VLAN Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 386 459
Rank change year-on-year +41 +73 +130
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 85 208 208
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.36% 3.95% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 76 197 182
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £35,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £55,064 £60,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,886 £73,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £41,750 £40,313 £41,875
% change year-on-year +3.56% -3.73% -1.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,530 5,268 4,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.11% 15.59% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 3,409 3,537
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +0.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,600 £80,000 £89,191
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

VLAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VLAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VLAN
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VLAN.

VLAN salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VLAN over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

VLAN salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.06%) IIS
3 2 (2.35%) nginx
3 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) Azure
2 43 (50.59%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (29.41%) AWS
4 21 (24.71%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.71%) Mimecast
6 4 (4.71%) Route 53
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.35%) Serverless
8 1 (1.18%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 68 (80.00%) Firewall
2 43 (50.59%) DNS
3 41 (48.24%) VPN
4 39 (45.88%) DHCP
5 26 (30.59%) TCP/IP
6 24 (28.24%) WAN
7 19 (22.35%) LAN
8 15 (17.65%) BGP
8 15 (17.65%) VoIP
9 12 (14.12%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (12.94%) Wireless
11 10 (11.76%) Network Security
11 10 (11.76%) OSPF
12 8 (9.41%) SD-WAN
13 7 (8.24%) IPsec
14 6 (7.06%) HSRP
15 5 (5.88%) ADSL
15 5 (5.88%) IPv4
16 4 (4.71%) HTTPS
17 3 (3.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Git
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
1 2 (2.35%) JMeter
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.53%) Local Government
4 3 (3.53%) Police
5 2 (2.35%) Banking
5 2 (2.35%) Legal
5 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) IT Support
2 20 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (20.00%) IT Engineer
5 15 (17.65%) Analyst
5 15 (17.65%) Support Engineer
6 11 (12.94%) IT Analyst
6 11 (12.94%) Lead
7 10 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
7 10 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
7 10 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior
7 10 (11.76%) Support Analyst
8 9 (10.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (9.41%) IT Manager
9 8 (9.41%) IT Support Manager
10 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (5.88%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.35%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (2.35%) Node.js
2 1 (1.18%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.06%) Security Posture
3 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.71%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (4.71%) PKI
5 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 47 (55.29%) Windows
2 38 (44.71%) Windows Server
3 26 (30.59%) Linux
4 8 (9.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (7.06%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.71%) Android
6 4 (4.71%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.35%) CentOS
8 2 (2.35%) Debian
8 2 (2.35%) Rocky
8 2 (2.35%) SUSE
8 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.18%) Solaris
9 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (27.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (25.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (24.71%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (23.53%) ITIL
6 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
7 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
8 11 (12.94%) Network Design
8 11 (12.94%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.59%) Load Balancing
10 8 (9.41%) CRM
10 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.41%) Migration
10 8 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (8.24%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (8.24%) Presales
12 6 (7.06%) Computer Science
13 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
13 5 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 17 (20.00%) Python
3 11 (12.94%) SQL
4 8 (9.41%) Bash
5 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.35%) R
7 1 (1.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.29%) Network+ Certification
4 12 (14.12%) CCNP
5 10 (11.76%) A+ Certification
5 10 (11.76%) CCNA
6 9 (10.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (7.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.71%) MCSA
9 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.53%) MCP
10 2 (2.35%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.18%) MCITP
11 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (55.29%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.88%) Docker
4 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.53%) Firmware
6 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.35%) vSphere
7 1 (1.18%) LXC
7 1 (1.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.24%) Ansible
3 2 (2.35%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (2.35%) Iperf
3 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Nagios
3 2 (2.35%) Proxmox
3 2 (2.35%) Puppet
3 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.82%) VMware
3 14 (16.47%) Cisco
4 8 (9.41%) SolarWinds
5 7 (8.24%) Fortinet
6 6 (7.06%) HP
6 6 (7.06%) Meraki
6 6 (7.06%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.71%) Apple
7 4 (4.71%) Dell
8 3 (3.53%) Acronis
8 3 (3.53%) Aruba
8 3 (3.53%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.53%) Juniper
8 3 (3.53%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.53%) WatchGuard
9 2 (2.35%) F5
9 2 (2.35%) Rapid7
9 2 (2.35%) SevOne
9 2 (2.35%) Zerto