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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 120 109
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +36
Contract jobs citing LAN 17 16 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.86% 0.68% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.77% 6.30% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 14
10th Percentile £391 £396 £321
25th Percentile £413 £496 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% +25.26%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £728
90th Percentile £653 £722 £845
London median daily rate £450 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -13.46% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate - £33.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -43.75% +109.72%

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 174 254 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.76% 10.79% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 167 181
10th Percentile £296 £263 £263
25th Percentile £415 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £619
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £22.82 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% +1.05%
75th Percentile £25.95 £33.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £36.81 - £61.38
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +6.00%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +6 17 £525 -8.70% 12
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 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) WAN
2 11 (64.71%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
4 4 (23.53%) VPN
5 3 (17.65%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (11.76%) DNS
6 2 (11.76%) Network Security
7 1 (5.88%) BGP
7 1 (5.88%) DHCP
7 1 (5.88%) MPLS
7 1 (5.88%) OSPF
7 1 (5.88%) WLAN
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Military
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
1 9 (52.94%) Network Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) IT Manager
3 3 (17.65%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Project Management
2 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Logistics
3 3 (17.65%) Network Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Time Management
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (11.76%) Matrix Management
4 2 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) Release Management
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (17.65%) Arista
4 3 (17.65%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (11.76%) VMware
6 1 (5.88%) ForeScout
6 1 (5.88%) IBM
6 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
6 1 (5.88%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) Remedy
6 1 (5.88%) Zscaler