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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 366 445
Rank change year-on-year -29 +79 +155
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 80 218 171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 4.43% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 74 199 160
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £37,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £66,150
UK median annual salary £39,398 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.51% -5.88% -5.56%

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 5,718 4,920 4,080
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 14.93% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 3,000 3,224
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £81,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £33,500 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year -29.47% -7.50% -2.19%

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 12 July 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.25%) IIS
4 2 (2.50%) nginx
4 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) Azure
2 37 (46.25%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (32.50%) AWS
4 17 (21.25%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.25%) GCP
6 6 (7.50%) OCI
6 6 (7.50%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (5.00%) Mimecast
7 4 (5.00%) Route 53
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.50%) Serverless
9 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.25%) IaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (81.25%) Firewall
2 43 (53.75%) DNS
2 43 (53.75%) VPN
3 41 (51.25%) DHCP
4 32 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 19 (23.75%) Network Security
6 18 (22.50%) LAN
7 17 (21.25%) WAN
8 15 (18.75%) OSPF
8 15 (18.75%) VoIP
9 14 (17.50%) BGP
10 10 (12.50%) Wireless
11 9 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (8.75%) SD-WAN
13 5 (6.25%) ADSL
13 5 (6.25%) IPv4
14 4 (5.00%) HTTPS
14 4 (5.00%) Internet
14 4 (5.00%) IP Telephony
14 4 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
1 2 (2.50%) JMeter
General
1 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Local Government
6 2 (2.50%) Police
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) IT Support
2 24 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) IT Engineer
4 13 (16.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (16.25%) Support Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) IT Manager
5 11 (13.75%) IT Support Manager
6 10 (12.50%) Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) IT Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
6 10 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Support Analyst
7 9 (11.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Lead
8 6 (7.50%) Junior
8 6 (7.50%) Junior Network Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Network Technician
9 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Node.js
2 4 (5.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (2.50%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (1.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.25%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (5.00%) iPhone
4 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) PKI
6 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (55.00%) Windows
2 29 (36.25%) Windows Server
3 25 (31.25%) Linux
4 7 (8.75%) Android
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.75%) Debian
7 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.50%) CentOS
8 2 (2.50%) Rocky
8 2 (2.50%) SUSE
8 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (23.75%) ITIL
4 16 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
5 15 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (16.25%) Load Balancing
7 10 (12.50%) Network Design
7 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 9 (11.25%) Computer Science
8 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
9 8 (10.00%) CRM
9 8 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (6.25%) Decision-Making
10 5 (6.25%) DevOps
10 5 (6.25%) High Availability
11 4 (5.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) R
6 1 (1.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Degree
2 19 (23.75%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (22.50%) Network+ Certification
4 11 (13.75%) CCNA
4 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (12.50%) A+ Certification
5 10 (12.50%) CCNP
6 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
6 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
7 7 (8.75%) Azure Certification
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Certification
8 6 (7.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (5.00%) JNCIA
9 4 (5.00%) MCSA
10 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
10 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (3.75%) MCP
11 2 (2.50%) CCIE
12 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (48.75%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.25%) Firmware
5 4 (5.00%) Docker
5 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.50%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (16.25%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) Iperf
3 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Nagios
3 2 (2.50%) Puppet
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.25%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.50%) Cisco
3 13 (16.25%) VMware
4 7 (8.75%) Apple
5 6 (7.50%) HP
5 6 (7.50%) Juniper
5 6 (7.50%) SolarWinds
6 5 (6.25%) Meraki
7 4 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.75%) Dell
8 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.75%) SonicWALL
9 2 (2.50%) Aruba
9 2 (2.50%) Mitel
9 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.50%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (2.50%) Veeam
10 1 (1.25%) SAP