Virtual LAN (VLAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 427 426 591
Rank change year-on-year -1 +165 -88
Contract jobs citing VLAN 147 293 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.73% 4.14% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 185 165
10th Percentile £189 £222 £203
25th Percentile £287 £325 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £648 £688 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £449 £400
% change year-on-year -10.91% +12.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 8
10th Percentile - £22.75 £18.65
25th Percentile - £29.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.63 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -1.94% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £47.63
90th Percentile - £39.65 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £29.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year - -10.08% +65.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

VLAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VLAN in the UK

VLAN
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the UK 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
England -32 130 £431 -8.73% 156
UK excluding London -13 85 £400 -10.91% 124
London +26 45 £500 +2.56% 34
Work from Home +61 39 £513 +2.50% 53
North of England +16 33 £514 +37.07% 34
South East +7 29 £253 -56.26% 28
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% 28
West Midlands +3 5 £200 -61.54% 13
East of England +8 4 £400 -36.00% 10
East Midlands 0 3 £325 - 15
Scotland +48 2 £688 -
North East +11 2 £400 +190.91% 3
Wales +17 1 - - 4

VLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.76%) Confluence
3 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.89%) Azure
2 29 (19.73%) AWS
3 17 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (10.20%) GCP
5 8 (5.44%) Nutanix
6 7 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.08%) IaaS
7 6 (4.08%) PaaS
7 6 (4.08%) Rubrik
7 6 (4.08%) SaaS
8 5 (3.40%) OCI
9 4 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.04%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.04%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.68%) GitHub
11 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 76 (51.70%) Firewall
2 63 (42.86%) VPN
3 54 (36.73%) DHCP
4 53 (36.05%) DNS
5 48 (32.65%) TCP/IP
6 41 (27.89%) LAN
7 37 (25.17%) OSPF
7 37 (25.17%) WAN
8 31 (21.09%) BGP
9 23 (15.65%) Wireless
10 22 (14.97%) SAN
10 22 (14.97%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (12.24%) MPLS
12 16 (10.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 16 (10.88%) NAS
12 16 (10.88%) Network Security
12 16 (10.88%) VoIP
13 15 (10.20%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (10.20%) HSRP
14 12 (8.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.36%) MySQL
2 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.68%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) JIRA
2 11 (7.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.80%) Git
4 6 (4.08%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.68%) Darcs
5 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.68%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.20%) Finance
4 11 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.80%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.04%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Automotive
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.36%) French Language
8 2 (1.36%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.36%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) German Language
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (31.29%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.56%) Support Engineer
3 14 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (9.52%) Senior
4 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (6.80%) IT Support
7 9 (6.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Network Support
8 8 (5.44%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 6 (4.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) 802.1X
2 8 (5.44%) LDAP
3 4 (2.72%) XMPP
4 3 (2.04%) Jinja
4 3 (2.04%) JSON
4 3 (2.04%) NETCONF
4 3 (2.04%) RESTful
4 3 (2.04%) XML
4 3 (2.04%) YANG
5 2 (1.36%) ADSI
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) CSS
6 1 (0.68%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) LAMP
6 1 (0.68%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.68%) libvirt
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.97%) Replication
2 14 (9.52%) Clustering
3 11 (7.48%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.80%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.72%) PKI
7 3 (2.04%) CCTV
7 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.36%) CMDB
8 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.68%) CBDC
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) Handset
9 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) IPTV
9 1 (0.68%) NHS
9 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 53 (36.05%) Windows
2 38 (25.85%) Linux
3 24 (16.33%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.48%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (5.44%) Mac OS
5 8 (5.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (4.76%) Unix
7 6 (4.08%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (4.08%) Solaris
8 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.04%) VMS
9 2 (1.36%) Android
9 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.68%) Debian
10 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.68%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.01%) Change Management
2 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (10.20%) Migration
5 14 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 13 (8.84%) Computer Science
6 13 (8.84%) Decision-Making
7 12 (8.16%) Agile
7 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (7.48%) Data Protection
8 11 (7.48%) High Availability
9 10 (6.80%) Network Monitoring
10 8 (5.44%) DevOps
10 8 (5.44%) Mentoring
10 8 (5.44%) Mobile Device Management
10 8 (5.44%) Roadmaps
10 8 (5.44%) Storage Management
11 7 (4.76%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (4.76%) Customer Service
11 7 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.69%) Python
2 24 (16.33%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.12%) Bash
4 3 (2.04%) SQL
5 2 (1.36%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) C
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) C++
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Perl
6 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (25.85%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (18.37%) CCNP
2 27 (18.37%) Degree
3 25 (17.01%) Security Cleared
4 22 (14.97%) CCNA
5 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.44%) CCIE
8 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (4.08%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.40%) MCSE
11 4 (2.72%) CEH
11 4 (2.72%) CISM
11 4 (2.72%) CISSP
11 4 (2.72%) PMP
11 4 (2.72%) VCAP
11 4 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) GDPR
1 6 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.04%) NCSC
2 3 (2.04%) SLA
3 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.36%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 31 (21.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.16%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.48%) vSphere
5 8 (5.44%) Docker
6 7 (4.76%) Firmware
7 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.68%) Ceph
9 1 (0.68%) iptables
9 1 (0.68%) KVM
9 1 (0.68%) Lustre
9 1 (0.68%) NFS
9 1 (0.68%) Samba
9 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (19.73%) Ansible
2 20 (13.61%) Puppet
3 17 (11.56%) Terraform
4 15 (10.20%) NetBackup
5 14 (9.52%) SCCM
6 8 (5.44%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (5.44%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (4.76%) Kubernetes
8 6 (4.08%) Autotask
8 6 (4.08%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (4.08%) Netcool
8 6 (4.08%) Tivoli
8 6 (4.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (3.40%) FortiGate
9 5 (3.40%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (2.72%) Iperf
11 3 (2.04%) AppManager
11 3 (2.04%) WSUS
12 2 (1.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 52 (35.37%) Cisco
2 43 (29.25%) Microsoft
3 35 (23.81%) VMware
4 17 (11.56%) Palo Alto
5 15 (10.20%) Veritas
6 14 (9.52%) F5
7 13 (8.84%) Juniper
8 12 (8.16%) Aruba
9 10 (6.80%) Fortinet
9 10 (6.80%) Google
9 10 (6.80%) Oracle
9 10 (6.80%) SolarWinds
10 9 (6.12%) Apple
10 9 (6.12%) HP
11 8 (5.44%) Qualys
11 8 (5.44%) Splunk
12 7 (4.76%) Dell
12 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
13 6 (4.08%) EMC
13 6 (4.08%) IBM