LAN Jobs in the South East

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 188 184
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -25
Permanent jobs citing LAN 250 256 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.49% 1.75% 2.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.09% 10.06% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 231 190 316
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £28,175
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,751 2,544 3,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.39% 17.42% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 1,495 1,863
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £59,000 £63,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the South East

LAN
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hampshire +11 91 £45,000 +52.54% 16
Thames Valley -11 72 £42,000 -4.81% 15
Surrey +35 51 £49,000 +40.00% 4
Berkshire +30 42 £41,000 +26.15% 9
Oxfordshire +19 28 £41,250 -13.16% 3
Kent -31 19 £31,000 -22.50% 9
East Sussex +24 9 £55,000 +22.22% 2
West Sussex +33 6 £40,000 +3.23% 1
Buckinghamshire -55 3 £45,000 -14.29% 3
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (13.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.40%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 52 (20.80%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.20%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (33.20%) Azure
3 35 (14.00%) AWS
4 23 (9.20%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.40%) SaaS
6 10 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.20%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.00%) IaaS
9 4 (1.60%) PaaS
10 3 (1.20%) Dropbox
10 3 (1.20%) Google Drive
10 3 (1.20%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.80%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 188 (75.20%) WAN
2 99 (39.60%) Firewall
3 68 (27.20%) Wireless
4 57 (22.80%) Wi-Fi
5 53 (21.20%) VPN
6 45 (18.00%) TCP/IP
7 43 (17.20%) DNS
8 31 (12.40%) DHCP
9 30 (12.00%) VLAN
10 21 (8.40%) Network Security
11 18 (7.20%) OSPF
12 17 (6.80%) VoIP
13 15 (6.00%) SD-WAN
13 15 (6.00%) WLAN
14 13 (5.20%) Internet
15 11 (4.40%) BGP
15 11 (4.40%) SAN
16 10 (4.00%) NAS
16 10 (4.00%) SSL
17 9 (3.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) MySQL
2 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.40%) InfluxDB
3 6 (2.40%) MariaDB
3 6 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.40%) JIRA
3 5 (2.00%) Git
4 4 (1.60%) MSBuild
4 4 (1.60%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (8.40%) Telecoms
4 17 (6.80%) Finance
5 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Advertising
6 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.20%) Legal
8 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.60%) Automotive
9 4 (1.60%) Games
10 3 (1.20%) Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Marketing
11 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (25.60%) Network Engineer
2 53 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (17.20%) Support Engineer
4 31 (12.40%) Senior
5 22 (8.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (8.00%) Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) IT Support
8 16 (6.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 15 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support
9 15 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 15 (6.00%) Project Engineer
10 14 (5.60%) IT Engineer
11 13 (5.20%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (5.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Consultant
12 11 (4.40%) Desktop Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Desktop Support
12 11 (4.40%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) .NET
2 2 (0.80%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.40%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.40%) LDAP
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.80%) Driving Licence
3 18 (7.20%) PKI
4 13 (5.20%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.80%) CCTV
5 12 (4.80%) NHS
6 11 (4.40%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.00%) PMI
9 4 (1.60%) Clustering
9 4 (1.60%) Replication
9 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.20%) EPoS
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.80%) IoT
11 2 (0.80%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 131 (52.40%) Windows
2 58 (23.20%) Windows Server
3 44 (17.60%) Windows 10
4 23 (9.20%) Linux
5 22 (8.80%) Mac OS
6 16 (6.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (6.00%) Apple iOS
8 14 (5.60%) Windows 7
8 14 (5.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (5.20%) Android
9 13 (5.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (3.20%) Ubuntu
11 6 (2.40%) CentOS
11 6 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (2.40%) Windows 8
12 5 (2.00%) Windows XP
13 4 (1.60%) Mac OS X
13 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.40%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (24.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 59 (23.60%) Customer Service
4 35 (14.00%) ITIL
5 24 (9.60%) Service Delivery
6 20 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (7.60%) Information Security
8 18 (7.20%) Incident Management
9 16 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (6.40%) Presales
10 15 (6.00%) Mentoring
11 14 (5.60%) Project Delivery
12 12 (4.80%) Project Management
13 11 (4.40%) Customer Requirements
13 11 (4.40%) Decision-Making
13 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Management
13 11 (4.40%) Mathematics
13 11 (4.40%) Roadmaps
13 11 (4.40%) Time Management
14 10 (4.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.80%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.20%) Bash
2 18 (7.20%) Python
3 6 (2.40%) SQL
4 5 (2.00%) Perl
5 1 (0.40%) Korn
5 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (10.80%) Degree
3 25 (10.00%) CCNA
4 21 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (8.40%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.20%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.80%) DBS Check
7 11 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.00%) MCP
9 8 (3.20%) CCIE
9 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.20%) MCITP
9 8 (3.20%) MCSE
9 8 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.40%) CCNP
10 6 (2.40%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.00%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.60%) JNCIA
13 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (4.00%) GDPR
2 10 (4.00%) SLA
3 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 50 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (17.60%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.80%) Firmware
4 12 (4.80%) vSphere
5 10 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.80%) Docker
7 2 (0.80%) KVM
7 2 (0.80%) QEMU
7 2 (0.80%) Xen
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
8 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (6.40%) SCCM
3 13 (5.20%) FortiGate
4 10 (4.00%) Ansible
5 9 (3.60%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.40%) SmoothWall
6 6 (2.40%) Terraform
6 6 (2.40%) VxRail
7 5 (2.00%) Puppet
7 5 (2.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 4 (1.60%) WSUS
9 3 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.40%) Nessus
11 1 (0.40%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 132 (52.80%) Microsoft
2 85 (34.00%) VMware
3 68 (27.20%) Cisco
4 31 (12.40%) Aruba
5 27 (10.80%) HP
6 25 (10.00%) Juniper
7 18 (7.20%) Meraki
8 17 (6.80%) Fortinet
9 16 (6.40%) Google
10 13 (5.20%) Dell
11 9 (3.60%) Ubiquiti
12 7 (2.80%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.40%) Apple
13 6 (2.40%) Citrix
13 6 (2.40%) Draytek
13 6 (2.40%) Mitel
13 6 (2.40%) Veeam
14 5 (2.00%) BT
15 4 (1.60%) WatchGuard
15 4 (1.60%) Webroot