VLAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 137 176 257
Rank change year-on-year +39 +81 -34
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 61 71 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 0.98% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.10% 7.10% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 47 16
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -11.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,750 £49,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.19% -7.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the West Midlands

VLAN
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for VLAN in the West Midlands

VLAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for VLAN in the West Midlands

VLAN
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the West Midlands region 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
Staffordshire +34 22 £35,000 - 1
Warwickshire -5 20 £48,000 +19.07% 1
Birmingham +16 12 £45,000 - 9
Solihull - 3 £46,500 -
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Worcestershire +16 1 £36,500 +21.67%
Coventry - 1 £45,000 - 1
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (65.57%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) Azure Sentinel
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (26.23%) AWS
3 16 (26.23%) Google Workspace
4 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (6.56%) Route 53
6 2 (3.28%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 43 (70.49%) Firewall
2 24 (39.34%) WAN
3 21 (34.43%) DHCP
3 21 (34.43%) DNS
4 19 (31.15%) BGP
4 19 (31.15%) SD-WAN
4 19 (31.15%) TCP/IP
5 18 (29.51%) OSPF
6 16 (26.23%) Network Security
6 16 (26.23%) WLAN
7 9 (14.75%) VPN
8 8 (13.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
9 4 (6.56%) LAN
10 3 (4.92%) VRRP
11 2 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.28%) MPLS
11 2 (3.28%) SAN
11 2 (3.28%) Wireless
12 1 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.64%) JIRA
1 1 (1.64%) Maven
1 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Retail
3 16 (26.23%) Automotive
4 7 (11.48%) Law
4 7 (11.48%) Legal
5 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Police
7 1 (1.64%) Finance
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Network Engineer
2 20 (32.79%) IT Engineer
3 18 (29.51%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) Senior
6 8 (13.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) IT Support
9 3 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Professional Services Engineer
11 1 (1.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.64%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.64%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.64%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) LDAP
1 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Management Information System
1 16 (26.23%) Smartphone
2 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 37 (60.66%) Windows Server
2 34 (55.74%) Windows
3 23 (37.70%) Windows 10
4 18 (29.51%) Linux
5 17 (27.87%) Ubuntu
5 17 (27.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (27.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (26.23%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.64%) CentOS
7 1 (1.64%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (26.23%) Business Case
2 16 (26.23%) Computer Science
2 16 (26.23%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (26.23%) Systems Engineering
3 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (16.39%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.48%) Case Management
7 6 (9.84%) ITIL
7 6 (9.84%) ITSM
7 6 (9.84%) Service Delivery
7 6 (9.84%) Service Management
7 6 (9.84%) Supplier Management
8 5 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (8.20%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) PowerShell
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.64%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (29.51%) Degree
3 16 (26.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (26.23%) HNC
3 16 (26.23%) HND
3 16 (26.23%) MCSE
4 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
5 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.56%) CCNA
7 4 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.92%) CCNP
9 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (60.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.48%) Hyper-V
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.56%) vSphere
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.64%) Docker
5 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) Nessus
2 1 (1.64%) Puppet
2 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (57.38%) Cisco
2 33 (54.10%) Microsoft
3 19 (31.15%) Ubiquiti
4 18 (29.51%) Fortinet
5 16 (26.23%) Apple
5 16 (26.23%) Dell
5 16 (26.23%) Google
6 15 (24.59%) SolarWinds
7 11 (18.03%) VMware
8 8 (13.11%) WatchGuard
9 7 (11.48%) Acronis
10 6 (9.84%) Avaya
10 6 (9.84%) Zscaler
11 5 (8.20%) Meraki
12 3 (4.92%) Aruba
13 2 (3.28%) CheckPoint
13 2 (3.28%) HP
13 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
14 1 (1.64%) Juniper
14 1 (1.64%) Sophos