LAN Jobs in the Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 172 144
Rank change year-on-year +66 -28 -20
Permanent jobs citing LAN 263 170 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.24% 1.79% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.56% 9.82% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 221 143 241
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,250 £52,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,588 1,732 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.54% 18.28% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 735 1,099
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,100 £25,450
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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

LAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +81 205 £40,313 -4.58% 36
East Midlands -23 49 £45,000 +21.27% 15
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 37 (14.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 44 (16.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Shopify
4 1 (0.38%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.04%) Microsoft 365
2 70 (26.62%) Azure
3 22 (8.37%) Entra ID
4 9 (3.42%) AWS
5 5 (1.90%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.14%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.14%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.76%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.76%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.76%) SaaS
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) GCP
8 1 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 226 (85.93%) WAN
2 88 (33.46%) Firewall
3 73 (27.76%) WLAN
4 66 (25.10%) SD-WAN
5 62 (23.57%) TCP/IP
6 61 (23.19%) DNS
7 58 (22.05%) MPLS
8 55 (20.91%) DHCP
9 45 (17.11%) BGP
10 44 (16.73%) Wireless
11 43 (16.35%) OSPF
12 34 (12.93%) VPN
13 32 (12.17%) VLAN
14 27 (10.27%) Wi-Fi
15 26 (9.89%) VoIP
16 25 (9.51%) SAN
17 16 (6.08%) Network Security
18 14 (5.32%) Intrusion Detection
19 10 (3.80%) Ethernet
20 9 (3.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (0.76%) MySQL
5 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.65%) Finance
3 24 (9.13%) Retail
4 17 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.46%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.18%) Law
6 11 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.04%) Local Government
8 5 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Electronics
11 2 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 66 (25.10%) Analyst
2 44 (16.73%) Network Analyst
3 42 (15.97%) Network Operations Analyst
3 42 (15.97%) Operations Analyst
4 34 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.89%) IT Support
5 26 (9.89%) Senior
6 24 (9.13%) Network Engineer
6 24 (9.13%) Support Engineer
7 22 (8.37%) Administrator
8 20 (7.60%) IT Technician
9 17 (6.46%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.32%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (5.32%) IT Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) Support Technician
11 12 (4.56%) Help Desk Analyst
12 11 (4.18%) Developer
12 11 (4.18%) IT Support Technician
12 11 (4.18%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.80%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.18%) AngularJS
1 11 (4.18%) CSS
1 11 (4.18%) Express.js
1 11 (4.18%) HTML
1 11 (4.18%) HTML5
1 11 (4.18%) Node.js
1 11 (4.18%) React
1 11 (4.18%) XML
2 2 (0.76%) LDAP
2 2 (0.76%) SAML
2 2 (0.76%) ServiceStack
2 2 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.65%) Driving Licence
2 20 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.18%) Wiki
5 8 (3.04%) IoT
6 7 (2.66%) CCTV
6 7 (2.66%) FMCG
7 6 (2.28%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.52%) Clustering
9 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.52%) PKI
10 3 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) Replication
11 2 (0.76%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 95 (36.12%) Windows
2 54 (20.53%) Windows Server
3 26 (9.89%) Windows 10
4 13 (4.94%) Windows 7
5 12 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (3.42%) Linux
7 9 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.28%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.52%) Android
9 4 (1.52%) CentOS
9 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.52%) VMS
10 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.76%) SUSE
11 2 (0.76%) Unix
11 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (10.65%) Customer Service
4 25 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (8.37%) Patch Management
6 20 (7.60%) Change Management
7 19 (7.22%) CRM
7 19 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (7.22%) ITIL
8 18 (6.84%) Network Monitoring
9 16 (6.08%) Project Delivery
10 14 (5.32%) Asset Management
10 14 (5.32%) ERP
10 14 (5.32%) Project Management
10 14 (5.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (4.94%) Migration
11 13 (4.94%) Roadmaps
12 12 (4.56%) Critical Thinking
12 12 (4.56%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.83%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.69%) SQL
3 24 (9.13%) Python
4 11 (4.18%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.18%) JSX
4 11 (4.18%) Perl
4 11 (4.18%) PHP
4 11 (4.18%) VB
5 6 (2.28%) Bash
6 2 (0.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (23.57%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (19.77%) CCNP
3 50 (19.01%) CCNA
4 44 (16.73%) Degree
5 38 (14.45%) CCIE
6 33 (12.55%) CCDP
7 9 (3.42%) DBS Check
7 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.04%) MCSE
8 8 (3.04%) Security Cleared
9 7 (2.66%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 6 (2.28%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.90%) JNCIA
12 3 (1.14%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.14%) CCDA
12 3 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.14%) MCSA
13 2 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.66%) SLA
3 6 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (1.90%) NIST
5 4 (1.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 96 (36.50%) Active Directory
2 36 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.65%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.42%) vSphere
5 7 (2.66%) Firmware
5 7 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.52%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (8.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.90%) Autotask
3 4 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.52%) SCCM
3 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.14%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.14%) Terraform
5 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.76%) Nagios
5 2 (0.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 113 (42.97%) Microsoft
2 54 (20.53%) Cisco
3 50 (19.01%) VMware
4 29 (11.03%) Juniper
5 16 (6.08%) Aruba
6 15 (5.70%) Veeam
7 14 (5.32%) HP
7 14 (5.32%) Meraki
7 14 (5.32%) Sophos
8 12 (4.56%) Citrix
9 11 (4.18%) Dell
9 11 (4.18%) Ruckus Wireless
10 10 (3.80%) Apple
11 8 (3.04%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.04%) Ekahau
12 7 (2.66%) Nokia
12 7 (2.66%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.28%) Ericsson
13 6 (2.28%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.90%) F5