LAN Contracts in Cambridge

Local Area Network (LAN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.39% 1.55% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.81% 15.00% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £360 £303 -
25th Percentile £413 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% - -
75th Percentile £445 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £430 £393 -
% change year-on-year +9.55% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 20 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 18.42% 10.31% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 31
10th Percentile £378 £203 £275
25th Percentile £415 £235 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £475 £494
90th Percentile £618 £538 £535
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £474 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.44% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.77
25th Percentile - £86.25 £16.95
Median hourly rate £23.00 £87.50 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -73.71% +159.37% +92.77%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £53.44
90th Percentile - - £53.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £18.84 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.02% +21.52% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) NAS
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) 802.11
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (20.00%) WLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WPA2
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (80.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) AirMagnet
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Ekahau