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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 51
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.84% 1.80% 0.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.22% 10.00% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £269 £393 £294
25th Percentile £424 £438 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £508 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +30.97% -13.89%
75th Percentile £543 £604 £447
90th Percentile £553 £684 £471
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £343
% change year-on-year -10.00% +45.99% -23.89%

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 50 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.24% 17.99% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 76
10th Percentile £197 £153 £203
25th Percentile £458 £375 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £591
90th Percentile £643 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 19
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.51
Median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £54.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -22.18% -4.32% +27.44%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -19 6 £523 +10.00% 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (50.00%) ICMP
2 3 (50.00%) IPsec
2 3 (50.00%) NGFW
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow