LAN Contracts in the Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 74 98
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing LAN 78 96 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.86% 2.79% 2.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.95% 18.75% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 86
10th Percentile £200 £220 £163
25th Percentile £363 £300 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £738 £500 £450
90th Percentile £775 £569 £563
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £20.73 - £19.08
25th Percentile £21.25 - £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.88
90th Percentile - - £23.40
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +0.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 489 512 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.93% 14.88% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 339 400
10th Percentile £200 £250 £166
25th Percentile £312 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +13.21% -0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 33
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.54
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.51
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.15
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +32 65 £475 +11.76% 43
East Midlands +1 11 £555 +58.57% 17
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.28%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.28%) RMDS
1 1 (1.28%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.56%) AWS
3 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (89.74%) WAN
2 22 (28.21%) VPN
3 21 (26.92%) Firewall
4 18 (23.08%) MPLS
4 18 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (19.23%) DHCP
6 14 (17.95%) DNS
6 14 (17.95%) SD-WAN
7 13 (16.67%) VoIP
8 12 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (12.82%) WLAN
10 9 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
10 9 (11.54%) PBX
10 9 (11.54%) Wireless
11 8 (10.26%) BGP
12 7 (8.97%) Junos
13 6 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (7.69%) IPsec
14 5 (6.41%) Ethernet
14 5 (6.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Telecoms
3 10 (12.82%) Finance
4 6 (7.69%) Back Office
5 5 (6.41%) Legal
6 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Advertising
9 1 (1.28%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 26 (33.33%) Architect
2 18 (23.08%) Network Architect
3 17 (21.79%) Network Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Network Support
6 6 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Technical Support
6 6 (7.69%) Technical Support Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
9 3 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) Web Services
2 2 (2.56%) LDAP
2 2 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.28%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.64%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.13%) AS400
2 4 (5.13%) Clustering
2 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) CCTV
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) PKI
4 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.21%) Windows
2 9 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.69%) Linux
4 5 (6.41%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.13%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.28%) Android
8 1 (1.28%) CentOS
8 1 (1.28%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.67%) Analytics
1 13 (16.67%) ITIL
2 12 (15.38%) Network Architecture
3 11 (14.10%) Project Delivery
3 11 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (12.82%) Architectural Design
4 10 (12.82%) Programme Management
5 9 (11.54%) Data Analytics
5 9 (11.54%) Performance Management
5 9 (11.54%) SOA
5 9 (11.54%) Storage Management
6 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.97%) Agile
7 7 (8.97%) Migration
7 7 (8.97%) Technical Architecture
8 6 (7.69%) Change Management
8 6 (7.69%) Load Balancing
8 6 (7.69%) Network Design
8 6 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 6 (7.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 15 (19.23%) CCNP
4 14 (17.95%) CCNA
5 12 (15.38%) Degree
6 9 (11.54%) CCIE
6 9 (11.54%) CCIE Data Center
6 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.41%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.28%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.28%) PMP
8 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.85%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.56%) vSphere
6 1 (1.28%) Docker
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) FortiGate
1 5 (6.41%) OpenView
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.13%) SCCM
3 3 (3.85%) Autotask
3 3 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.56%) SCOM
4 2 (2.56%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.56%) VxRail
5 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.28%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.28%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (52.56%) Cisco
2 13 (16.67%) Juniper
2 13 (16.67%) VMware
3 10 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.97%) Aruba
4 7 (8.97%) SAP
5 5 (6.41%) CheckPoint
5 5 (6.41%) F5
5 5 (6.41%) Infoblox
5 5 (6.41%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.41%) Symantec
5 5 (6.41%) Zscaler
6 4 (5.13%) Apple
7 3 (3.85%) Datto
7 3 (3.85%) McAfee
8 2 (2.56%) Databricks
8 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.28%) Veeam
9 1 (1.28%) WatchGuard