VLAN Contracts in England

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VLAN over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 384 542
Rank change year-on-year -32 +158 -82
Contract jobs citing VLAN 130 271 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.56% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 4.58% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 174 143
10th Percentile £187 £220 £203
25th Percentile £253 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £473 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +7.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £540
90th Percentile £606 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.39% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 8
10th Percentile - £22.75 £18.65
25th Percentile - £29.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate - £31.63 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.94% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £47.63
90th Percentile - £39.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.63 £32.25
% change year-on-year +73.91% -1.94% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

VLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,788 5,911 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.24% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,859 5,152
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -2.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Daily rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VLAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in England

VLAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 45 £500 +2.56% 34
North of England +16 33 £514 +37.07% 34
South East +7 29 £253 -56.26% 29
Yorkshire +23 17 £525 +7.69% 18
North West +12 14 £310 -17.33% 13
South West +2 9 £425 -5.13% 20
Midlands +4 8 £250 -31.03% 27
West Midlands +3 5 £200 -61.54% 13
East of England +8 4 £400 -36.00% 10
East Midlands 0 3 £325 - 14
North East +11 2 £400 +190.91% 3
VLAN
UK

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.38%) Confluence
3 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.77%) Azure
2 27 (20.77%) AWS
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (11.54%) GCP
5 8 (6.15%) Nutanix
6 7 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.62%) IaaS
7 6 (4.62%) PaaS
7 6 (4.62%) Rubrik
7 6 (4.62%) SaaS
8 5 (3.85%) OCI
9 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.31%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.77%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.77%) GitHub
11 1 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (50.00%) Firewall
2 56 (43.08%) VPN
3 48 (36.92%) DHCP
4 45 (34.62%) DNS
5 42 (32.31%) TCP/IP
6 38 (29.23%) LAN
7 34 (26.15%) WAN
8 33 (25.38%) OSPF
9 27 (20.77%) BGP
10 23 (17.69%) Wireless
11 22 (16.92%) SAN
12 21 (16.15%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (12.31%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (12.31%) NAS
14 15 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (11.54%) MPLS
14 15 (11.54%) VoIP
15 14 (10.77%) HSRP
16 11 (8.46%) EIGRP
16 11 (8.46%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.54%) MySQL
2 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.77%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.77%) Power BI
3 1 (0.77%) Redis
3 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Jenkins
1 11 (8.46%) JIRA
2 9 (6.92%) Git
3 6 (4.62%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.77%) Darcs
4 1 (0.77%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.77%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.77%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.92%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.31%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (1.54%) Automotive
7 2 (1.54%) Banking
7 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.54%) French Language
7 2 (1.54%) Portuguese Language
7 2 (1.54%) Retail
7 2 (1.54%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Aviation
8 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) 2nd Line Support
4 12 (9.23%) Senior
5 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) IT Support
7 8 (6.15%) Network Support
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 6 (4.62%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Data Protection Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 8 (6.15%) LDAP
3 4 (3.08%) XMPP
4 2 (1.54%) ADSI
4 2 (1.54%) Jinja
4 2 (1.54%) JSON
4 2 (1.54%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.54%) RESTful
4 2 (1.54%) XML
4 2 (1.54%) YANG
5 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.77%) CSS
5 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.77%) HTML
5 1 (0.77%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.77%) libvirt
5 1 (0.77%) React
5 1 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.77%) Svelte
5 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Replication
2 14 (10.77%) Clustering
3 9 (6.92%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.15%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.31%) CCTV
6 3 (2.31%) PKI
6 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.54%) CMDB
7 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) CBDC
8 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.77%) Handset
8 1 (0.77%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (39.23%) Windows
2 37 (28.46%) Linux
3 22 (16.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.46%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (6.15%) Mac OS
6 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (5.38%) Unix
8 6 (4.62%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (4.62%) Solaris
9 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.31%) VMS
10 2 (1.54%) Android
10 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.77%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.46%) Change Management
2 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (10.77%) Service Delivery
4 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (8.46%) Data Protection
5 11 (8.46%) High Availability
6 10 (7.69%) Agile
7 9 (6.92%) Decision-Making
7 9 (6.92%) Migration
8 8 (6.15%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.15%) DevOps
8 8 (6.15%) Mobile Device Management
8 8 (6.15%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (6.15%) Storage Management
9 7 (5.38%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (5.38%) Customer Service
9 7 (5.38%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (5.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (5.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) Python
2 22 (16.92%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.92%) Bash
4 3 (2.31%) SQL
5 2 (1.54%) Java
6 1 (0.77%) C
6 1 (0.77%) C#
6 1 (0.77%) C++
6 1 (0.77%) Go
6 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.77%) Perl
6 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (22.31%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (17.69%) CCNP
3 21 (16.15%) Degree
4 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 15 (11.54%) CCNA
6 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.38%) CCIE
7 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.85%) MCSE
10 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.08%) VCAP
10 4 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.77%) CCIE Collaboration
12 1 (0.77%) CWDP
12 1 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) GDPR
1 6 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.54%) NCSC
2 2 (1.54%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) SLA
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (22.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.46%) Hyper-V
3 11 (8.46%) vSphere
4 8 (6.15%) Docker
5 7 (5.38%) Firmware
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.77%) Ceph
7 1 (0.77%) iptables
7 1 (0.77%) KVM
7 1 (0.77%) Lustre
7 1 (0.77%) NFS
7 1 (0.77%) Samba
7 1 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (21.54%) Ansible
2 20 (15.38%) Puppet
3 16 (12.31%) Terraform
4 15 (11.54%) NetBackup
5 14 (10.77%) SCCM
6 8 (6.15%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (6.15%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (5.38%) Kubernetes
8 6 (4.62%) Autotask
8 6 (4.62%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (4.62%) Netcool
8 6 (4.62%) Tivoli
8 6 (4.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (3.85%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.85%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (3.08%) Iperf
11 3 (2.31%) AppManager
11 3 (2.31%) WSUS
12 2 (1.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 49 (37.69%) Cisco
2 41 (31.54%) Microsoft
3 32 (24.62%) VMware
4 15 (11.54%) Palo Alto
4 15 (11.54%) Veritas
5 12 (9.23%) F5
6 10 (7.69%) Google
6 10 (7.69%) Juniper
6 10 (7.69%) Oracle
6 10 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 9 (6.92%) Apple
7 9 (6.92%) Aruba
7 9 (6.92%) Fortinet
8 8 (6.15%) HP
8 8 (6.15%) Qualys
8 8 (6.15%) Splunk
9 7 (5.38%) Dell
9 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.62%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.62%) Isilon