Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 209 275
Rank change year-on-year +46 +66 -63
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,791 1,732 2,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 1.78% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.24% 11.18% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,503 1,273 1,905
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,550 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,151 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,125 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% -0.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN.

Salary trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +50 1,651 £45,000 - 322
UK excluding London +19 1,271 £42,500 +0.89% 261
Work from Home +42 619 £50,000 +5.26% 135
London +77 459 £55,000 - 82
North of England +26 385 £42,500 -5.56% 89
Midlands +47 252 £42,000 +10.53% 48
South East -6 234 £45,000 +12.50% 44
North West +29 210 £42,500 -5.56% 57
West Midlands +66 204 £40,313 -1.68% 31
South West +23 186 £42,000 -0.59% 32
Yorkshire +66 154 £42,500 -5.56% 28
East of England +25 148 £45,000 +12.50% 29
Scotland -72 45 £35,000 -11.39% 9
East Midlands -38 39 £45,000 +21.27% 17
North East -16 37 £37,750 -11.18% 4
Wales +15 35 £40,500 -10.00% 13
Northern Ireland +5 7 £37,500 -9.09% 4
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

LAN
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
1 218 (12.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (10.61%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.01%) SharePoint 2010
3 18 (1.01%) SharePoint 2013
4 17 (0.95%) IIS
5 10 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.50%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) Apache
10 4 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.11%) Confluence
12 2 (0.11%) Moodle
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 202 (11.28%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.17%) Revit
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.056%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 672 (37.52%) Azure
2 655 (36.57%) Microsoft 365
3 203 (11.33%) Entra ID
4 187 (10.44%) AWS
5 63 (3.52%) OneDrive
6 61 (3.41%) SaaS
7 58 (3.24%) IaaS
8 50 (2.79%) GCP
9 48 (2.68%) PaaS
10 47 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
11 33 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.40%) Power Platform
13 23 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 16 (0.89%) Mimecast
16 14 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (0.78%) Rubrik
17 12 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
18 11 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,506 (84.09%) WAN
2 743 (41.49%) Firewall
3 462 (25.80%) VPN
4 434 (24.23%) Wi-Fi
5 381 (21.27%) Wireless
6 357 (19.93%) DNS
7 346 (19.32%) TCP/IP
8 319 (17.81%) DHCP
9 246 (13.74%) Network Security
10 243 (13.57%) SD-WAN
11 236 (13.18%) WLAN
12 212 (11.84%) MPLS
13 186 (10.39%) VLAN
14 176 (9.83%) Internet
15 162 (9.05%) BGP
16 152 (8.49%) OSPF
17 124 (6.92%) SAN
18 114 (6.37%) VoIP
19 69 (3.85%) IPsec
20 66 (3.69%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.06%) MySQL
3 15 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.73%) Power BI
6 10 (0.56%) DB2
7 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.39%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.28%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.28%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) QlikView
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.17%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (0.89%) JIRA
2 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.39%) Git
4 4 (0.22%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 527 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 178 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (9.66%) Finance
4 112 (6.25%) Retail
5 108 (6.03%) Telecoms
6 83 (4.63%) Law
7 68 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 50 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (2.68%) Public Sector
10 44 (2.46%) Legal
11 39 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.23%) Banking
14 18 (1.01%) Local Government
15 16 (0.89%) Marketing
16 15 (0.84%) Police
17 13 (0.73%) Advertising
18 11 (0.61%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 383 (21.38%) Network Engineer
2 263 (14.68%) Analyst
3 237 (13.23%) Senior
4 233 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 154 (8.60%) Support Engineer
6 151 (8.43%) IT Support
7 113 (6.31%) IT Engineer
8 90 (5.03%) Architect
9 83 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
10 82 (4.58%) IT Analyst
11 77 (4.30%) Network Analyst
12 70 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support
13 68 (3.80%) Lead
14 65 (3.63%) Service Analyst
14 65 (3.63%) Support Analyst
15 61 (3.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 59 (3.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 59 (3.29%) IT Manager
16 59 (3.29%) Service Desk Analyst
17 58 (3.24%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.62%) 802.1X
2 26 (1.45%) LDAP
3 10 (0.56%) HTML
3 10 (0.56%) SAML
4 8 (0.45%) .NET
4 8 (0.45%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (0.45%) XML
5 5 (0.28%) EDI
5 5 (0.28%) XMPP
6 4 (0.22%) Akka
6 4 (0.22%) Web Services
7 3 (0.17%) Middleware
8 2 (0.11%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.11%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.11%) LAMP
8 2 (0.11%) Node.js
8 2 (0.11%) React
8 2 (0.11%) RESTful
8 2 (0.11%) ServiceStack
8 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 279 (15.58%) Data Centre
2 116 (6.48%) Management Information System
3 85 (4.75%) Driving Licence
4 55 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.79%) PKI
7 47 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.01%) CCTV
9 29 (1.62%) Client/Server
9 29 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (1.56%) Cyberattack
11 26 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 24 (1.34%) IoT
13 20 (1.12%) NHS
14 18 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (0.89%) Clustering
15 16 (0.89%) Replication
16 15 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 15 (0.84%) Fat Client
16 15 (0.84%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 779 (43.50%) Windows
2 378 (21.11%) Windows Server
3 194 (10.83%) Linux
4 174 (9.72%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.58%) Android
6 77 (4.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 74 (4.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 61 (3.41%) Mac OS
9 57 (3.18%) Apple iOS
10 56 (3.13%) Ubuntu
11 51 (2.85%) VMS
12 50 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
13 37 (2.07%) Windows 7
14 29 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 24 (1.34%) CentOS
16 21 (1.17%) Unix
17 18 (1.01%) VyOS
18 15 (0.84%) Mac OS X
19 14 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
20 9 (0.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (18.37%) ITIL
2 323 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 312 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
4 261 (14.57%) Customer Service
5 190 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
6 139 (7.76%) Agile
7 138 (7.71%) Roadmaps
8 126 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 108 (6.03%) Project Delivery
10 107 (5.97%) Project Management
10 107 (5.97%) Service Delivery
11 106 (5.92%) Mentoring
12 103 (5.75%) Migration
13 91 (5.08%) Information Security
14 89 (4.97%) Change Management
15 87 (4.86%) Presales
16 76 (4.24%) Service Management
16 76 (4.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 73 (4.08%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 176 (9.83%) PowerShell
2 110 (6.14%) SQL
3 84 (4.69%) Python
4 44 (2.46%) Bash
5 19 (1.06%) Perl
6 10 (0.56%) Java
7 6 (0.34%) C#
8 5 (0.28%) PHP
9 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.11%) Bicep
10 2 (0.11%) Korn
10 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.056%) VBA
Qualifications
1 319 (17.81%) Cisco Certification
2 250 (13.96%) Degree
3 210 (11.73%) CCNA
4 169 (9.44%) Security Cleared
5 160 (8.93%) CCNP
6 84 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 76 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 72 (4.02%) DV Cleared
9 69 (3.85%) CCIE
10 52 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (2.79%) CISSP
12 44 (2.46%) DBS Check
13 43 (2.40%) CCDP
14 40 (2.23%) MCSE
15 39 (2.18%) JNCIA
16 33 (1.84%) Azure Certification
17 26 (1.45%) A+ Certification
18 23 (1.28%) AWS Certification
18 23 (1.28%) PMI Certification
19 21 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.03%) SLA
2 59 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (1.56%) NIST
5 23 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 17 (0.95%) GDPR
7 15 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (0.78%) QA
9 10 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.34%) NCSC
11 5 (0.28%) IASME
11 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.17%) COBIT
12 3 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.11%) ITGC
13 2 (0.11%) PMO
14 1 (0.056%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 694 (38.75%) Active Directory
2 327 (18.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 220 (12.28%) Hyper-V
4 77 (4.30%) vSphere
5 58 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 29 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
8 20 (1.12%) XenApp
9 19 (1.06%) Firmware
10 17 (0.95%) XenDesktop
11 11 (0.61%) Docker
12 8 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.17%) NFS
16 3 (0.17%) QEMU
16 3 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 192 (10.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (4.69%) SCCM
3 73 (4.08%) Ansible
4 65 (3.63%) Terraform
5 48 (2.68%) WSUS
6 31 (1.73%) FortiGate
7 23 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.84%) Autotask
9 15 (0.84%) Nmap
9 15 (0.84%) Puppet
10 12 (0.67%) SmoothWall
11 11 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
12 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.50%) SCVMM
14 8 (0.45%) McAfee ePO
15 7 (0.39%) Backup Exec
15 7 (0.39%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 771 (43.05%) Microsoft
2 591 (33.00%) Cisco
3 479 (26.74%) VMware
4 177 (9.88%) Juniper
5 161 (8.99%) Fortinet
5 161 (8.99%) Meraki
6 122 (6.81%) Aruba
7 117 (6.53%) HP
8 109 (6.09%) Palo Alto
9 101 (5.64%) Citrix
10 89 (4.97%) Veeam
11 77 (4.30%) SolarWinds
12 71 (3.96%) CheckPoint
13 62 (3.46%) Dell
14 58 (3.24%) Ruckus Wireless
15 55 (3.07%) Google
16 43 (2.40%) Apple
17 39 (2.18%) Nokia
18 31 (1.73%) Sophos
19 30 (1.68%) F5