LAN Contracts in Berkshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 91 49
Rank change year-on-year +24 -42 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing LAN 28 23 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.38% 1.34% 4.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.66% 7.62% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 43
10th Percentile £200 £155 £148
25th Percentile £275 £166 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £280 £425
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -34.12% -14.14%
75th Percentile - £631 £509
90th Percentile - £650 £577
South East median daily rate £511 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +4.87% +8.33% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £34.47 £37.50
25th Percentile - £58.44 -
Median hourly rate - £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.36% +175.00%
75th Percentile - £75.68 £75.25
90th Percentile - £76.47 £76.29
South East median hourly rate - £47.95 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -27.35% +196.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 191 302 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.23% 17.60% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 123 213
10th Percentile £293 £267 £205
25th Percentile £363 £388 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -0.59%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £590
90th Percentile £600 £648 £651
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.81% -0.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 16
10th Percentile - £56.25 £16.25
25th Percentile - £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £83.50 £73.17
Median % change year-on-year -34.13% +14.12% +232.58%
75th Percentile - £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile - - £76.55
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.64% +30.90%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Berkshire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Berkshire

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing LAN

LAN
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Slough - 11 £450 - 2
Reading +19 10 £225 -64.00% 9
Wokingham -8 5 £400 +150.00% 1
Maidenhead - 2 £200 -
LAN
South East

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (28.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (92.86%) WAN
2 19 (67.86%) MPLS
3 14 (50.00%) VPN
4 11 (39.29%) ATM
4 11 (39.29%) Ethernet
4 11 (39.29%) Frame Relay
4 11 (39.29%) GPRS
4 11 (39.29%) GSM
4 11 (39.29%) LTE
4 11 (39.29%) SAN
4 11 (39.29%) SDH
4 11 (39.29%) UMTS
4 11 (39.29%) Wireshark
5 8 (28.57%) BGP
6 5 (17.86%) Firewall
6 5 (17.86%) Wireless
7 4 (14.29%) OSPF
7 4 (14.29%) SNMP
7 4 (14.29%) TACACS
7 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 20 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Test Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) IP Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Designer
5 4 (14.29%) IP Architect
5 4 (14.29%) IP Designer
5 4 (14.29%) IP Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) IP Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) IP Network Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Field Service Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) NETCONF
1 4 (14.29%) REST
1 4 (14.29%) YANG
2 2 (7.14%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (10.71%) SCADA
6 2 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (3.57%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
1 11 (39.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (39.29%) Fault Management
2 11 (39.29%) Project Management
2 11 (39.29%) Regression Testing
2 11 (39.29%) Test Strategy
3 8 (28.57%) Network Design
3 8 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (21.43%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (17.86%) Network Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 4 (14.29%) Microservices
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 4 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (46.43%) CCNP
3 11 (39.29%) ISEB
3 11 (39.29%) ISTQB
3 11 (39.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (28.57%) CCIE
4 8 (28.57%) JNCIE
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
6 2 (7.14%) CCNA
6 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Cisco
2 15 (53.57%) Juniper
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.29%) F5
4 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 4 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.14%) Zscaler