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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 454 663
Rank change year-on-year +50 +209 -172
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 538 527 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.65% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.83% 4.06% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 458 455 636
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,150
% change year-on-year -6.25% -0.37% -4.40%

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 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +45 500 £41,500 -2.35% 91
UK excluding London +51 419 £37,500 -6.25% 85
Work from Home +35 173 £50,000 +11.11% 44
Midlands +44 117 £37,500 -11.76% 14
South East +13 116 £37,500 -6.25% 31
London +9 98 £52,500 -2.78% 13
West Midlands +35 66 £36,500 -14.12% 13
North of England +19 65 £37,500 -1.32% 17
South West -5 54 £45,000 +12.50% 12
East Midlands +4 51 £37,500 +4.58% 1
East of England +8 49 £41,500 - 8
Yorkshire +56 32 £37,500 +10.29% 3
North West -6 21 £46,500 +7.51% 12
North East -1 12 £29,750 -37.37% 2
Scotland -42 11 £31,250 +0.81% 1
Wales +33 7 £44,886 +14.36% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £32,500 - 3

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
1 107 (19.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (18.96%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.49%) Confluence
4 6 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.93%) SAS
6 3 (0.56%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) JOnAS
7 1 (0.19%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (12.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) Trello
4 1 (0.19%) CATIA
4 1 (0.19%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 282 (52.42%) Microsoft 365
2 239 (44.42%) Azure
3 81 (15.06%) Entra ID
4 80 (14.87%) AWS
5 35 (6.51%) OneDrive
6 26 (4.83%) Google Workspace
7 22 (4.09%) SaaS
8 18 (3.35%) IaaS
9 17 (3.16%) GCP
10 16 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.86%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.86%) PaaS
12 9 (1.67%) Nutanix
13 8 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.30%) WhatsApp
15 6 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (0.93%) Power Platform
17 3 (0.56%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 338 (62.83%) Firewall
2 228 (42.38%) VPN
3 205 (38.10%) DNS
4 193 (35.87%) WAN
5 170 (31.60%) TCP/IP
6 159 (29.55%) DHCP
7 151 (28.07%) LAN
8 114 (21.19%) Wi-Fi
9 83 (15.43%) Wireless
10 78 (14.50%) BGP
11 70 (13.01%) MPLS
11 70 (13.01%) OSPF
12 57 (10.59%) Network Security
13 56 (10.41%) SD-WAN
14 52 (9.67%) SAN
15 50 (9.29%) VoIP
16 40 (7.43%) IPsec
17 36 (6.69%) Internet
18 34 (6.32%) WLAN
19 32 (5.95%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.74%) DB2
4 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.74%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.49%) JIRA
2 5 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 183 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 39 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (5.95%) Finance
4 23 (4.28%) Law
5 22 (4.09%) Retail
6 21 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.67%) Automotive
9 9 (1.67%) Banking
10 8 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.30%) Legal
11 7 (1.30%) Police
12 5 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.56%) Back Office
13 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.56%) Local Government
13 3 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 95 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 94 (17.47%) Senior
4 76 (14.13%) Support Engineer
5 60 (11.15%) IT Support
6 59 (10.97%) IT Engineer
7 46 (8.55%) Analyst
8 30 (5.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 30 (5.58%) IT Technician
9 29 (5.39%) IT Manager
10 26 (4.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 23 (4.28%) Senior Network Engineer
12 22 (4.09%) Consultant
12 22 (4.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) Administrator
14 19 (3.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 19 (3.53%) IT Analyst
14 19 (3.53%) Support Technician
15 18 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.20%) 802.1X
2 5 (0.93%) LDAP
3 4 (0.74%) LEMP Stack
4 3 (0.56%) EDI
4 3 (0.56%) LAMP
4 3 (0.56%) REST
4 3 (0.56%) RESTful
4 3 (0.56%) SOAP
4 3 (0.56%) Web Services
4 3 (0.56%) XMPP
5 1 (0.19%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.19%) JSON
5 1 (0.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.90%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.76%) Driving Licence
3 21 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.42%) Clustering
7 13 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.23%) Replication
9 11 (2.04%) FMCG
10 10 (1.86%) CCTV
11 8 (1.49%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.12%) Smartphone
14 5 (0.93%) PMI
15 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 260 (48.33%) Windows
2 176 (32.71%) Windows Server
3 85 (15.80%) Linux
4 75 (13.94%) Windows 10
5 65 (12.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (6.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (5.02%) Android
8 22 (4.09%) Apple iOS
9 18 (3.35%) Mac OS X
9 18 (3.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (2.60%) Debian
10 14 (2.60%) Ubuntu
11 13 (2.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (2.23%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.49%) CentOS
14 6 (1.12%) Unix
14 6 (1.12%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.74%) VMS
16 2 (0.37%) Windows 8
17 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (21.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (13.57%) ITIL
4 69 (12.83%) Customer Service
5 47 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (7.62%) Agile
7 38 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (6.51%) Roadmaps
9 34 (6.32%) Project Delivery
9 34 (6.32%) Project Management
10 33 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (5.95%) Computer Science
11 32 (5.95%) Kalman Filter
12 29 (5.39%) Network Management
13 28 (5.20%) Service Delivery
14 27 (5.02%) Patch Management
15 26 (4.83%) Mentoring
15 26 (4.83%) Migration
16 25 (4.65%) Presales
17 23 (4.28%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.75%) PowerShell
2 43 (7.99%) SQL
3 21 (3.90%) Python
4 12 (2.23%) Bash
5 8 (1.49%) Java
6 5 (0.93%) C#
6 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.56%) Go
8 1 (0.19%) C
8 1 (0.19%) C++
8 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 94 (17.47%) Cisco Certification
2 84 (15.61%) Degree
3 64 (11.90%) CCNA
4 52 (9.67%) Security Cleared
5 51 (9.48%) CCNP
6 43 (7.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (5.20%) SC Cleared
9 23 (4.28%) MCSE
10 19 (3.53%) Azure Certification
11 18 (3.35%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.97%) APMP
12 16 (2.97%) DBS Check
13 13 (2.42%) AWS Certification
13 13 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (2.23%) CEH
14 12 (2.23%) MCSA
15 11 (2.04%) CCIE
15 11 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (3.35%) GDPR
2 18 (3.35%) SLA
3 15 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.67%) QA
5 8 (1.49%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 255 (47.40%) Active Directory
2 138 (25.65%) Hyper-V
3 124 (23.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (3.16%) vSphere
7 10 (1.86%) Firmware
7 10 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.74%) NFS
10 2 (0.37%) KVM
10 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.37%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) Docker
11 1 (0.19%) pfSense
11 1 (0.19%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 82 (15.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (8.18%) SCCM
3 24 (4.46%) WSUS
4 13 (2.42%) Autotask
5 11 (2.04%) Ansible
5 11 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
6 9 (1.67%) SmoothWall
7 8 (1.49%) Nagios
7 8 (1.49%) ZABBIX
8 7 (1.30%) Nessus
8 7 (1.30%) Terraform
9 6 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.56%) Icinga
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.56%) OfficeScan
13 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 297 (55.20%) Microsoft
2 200 (37.17%) Cisco
3 168 (31.23%) VMware
4 50 (9.29%) Veeam
5 39 (7.25%) Fortinet
6 35 (6.51%) Juniper
6 35 (6.51%) Meraki
7 28 (5.20%) Palo Alto
8 26 (4.83%) SolarWinds
9 25 (4.65%) Apple
9 25 (4.65%) Citrix
9 25 (4.65%) Dell
10 23 (4.28%) Google
11 22 (4.09%) CheckPoint
12 19 (3.53%) Avaya
13 17 (3.16%) Ruckus Wireless
13 17 (3.16%) SonicWALL
14 15 (2.79%) Datto
14 15 (2.79%) Ubiquiti
15 12 (2.23%) Aruba