LAN Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Local Area Network (LAN)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 17 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.92% 1.59% 3.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 54.55% 5.88% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £362
25th Percentile - £285 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £295 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -46.36% +51.72%
75th Percentile - £305 £725
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +51.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - -
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 17 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 7.19% 26.98% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £419 £514 £373
25th Percentile £447 £540 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +11.59% +37.50%
75th Percentile £519 £624 £575
90th Percentile £575 £648 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £345 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -36.70% -0.91% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - -
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing LAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing LAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support Specialist
1 4 (66.67%) Junior
1 4 (66.67%) Junior IT Support
1 4 (66.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) FinOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) NetScout
2 1 (16.67%) VMware