LAN Contracts in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 45 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing LAN 21 30 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.74% 3.32% 3.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.00% 20.41% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 26
10th Percentile £190 £298 £168
25th Percentile £253 £314 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £250
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +68.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £419
90th Percentile £628 £700 £425
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £374
% change year-on-year +11.76% +13.79% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 150 147 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.58% 16.26% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 103
10th Percentile £205 £313 £163
25th Percentile £290 £394 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £500
90th Percentile £600 £731 £593
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £19.95 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -25.00% +27.11%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (90.48%) WAN
2 9 (42.86%) Firewall
2 9 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) VLAN
4 3 (14.29%) VoIP
5 2 (9.52%) BGP
5 2 (9.52%) DHCP
5 2 (9.52%) DNS
5 2 (9.52%) MPLS
5 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) Ethereal
6 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.76%) SAN
6 1 (4.76%) Wireless
6 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Field Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Network Support
5 2 (9.52%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Field Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Clustering
1 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Agile
1 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
2 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
3 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 3 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Project Management
3 3 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 2 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Change Management
4 2 (9.52%) Data Science
4 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (9.52%) Risk Register
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) CCNA
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) CCNP
4 2 (9.52%) JNCIS
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) FortiGate
2 3 (14.29%) Autotask
2 3 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) OpenView
3 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Cisco
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Aruba
2 5 (23.81%) F5
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Apple
3 3 (14.29%) Datto
4 2 (9.52%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) Sophos