VLAN Contracts in London

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 372 514
Rank change year-on-year +28 +142 -96
Contract jobs citing VLAN 46 121 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% 4.67% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 70 58
10th Percentile £315 £220 £303
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.56% +25.90%
75th Percentile £525 £619 £548
90th Percentile £686 £690 £650
England median daily rate £425 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -10.05% +7.39% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £31.63 -
England median hourly rate - £31.63 £32.25
% change year-on-year - -1.94% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,664 2,589 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.01% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,817 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +4.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 82
10th Percentile £14.46 £20.11 £20.90
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.09% +27.41% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.35
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in London

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VLAN in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in London

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +22 2 £450 -4.76% 6
East London - 1 - - 3
VLAN
England

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (15.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) GCP
4 7 (15.22%) Nutanix
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (13.04%) IaaS
5 6 (13.04%) PaaS
5 6 (13.04%) Rubrik
5 6 (13.04%) SaaS
6 5 (10.87%) OCI
7 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.17%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (67.39%) Firewall
2 22 (47.83%) LAN
3 21 (45.65%) DHCP
4 19 (41.30%) DNS
5 18 (39.13%) WAN
6 17 (36.96%) OSPF
7 16 (34.78%) BGP
8 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
8 15 (32.61%) VPN
9 14 (30.43%) Wireless
10 10 (21.74%) EIGRP
10 10 (21.74%) MPLS
11 9 (19.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (19.57%) HSRP
11 9 (19.57%) NAS
11 9 (19.57%) SAN
12 8 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (15.22%) IPsec
13 7 (15.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Jenkins
1 11 (23.91%) JIRA
2 9 (19.57%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.17%) Darcs
4 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.17%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Aviation
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) RF Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) LDAP
2 6 (13.04%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.35%) Jinja
3 2 (4.35%) JSON
3 2 (4.35%) NETCONF
3 2 (4.35%) RESTful
3 2 (4.35%) XML
3 2 (4.35%) YANG
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) CSS
4 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.17%) HTML
4 1 (2.17%) LAMP
4 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.17%) libvirt
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) Svelte
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Clustering
2 7 (15.22%) Replication
3 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) CCTV
4 3 (6.52%) PKI
4 3 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) CBDC
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.17%) Housing Association
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.04%) Oracle Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Solaris
4 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.35%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) High Availability
2 8 (17.39%) Agile
2 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (15.22%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (13.04%) Data Security
4 6 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (13.04%) DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (13.04%) Security Hardening
4 6 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
4 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (13.04%) Storage Management
4 6 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (10.87%) Network Architecture
6 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 7 (15.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.17%) C
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) C++
4 1 (2.17%) Go
4 1 (2.17%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) Perl
4 1 (2.17%) Rust
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (23.91%) CCNP
3 7 (15.22%) CCNA
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 6 (13.04%) Degree
5 5 (10.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
5 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) CWDP
6 2 (4.35%) CWNA
7 1 (2.17%) CCIE
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
1 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.04%) Docker
4 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.17%) Ceph
5 1 (2.17%) iptables
5 1 (2.17%) KVM
5 1 (2.17%) Lustre
5 1 (2.17%) NFS
5 1 (2.17%) Samba
5 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) Ansible
3 6 (13.04%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Netcool
3 6 (13.04%) Tivoli
3 6 (13.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (10.87%) FortiGate
4 5 (10.87%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (8.70%) Iperf
6 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.35%) Puppet
6 2 (4.35%) SCCM
7 1 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (56.52%) Cisco
2 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
3 10 (21.74%) Palo Alto
3 10 (21.74%) VMware
4 8 (17.39%) Aruba
5 7 (15.22%) Google
5 7 (15.22%) Oracle
5 7 (15.22%) ServiceNow
5 7 (15.22%) Splunk
6 6 (13.04%) CheckPoint
6 6 (13.04%) CyberArk
6 6 (13.04%) Dell
6 6 (13.04%) EMC
6 6 (13.04%) HP
6 6 (13.04%) IBM
6 6 (13.04%) Isilon
6 6 (13.04%) Meraki
6 6 (13.04%) Qualys
6 6 (13.04%) Serena
6 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds