% 44
North of England +109 67 £40,000 -4.19% 41
West Midlands +133 50 £45,000 -5.26% 28
Yorkshire +92 33 £40,000 -5.88% 13
North West +96 30 £37,000 -5.13% 24
East of England +108 25 £37,500 -16.67% 14
East Midlands +64 24 £34,500 -6.53% 16
Wales +16 8 £39,250 -1.88%
Scotland +30 5 £65,000 +61.89% 9
North East +42 4 £40,500 -8.47% 6
Northern Ireland +38 1 £47,500 -38.71%

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 71 (13.84%) SharePoint
2 46 (8.97%) MS Exchange
3 12 (2.34%) IIS
4 5 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.78%) Confluence
6 3 (0.58%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (9.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 286 (55.75%) Azure
2 271 (52.83%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 77 (15.01%) AWS
5 40 (7.80%) PaaS
6 38 (7.41%) OneDrive
7 32 (6.24%) IaaS
8 28 (5.46%) Datadog
9 26 (5.07%) Mimecast
10 21 (4.09%) SaaS
11 20 (3.90%) GCP
12 12 (2.34%) WhatsApp
13 10 (1.95%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.36%) Nutanix
16 6 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 4 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
17 4 (0.78%) Power Platform
17 4 (0.78%) PowerApps
17 4 (0.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 306 (59.65%) Firewall
2 272 (53.02%) DNS
3 255 (49.71%) VPN
4 236 (46.00%) DHCP
5 185 (36.06%) WAN
6 169 (32.94%) LAN
7 144 (28.07%) TCP/IP
8 117 (22.81%) Wireless
9 115 (22.42%) Wi-Fi
10 82 (15.98%) OSPF
11 81 (15.79%) SAN
12 68 (13.26%) BGP
13 53 (10.33%) MPLS
14 51 (9.94%) VoIP
15 40 (7.80%) Network Security
16 37 (7.21%) IPsec
17 36 (7.02%) Broadband
17 36 (7.02%) IPv4
18 32 (6.24%) ADSL
19 30 (5.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.56%) MySQL
4 7 (1.36%) Big Data
5 4 (0.78%) Power BI
5 4 (0.78%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.58%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.39%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.19%) MySQL Workbench
8 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (3.31%) JIRA
2 4 (0.78%) Git
3 1 (0.19%) DBeaver
3 1 (0.19%) GitLab
3 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 148 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.26%) Telecoms
3 39 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (3.90%) Finance
6 15 (2.92%) Billing
7 14 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.34%) Legal
9 8 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.36%) Retail
11 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.97%) Law
12 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.78%) Publishing
14 3 (0.58%) Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Local Government
14 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (22.03%) Support Engineer
2 99 (19.30%) Network Engineer
3 84 (16.37%) IT Engineer
4 78 (15.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 74 (14.42%) Senior
6 60 (11.70%) IT Support
7 51 (9.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 45 (8.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 44 (8.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 43 (8.38%) IT Support Engineer
11 42 (8.19%) Architect
12 38 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 37 (7.21%) Network Support
14 29 (5.65%) Network Support Engineer
15 27 (5.26%) Administrator
16 26 (5.07%) Senior Network Engineer
17 24 (4.68%) Lead
17 24 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
18 21 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
18 21 (4.09%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.90%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.36%) LDAP
3 6 (1.17%) XML
4 5 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.58%) FHIR
6 2 (0.39%) .NET
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) JSON
6 2 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.39%) Velocity
6 2 (0.39%) WSH
6 2 (0.39%) YAML
7 1 (0.19%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.19%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.19%) J2EE
7 1 (0.19%) Middleware
7 1 (0.19%) Node.js
7 1 (0.19%) OAuth
7 1 (0.19%) REST
7 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.72%) Driving Licence
2 48 (9.36%) Data Centre
3 40 (7.80%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (5.07%) Replication
6 18 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (2.53%) CCTV
7 13 (2.53%) NHS
8 12 (2.34%) Clustering
8 12 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.56%) iPhone
10 6 (1.17%) Life Science
10 6 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.78%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.78%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.58%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.58%) IoT
12 3 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 322 (62.77%) Windows
2 198 (38.60%) Windows Server
3 91 (17.74%) Windows 10
4 82 (15.98%) Linux
5 61 (11.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 61 (11.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 57 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (4.87%) Android
8 21 (4.09%) Apple iOS
9 18 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
10 17 (3.31%) Ubuntu
11 16 (3.12%) Windows 7
12 14 (2.73%) SUSE
13 13 (2.53%) Mac OS
14 11 (2.14%) Unix
15 10 (1.95%) Mac OS X
16 8 (1.56%) Windows 8
17 1 (0.19%) CentOS
17 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (20.47%) Customer Service
2 100 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 84 (16.37%) ITIL
5 54 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 53 (10.33%) Project Delivery
7 42 (8.19%) Network Monitoring
8 41 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (7.99%) Mentoring
9 34 (6.63%) Agile
10 33 (6.43%) Migration
11 31 (6.04%) Project Management
12 28 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (5.26%) Configuration Management
13 27 (5.26%) Task Automation
14 25 (4.87%) Computer Science
14 25 (4.87%) Presales
15 23 (4.48%) Asset Management
15 23 (4.48%) Collaborative Working
16 22 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (17.74%) PowerShell
2 52 (10.14%) SQL
3 33 (6.43%) Bash
4 31 (6.04%) Python
5 5 (0.97%) DataFlex
6 4 (0.78%) Java
6 4 (0.78%) Perl
7 2 (0.39%) C#
7 2 (0.39%) C++
7 2 (0.39%) VBScript
8 1 (0.19%) Clojure
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.19%) VB
8 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 115 (22.42%) Cisco Certification
2 81 (15.79%) CCNA
3 75 (14.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 56 (10.92%) Degree
5 43 (8.38%) CCNP
6 37 (7.21%) Security Cleared
7 34 (6.63%) MCSE
8 33 (6.43%) Network+ Certification
9 25 (4.87%) MCITP
10 23 (4.48%) DBS Check
11 22 (4.29%) A+ Certification
12 19 (3.70%) CCIE
12 19 (3.70%) MCSA
13 17 (3.31%) SC Cleared
14 16 (3.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 13 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (2.34%) Azure Certification
16 12 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (2.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.12%) SLA
2 12 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.97%) NCSC
4 4 (0.78%) GDPR
5 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.58%) DICOM
5 3 (0.58%) HL7
5 3 (0.58%) NIST
5 3 (0.58%) PMO
5 3 (0.58%) QA
6 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 249 (48.54%) Active Directory
2 140 (27.29%) Hyper-V
3 123 (23.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (4.29%) Docker
4 22 (4.29%) vSphere
5 14 (2.73%) vCloud
6 13 (2.53%) Firmware
6 13 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (2.14%) Terminal Services
9 9 (1.75%) Terminal Server
10 6 (1.17%) KVM
11 5 (0.97%) Ceph
11 5 (0.97%) NFS
11 5 (0.97%) XenApp
11 5 (0.97%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.78%) pfSense
13 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 90 (17.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (6.04%) Ansible
2 31 (6.04%) FortiGate
3 29 (5.65%) Puppet
4 23 (4.48%) SCCM
5 20 (3.90%) Kubernetes
6 13 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (2.34%) Terraform
7 12 (2.34%) WSUS
8 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (1.75%) Nagios
9 9 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.56%) Icinga
10 8 (1.56%) SmoothWall
11 7 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (1.17%) PaperCut
13 4 (0.78%) EdgeSight
13 4 (0.78%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 261 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 199 (38.79%) VMware
3 174 (33.92%) Cisco
4 45 (8.77%) Meraki
5 36 (7.02%) HP
6 32 (6.24%) SonicWALL
7 31 (6.04%) Veeam
8 30 (5.85%) Citrix
9 29 (5.65%) Aruba
10 28 (5.46%) AppDynamics
10 28 (5.46%) Dynatrace
10 28 (5.46%) Google
11 26 (5.07%) Juniper
11 26 (5.07%) Palo Alto
12 22 (4.29%) Sophos
13 21 (4.09%) Fortinet
14 17 (3.31%) Apple
15 16 (3.12%) CheckPoint
15 16 (3.12%) Dell
15 16 (3.12%) SolarWinds