LAN Contract Job Trends in Central London

Local Area Network (LAN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 110 106
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing LAN 19 20 30
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.88% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.38% 9.01% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 14
10th Percentile £198 £399 £164
25th Percentile £413 £478 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £663
90th Percentile £641 £706 £766
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate - £33.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year - -12.34% +14.07%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 167 222 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.70% 10.66% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 159 175
10th Percentile £212 £257 £240
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -13.60%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £701 £724
London median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -21.69%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 £18.93
90th Percentile £30.39 - -
London median hourly rate £25.31 £35.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% +48.94% -8.60%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Central London

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Central London over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Central London

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
City of London -10 18 £550 -4.35% 16
Southwark - 1 £188 -
LAN
London

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) WAN
2 14 (73.68%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (31.58%) SD-WAN
4 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
6 1 (5.26%) DNS
6 1 (5.26%) Internet
6 1 (5.26%) WLAN
General
1 7 (36.84%) Military
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Architect
1 11 (57.89%) Network Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) IT Manager
3 3 (15.79%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Change Management
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Logistics
2 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
2 3 (15.79%) Scrum
2 3 (15.79%) Time Management
2 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
3 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM
4 1 (5.26%) Matrix Management
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.26%) Release Management
4 1 (5.26%) Service Management
4 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CCIE
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) PMO
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.79%) Arista
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix
5 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
6 1 (5.26%) Aruba
6 1 (5.26%) Juniper
6 1 (5.26%) Remedy
6 1 (5.26%) VMware