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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 112 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing LAN 15 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.61% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.93% 7.55% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 17
10th Percentile £322 £409 £123
25th Percentile £491 £463 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £549 £300
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% +82.83% -39.24%
75th Percentile £709 £611 £638
90th Percentile £738 £635 £663
London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

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 151 212 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.13% 10.63% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 144 165
10th Percentile £238 £252 £206
25th Percentile £416 £411 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +23.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £720
London median daily rate £501 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £19.93 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £23.65
% change year-on-year -40.82% +79.70% -45.00%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -9 14 £600 +5.77% 12
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) WAN
2 12 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) VPN
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) DNS
6 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
6 1 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.67%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) Wireless
6 1 (6.67%) WLAN
General
1 7 (46.67%) Military
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
1 9 (60.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL
3 1 (6.67%) Matrix Management
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Network Design
3 1 (6.67%) Network Management
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.67%) Project Management
3 1 (6.67%) Release Management
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Validation
3 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CWNA
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Aruba
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) VMware