VLAN Job Trends in Wales

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 56 104
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 +8
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 6 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.31% 0.95% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.03% 3.36% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,150 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,063 £33,500 £40,244
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £55,000 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -33.18% +22.53% -
75th Percentile £40,250 £57,500 £45,780
90th Percentile £44,750 £63,500 -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 149 149 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.81% 28.17% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 116 117 152
10th Percentile £24,125 £23,504 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,563 £25,087 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £34,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -16.05% +6.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £47,688
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £59,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.39%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Wales

VLAN
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VLAN

VLAN
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing VLAN in Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VLAN in Wales

VLAN
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
South Wales -29 5 £38,500 -35.83% 1
North Wales - 1 £35,000 - 1
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DHCP
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Converged Networks
4 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Help Desk Technician
2 4 (66.67%) IT Technician
2 4 (66.67%) Senior IT Technician
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Technician
3 1 (16.67%) ICT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Server Migrations
1 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Synology
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam