LAN Contracts in the East of England

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing LAN 18 52 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.92% 2.67% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.52% 14.25% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 50
10th Percentile £347 £272 £183
25th Percentile £481 £273 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - +60.00%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £564
90th Percentile £608 £644 £600
England median daily rate £470 £459 £427
% change year-on-year +2.40% +7.49% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - £58.00 £21.50
25th Percentile - £62.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £12.86 £70.00 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -81.63% +146.39% +35.29%
75th Percentile £14.31 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £15.18 £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.15 £65.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -64.66% +187.91% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 276 365 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.09% 18.75% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 215 281
10th Percentile £200 £210 £193
25th Percentile £255 £347 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 33 54
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £57.00 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +264.80% -13.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £36.77
90th Percentile - £73.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hertfordshire -20 8 £513 +86.36% 14
Essex +5 3 £625 +69.49% 8
Bedfordshire +2 3 £525 +281.82% 2
Cambridgeshire -14 2 £525 +10.53% 9
Norfolk - 2 £193 - 2
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) WAN
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) SD-WAN
3 6 (33.33%) WLAN
4 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (22.22%) Wireless
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (11.11%) BGP
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (11.11%) Network Security
6 2 (11.11%) OSPF
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Network Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Network Technical Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) WAN Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Domain Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Help Desk Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) NHS
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Edge Computing
1 5 (27.78%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (16.67%) Presales
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (16.67%) Sales Enablement
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) ECDL
1 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) CCSA
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) COBIT
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
6 1 (5.56%) Aruba
6 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) Sparx