LAN Contracts in Bedfordshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.55% 1.07% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.81% 11.11% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £344 £113 -
25th Percentile £372 £121 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £138 £500
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -72.50% +212.50%
75th Percentile £497 £151 -
90th Percentile £521 £156 £525
East of England median daily rate £525 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +13.51% +15.63% +45.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

LAN 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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 14.34% 9.63% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 20
10th Percentile £260 £150 £185
25th Percentile £300 £160 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £275 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -31.25% -7.25%
75th Percentile £497 £438 £491
90th Percentile £570 £618 £538
East of England median daily rate £408 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -14.21% +11.76% +24.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile £34.63 - £68.75
90th Percentile £46.10 - £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +8.43% +167.74% -15.16%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Bedfordshire

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Bedfordshire

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Bedfordshire

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Bedfordshire

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Luton - 3 £525 -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £350 -
LAN
East of England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds