LAN Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Local Area Network (LAN)
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 14 50
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 3.94% 10.77% 35.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 20.00% 65.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 48
10th Percentile £538 £428 £476
25th Percentile £595 £432 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £471 £608
Median % change year-on-year +46.42% -22.43% +44.64%
75th Percentile - £588 £641
90th Percentile - - £672
Cumbria median daily rate £690 £471 £625
% change year-on-year +46.42% -24.60% +48.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

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 Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 70 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 35.43% 53.85% 54.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 71
10th Percentile £455 £421 £486
25th Percentile £475 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -15.63% +42.01%
75th Percentile £559 £586 £638
90th Percentile £636 £588 £672
Cumbria median daily rate £519 £506 £615
% change year-on-year +2.42% -17.68% +46.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £38.39
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year - +21.27% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 £44.07
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.23
% change year-on-year - +21.27% -

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

LAN job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

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Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Barrow-in-Furness

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Barrow-in-Furness over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Barrow-in-Furness

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Skype
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Disk Encryption
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow