LAN Contracts in the City of London

Local Area Network (LAN)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 123 149
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -36
Contract jobs citing LAN 19 49 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.86% 1.34% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.88% 13.57% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 31
10th Percentile £114 £229 £400
25th Percentile £131 £313 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £724 £638 £644
90th Percentile £785 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £450 £510 £530
% change year-on-year -11.76% -3.77% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.58
25th Percentile - - £39.06
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £43.56
90th Percentile - - £44.13
Central London median hourly rate - - £41.25

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 361 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 9.90% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 245 326
10th Percentile £221 £239 £313
25th Percentile £350 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +4.53%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £615
90th Percentile £775 £764 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) WAN
2 8 (42.11%) Wireless
3 7 (36.84%) WLAN
4 4 (21.05%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (15.79%) BGP
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (15.79%) IPsec
5 3 (15.79%) OSPF
5 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
5 3 (15.79%) Unified Communications
6 2 (10.53%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.26%) MPLS
7 1 (5.26%) Multicast
7 1 (5.26%) Network Security
7 1 (5.26%) SAN
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Network Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Technician
3 2 (10.53%) IT Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Junior
3 2 (10.53%) Junior IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) Junior IT Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) iPhone
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Digital Signage
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.26%) IVR
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Change Management
1 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (15.79%) Asset Management
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
3 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Coaching
3 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Logistics
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design
3 2 (10.53%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (5.26%) Business Strategy
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
4 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (5.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) CCIE
4 1 (5.26%) CCNA
4 1 (5.26%) CCNP
4 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.26%) PMP
4 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Juniper
4 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
4 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.53%) F5
6 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.26%) Genesys
6 1 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (5.26%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.26%) VMware