VLAN Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 125 125 185
Rank change year-on-year 0 +60 -46
Contract jobs citing VLAN 8 35 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 1.07% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.72% 6.93% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 13
10th Percentile - - £163
25th Percentile £190 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -29.41%
75th Percentile £338 £520 £450
90th Percentile £403 £670 £568
England median daily rate £425 £473 £440
% change year-on-year -10.05% +7.39% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.25 -
England median hourly rate - £31.63 £32.25
% change year-on-year - -1.94% +46.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 464 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.23% 15.38% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 331 390
10th Percentile £200 £248 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.13 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 5 £200 -61.54% 12
East Midlands -2 3 £325 - 14
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (50.00%) LAN
4 4 (50.00%) WAN
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (37.50%) VoIP
6 1 (12.50%) BGP
6 1 (12.50%) CATAPAN
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (12.50%) HSRP
6 1 (12.50%) IPsec
6 1 (12.50%) OSPF
6 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (37.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Mac OS
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Quality Management
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Autotask
1 3 (37.50%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (37.50%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Apple
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Datto
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk