LAN Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing LAN 13 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.64% - 2.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.81% - 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 10
10th Percentile £517 - £348
25th Percentile £560 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.24%
75th Percentile £783 - £550
90th Percentile £790 - £570
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% +9.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 36 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.23% 11.36% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 11 42
10th Percentile £310 £350 £406
25th Percentile £543 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £627 £540 £540
90th Percentile £758 £560 £585
South East median daily rate £525 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +7.42% -2.25% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £16.80 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £155.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -4.42%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Buckinghamshire

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 11 £652 - 5
LAN
South East

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco Firepower
3 10 (76.92%) VPN
4 9 (69.23%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (69.23%) DNS
4 9 (69.23%) IPsec
5 7 (53.85%) Network Security
6 6 (46.15%) NGFW
7 5 (38.46%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (38.46%) DHCP
7 5 (38.46%) SD-WAN
7 5 (38.46%) SSL
8 4 (30.77%) BGP
8 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
8 4 (30.77%) CATAPAN
8 4 (30.77%) MPLS
8 4 (30.77%) OSPF
8 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
8 4 (30.77%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Network Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Lead
3 5 (38.46%) Lead Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leader
4 4 (30.77%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Design Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (53.85%) Private Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
3 5 (38.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (38.46%) PKI
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (15.38%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) ITIL
2 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (53.85%) TOGAF
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (38.46%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (38.46%) Zero Trust
4 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
4 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Network Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Network Design
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) CCNP
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (38.46%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CCIE
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NCSC
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) VMware NSX
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 11 (84.62%) Palo Alto
3 9 (69.23%) SolarWinds
4 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Becrypt
5 4 (30.77%) F5
5 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
6 2 (15.38%) Google