LAN Contracts in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 42 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing LAN 23 34 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.00% 3.82% 3.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.56% 21.52% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 29
10th Percentile £190 £263 £169
25th Percentile £253 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £250
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +50.00% -39.39%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £400
90th Percentile £628 £700 £425
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £375 £313
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £19.95 - £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 131 158 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.10% 17.77% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 117
10th Percentile £200 £300 £172
25th Percentile £269 £366 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £538
90th Percentile £600 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £451 £413
% change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.85 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -25.00% +48.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%

LAN
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 16 June 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 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (91.30%) WAN
2 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 10 (43.48%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (26.09%) VPN
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (13.04%) DHCP
4 3 (13.04%) DNS
4 3 (13.04%) Ethereal
4 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
4 3 (13.04%) VLAN
4 3 (13.04%) VoIP
4 3 (13.04%) Wireless
4 3 (13.04%) Wireshark
5 2 (8.70%) BGP
5 2 (8.70%) MPLS
5 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
5 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.35%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Network Support
3 4 (17.39%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Field Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
1 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
1 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
2 4 (17.39%) Agile
2 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
3 3 (13.04%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Quality Management
4 2 (8.70%) Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (8.70%) Business Strategy
4 2 (8.70%) Data Science
4 2 (8.70%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.70%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (8.70%) Risk Register
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) CCNA
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) JNCIS
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) FortiGate
2 3 (13.04%) Autotask
2 3 (13.04%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) OpenView
2 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Aruba
2 6 (26.09%) F5
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 4 (17.39%) VMware
5 3 (13.04%) Apple
5 3 (13.04%) Datto
6 2 (8.70%) Databricks
7 1 (4.35%) Commvault
7 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.35%) NetApp
7 1 (4.35%) Sophos