VLAN Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 409 579
Rank change year-on-year -15 +170 -56
Contract jobs citing VLAN 151 297 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 4.17% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 185 162
10th Percentile £190 £220 £223
25th Percentile £263 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +9.42%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £544
90th Percentile £663 £688 £609
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £403
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.80% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £24.75 £18.65
25th Percentile - £30.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.63 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -1.94% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £35.81 £47.63
90th Percentile - £44.14 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £53.19 £32.25
% change year-on-year - +64.91% +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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 15 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 1 June 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 -41 136 £413 -12.70% 121
UK excluding London -26 91 £375 -16.67% 100
London +18 42 £488 -2.50% 23
Work from Home +55 39 £519 +3.75% 50
South East -2 36 £263 -49.88% 28
North of England +17 31 £514 +37.07% 19
Yorkshire +23 17 £525 +5.00% 9
North West +11 13 £220 -41.33% 6
South West -8 12 £575 +28.06% 18
Midlands -4 10 £288 -20.69% 20
West Midlands -3 6 £200 -61.54% 13
East of England +3 4 £400 -42.86% 7
East Midlands -1 4 £325 - 7
North East +11 1 £400 +190.91% 4
Wales +11 1 - - 7

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 16 (10.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.97%) Confluence
3 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.17%) Azure
2 29 (19.21%) AWS
3 18 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.61%) GCP
5 6 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.97%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.31%) IaaS
6 5 (3.31%) OCI
6 5 (3.31%) PaaS
6 5 (3.31%) Rubrik
6 5 (3.31%) SaaS
7 3 (1.99%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.66%) GitHub
9 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (54.30%) Firewall
2 59 (39.07%) VPN
3 56 (37.09%) TCP/IP
4 53 (35.10%) DHCP
5 49 (32.45%) DNS
6 42 (27.81%) LAN
7 39 (25.83%) WAN
8 37 (24.50%) BGP
8 37 (24.50%) OSPF
9 29 (19.21%) Wireless
10 24 (15.89%) Network Security
10 24 (15.89%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (13.25%) SAN
12 19 (12.58%) MPLS
13 16 (10.60%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (10.60%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (9.93%) HSRP
14 15 (9.93%) NAS
14 15 (9.93%) VoIP
15 13 (8.61%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) MySQL
2 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.66%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.66%) Power BI
3 1 (0.66%) Redis
3 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.28%) JIRA
2 10 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.96%) Git
4 5 (3.31%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.66%) Darcs
5 1 (0.66%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.66%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.66%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.25%) Finance
4 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.99%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.99%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Automotive
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 2 (1.32%) French Language
9 2 (1.32%) Portuguese Language
9 2 (1.32%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Aviation
10 1 (0.66%) German Language
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.15%) Network Engineer
2 21 (13.91%) Support Engineer
3 15 (9.93%) 2nd Line Support
3 15 (9.93%) Senior
4 14 (9.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (8.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) IT Support
7 10 (6.62%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 8 (5.30%) Network Support
9 8 (5.30%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Analyst
10 7 (4.64%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.97%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Architect
11 6 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.64%) LDAP
3 4 (2.65%) XMPP
4 3 (1.99%) Jinja
4 3 (1.99%) JSON
4 3 (1.99%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.99%) RESTful
4 3 (1.99%) XML
4 3 (1.99%) YANG
5 2 (1.32%) ADSI
6 1 (0.66%) .NET
6 1 (0.66%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.66%) CSS
6 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.66%) HTML
6 1 (0.66%) LAMP
6 1 (0.66%) libvirt
6 1 (0.66%) React
6 1 (0.66%) REST
6 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.91%) Replication
2 13 (8.61%) Clustering
3 12 (7.95%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.96%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.65%) PKI
7 3 (1.99%) CCTV
7 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.32%) CMDB
8 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.66%) CBDC
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 49 (32.45%) Windows
2 36 (23.84%) Linux
3 20 (13.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.28%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (5.30%) Mac OS
7 7 (4.64%) Unix
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.31%) Solaris
8 5 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.99%) VMS
11 2 (1.32%) Android
12 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.66%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.22%) Change Management
2 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (9.93%) Migration
4 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (8.61%) Computer Science
5 13 (8.61%) Decision-Making
5 13 (8.61%) Service Delivery
6 11 (7.28%) Customer Service
6 11 (7.28%) Data Protection
7 10 (6.62%) High Availability
7 10 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (5.96%) Agile
8 9 (5.96%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (5.30%) Mentoring
9 8 (5.30%) Network Monitoring
9 8 (5.30%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (5.30%) Validation
10 7 (4.64%) DevOps
10 7 (4.64%) Roadmaps
10 7 (4.64%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.56%) Python
2 22 (14.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.30%) Bash
4 3 (1.99%) SQL
5 2 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (0.66%) C
6 1 (0.66%) C#
6 1 (0.66%) C++
6 1 (0.66%) Go
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.66%) Perl
6 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (25.17%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (17.88%) CCNP
3 26 (17.22%) Degree
3 26 (17.22%) Security Cleared
4 22 (14.57%) CCNA
5 12 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.62%) CCIE
7 9 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.64%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.31%) MCSE
10 4 (2.65%) APMP
10 4 (2.65%) CEH
10 4 (2.65%) CISSP
10 4 (2.65%) PMP
10 4 (2.65%) VCAP
10 4 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.31%) GDPR
1 5 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.99%) NCSC
2 3 (1.99%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (25.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (23.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.27%) Hyper-V
4 13 (8.61%) vSphere
5 7 (4.64%) Docker
5 7 (4.64%) Firmware
6 5 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.66%) Ceph
8 1 (0.66%) iptables
8 1 (0.66%) KVM
8 1 (0.66%) Lustre
8 1 (0.66%) NFS
8 1 (0.66%) Samba
8 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (18.54%) Ansible
2 20 (13.25%) Puppet
3 18 (11.92%) SCCM
4 16 (10.60%) Terraform
5 15 (9.93%) NetBackup
6 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (5.30%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (5.30%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (3.97%) Autotask
8 6 (3.97%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.97%) Nessus
8 6 (3.97%) WSUS
9 5 (3.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (3.31%) Netcool
9 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (3.31%) Tivoli
9 5 (3.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (2.65%) Iperf
11 3 (1.99%) AppManager
12 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 57 (37.75%) Cisco
2 44 (29.14%) Microsoft
3 42 (27.81%) VMware
4 19 (12.58%) Palo Alto
5 16 (10.60%) F5
6 15 (9.93%) Veritas
7 12 (7.95%) Juniper
8 11 (7.28%) Apple
8 11 (7.28%) Qualys
9 10 (6.62%) Aruba
9 10 (6.62%) Google
9 10 (6.62%) SolarWinds
10 9 (5.96%) Fortinet
10 9 (5.96%) Oracle
11 8 (5.30%) Meraki
12 7 (4.64%) HP
12 7 (4.64%) Splunk
13 6 (3.97%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.97%) Dell
13 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow