Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 364 402
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 +76
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 458 347 642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.78% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.93% 5.21% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 359 278 560
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,750 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -6.25%

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 7,717 6,658 13,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.33% 15.05% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,301 3,718 9,403
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.94%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -2.22%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in the UK

VLAN
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

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 June 2026. 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 +20 438 £47,500 +18.75% 174
UK excluding London -25 290 £39,000 +4.00% 160
London +47 151 £65,000 +23.81% 44
North of England +24 95 £35,000 +12.90% 28
Work from Home +11 87 £47,500 - 56
South East -25 61 £47,500 +26.67% 65
Midlands -27 60 £53,000 +51.43% 24
North West +26 57 £33,000 +18.92% 18
South West -62 46 £32,000 -14.67% 18
West Midlands -31 34 £54,534 +36.33% 17
East Midlands -9 26 £32,500 -7.14% 7
Yorkshire -33 25 £34,000 -28.42% 7
East of England -32 16 £40,000 +23.08% 15
North East -36 13 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Scotland +5 6 £38,750 -3.13% 7
Wales -40 5 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Northern Ireland -40 1 - - 3

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 101 (22.05%) SharePoint
2 95 (20.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.66%) IIS
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.44%) nginx
4 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (5.02%) MS Visio
2 22 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.66%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.22%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 231 (50.44%) Microsoft 365
2 215 (46.94%) Azure
3 104 (22.71%) Entra ID
4 76 (16.59%) AWS
5 38 (8.30%) IaaS
6 35 (7.64%) SaaS
7 33 (7.21%) PaaS
8 28 (6.11%) Datadog
9 23 (5.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 18 (3.93%) Google Workspace
10 18 (3.93%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.53%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.09%) Route 53
14 4 (0.87%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 312 (68.12%) Firewall
2 259 (56.55%) VPN
3 231 (50.44%) DNS
4 210 (45.85%) DHCP
5 170 (37.12%) WAN
6 134 (29.26%) Wi-Fi
7 121 (26.42%) LAN
8 118 (25.76%) TCP/IP
9 98 (21.40%) Network Security
10 72 (15.72%) Wireless
11 68 (14.85%) BGP
12 61 (13.32%) SD-WAN
13 54 (11.79%) OSPF
14 49 (10.70%) SAN
15 44 (9.61%) VoIP
16 34 (7.42%) Cisco Wireless
17 31 (6.77%) Cisco ASA
18 30 (6.55%) SNMP
19 25 (5.46%) EIGRP
20 22 (4.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (12.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.31%) MySQL
4 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.66%) InfluxDB
5 3 (0.66%) Power BI
6 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.22%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 20 (4.37%) Chocolatey
2 5 (1.09%) Git
2 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.22%) JIRA
3 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 181 (39.52%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.50%) Finance
3 60 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.73%) Telecoms
5 35 (7.64%) Banking
6 26 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.46%) Retail
8 24 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (3.93%) Marketing
10 12 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.18%) Law
11 10 (2.18%) Legal
12 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.87%) Electronics
14 4 (0.87%) Front Office
14 4 (0.87%) Military
15 3 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 110 (24.02%) IT Support
2 105 (22.93%) Network Engineer
3 103 (22.49%) Senior
4 88 (19.21%) IT Engineer
5 70 (15.28%) Support Engineer
6 62 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 45 (9.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 44 (9.61%) 2nd Line Support
9 43 (9.39%) IT Technician
10 40 (8.73%) Support Technician
11 38 (8.30%) IT Support Technician
12 33 (7.21%) Senior IT Engineer
13 32 (6.99%) 3rd Line Support
14 31 (6.77%) Senior Network Engineer
15 29 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support
16 26 (5.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 22 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 22 (4.80%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
18 20 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
19 18 (3.93%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.18%) XMPP
2 7 (1.53%) gRPC
3 5 (1.09%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.09%) OAuth
3 5 (1.09%) SAML
4 3 (0.66%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (0.66%) RESTful
4 3 (0.66%) Web Services
5 2 (0.44%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (0.44%) Node.js
6 1 (0.22%) LDAP
6 1 (0.22%) Middleware
6 1 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.07%) Driving Licence
2 45 (9.83%) Data Centre
3 31 (6.77%) Video Conferencing
4 20 (4.37%) Cyber Threat
4 20 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.49%) Replication
7 15 (3.28%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.18%) FlexPod
10 9 (1.97%) CCTV
10 9 (1.97%) Digital Signage
11 8 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (1.53%) PKI
13 5 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 5 (1.09%) Social Media
14 4 (0.87%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.87%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 253 (55.24%) Windows
2 137 (29.91%) Windows Server
3 56 (12.23%) Windows 10
4 49 (10.70%) Linux
5 38 (8.30%) Mac OS
6 21 (4.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (3.28%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.97%) Android
10 7 (1.53%) VMS
11 5 (1.09%) Debian
12 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.66%) AIX
13 3 (0.66%) CentOS
13 3 (0.66%) Rocky
14 1 (0.22%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.22%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (30.57%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (20.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 80 (17.47%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 73 (15.94%) ITSM
5 68 (14.85%) ITIL
6 67 (14.63%) Service Delivery
7 55 (12.01%) Migration
7 55 (12.01%) Project Delivery
8 54 (11.79%) Customer Service
9 53 (11.57%) Network Monitoring
10 52 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (9.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 42 (9.17%) High Availability
13 38 (8.30%) Analytical Thinking
13 38 (8.30%) Mentoring
14 37 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
15 36 (7.86%) Remote Monitoring and Management
16 35 (7.64%) Kalman Filter
16 35 (7.64%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.45%) Python
2 53 (11.57%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.46%) SQL
4 14 (3.06%) Bash
5 6 (1.31%) VBA
6 4 (0.87%) Bicep
7 3 (0.66%) Go
7 3 (0.66%) Java
8 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 79 (17.25%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (13.76%) CCNP
3 54 (11.79%) Degree
4 37 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (6.77%) CCNA
6 30 (6.55%) Azure Certification
7 29 (6.33%) Security Cleared
8 27 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (5.90%) Network+ Certification
9 26 (5.68%) CCIE
10 22 (4.80%) SC Cleared
11 11 (2.40%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.09%) MCSA
13 4 (0.87%) CISSP
14 3 (0.66%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.22%) ACSP
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.83%) SLA
2 37 (8.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (5.02%) GDPR
5 16 (3.49%) PMO
5 16 (3.49%) QA
6 15 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 13 (2.84%) NIST
8 10 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (2.18%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.87%) DICOM
9 4 (0.87%) HL7
10 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 216 (47.16%) Active Directory
2 86 (18.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (15.94%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.37%) vSphere
5 19 (4.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (3.49%) ProxySG
7 14 (3.06%) BitLocker
8 11 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (2.18%) Firmware
10 9 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (1.09%) Docker
13 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 88 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (9.17%) SCCM
3 31 (6.77%) Jamf Pro
4 30 (6.55%) FortiGate
5 23 (5.02%) Ansible
6 20 (4.37%) Terraform
7 18 (3.93%) Grafana
8 13 (2.84%) Kubernetes
9 11 (2.40%) Autotask
10 10 (2.18%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (1.97%) Backup Exec
11 9 (1.97%) Nagios
12 8 (1.75%) vCenter Server
13 7 (1.53%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.09%) CASB
15 4 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.87%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds Orion
16 3 (0.66%) Netcool
16 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 276 (60.26%) Microsoft
2 145 (31.66%) Cisco
3 126 (27.51%) VMware
4 58 (12.66%) Palo Alto
5 52 (11.35%) SolarWinds
6 46 (10.04%) Fortinet
7 45 (9.83%) Meraki
8 36 (7.86%) Veeam
9 30 (6.55%) Apple
10 29 (6.33%) Zscaler
11 28 (6.11%) F5
12 26 (5.68%) Aruba
13 25 (5.46%) CheckPoint
13 25 (5.46%) ServiceNow
14 24 (5.24%) SonicWALL
15 22 (4.80%) Ubiquiti
16 21 (4.59%) Datto
16 21 (4.59%) Infoblox
17 20 (4.37%) AppDynamics
17 20 (4.37%) Dynatrace