VLAN Job Trends in Worcestershire

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring VLAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Worcestershire 0.70% - 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.17% - 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £35,650 - £35,400
25th Percentile £37,750 - £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £39,500
90th Percentile - - £40,400
West Midlands median annual salary £53,784 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +7.57% +42.86% -22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 81 59 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 11.27% 31.89% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 76 58 29
10th Percentile £32,125 £24,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £31,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +77.42% -38.00% +88.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £32,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £48,750 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £39,000 £48,800
% change year-on-year +21.79% -20.08% +12.18%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

VLAN job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

VLAN
Salary Trend in Worcestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing VLAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing VLAN

VLAN
Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Redditch - 3 £35,500 -
Worcester - 2 £42,500 - 2
VLAN
West Midlands

VLAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) VoIP
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Major Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
2 3 (60.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) VMware