LAN Contracts in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing LAN 20 30 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.67% 3.39% 3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.71% 20.27% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 27
10th Percentile £190 £293 £168
25th Percentile £200 £313 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £250
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% +66.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £413
90th Percentile £645 £700 £425
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £420 £374
% change year-on-year +10.24% +12.45% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 136 148 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.16% 16.72% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 70 100
10th Percentile £200 £313 £162
25th Percentile £290 £383 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £497
90th Percentile £600 £731 £593
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £19.95 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -25.00% +48.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +19.10% -1.47% +13.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) WAN
2 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) VoIP
5 2 (10.00%) BGP
5 2 (10.00%) MPLS
5 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.00%) DHCP
6 1 (5.00%) DNS
6 1 (5.00%) Ethereal
6 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (5.00%) SAN
6 1 (5.00%) Wireless
6 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Clustering
1 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (10.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) CCNA
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) JNCIS
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (15.00%) Autotask
2 3 (15.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) OpenView
3 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Aruba
2 5 (25.00%) F5
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Apple
4 3 (15.00%) Datto
5 2 (10.00%) Databricks
6 1 (5.00%) Commvault
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp
6 1 (5.00%) Sophos