LAN Contracts in Cumbria

Local Area Network (LAN)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -
Contract jobs citing LAN 12 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 6.15% 4.63% 5.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.65% 26.09% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £370 £600 £435
25th Percentile £458 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £641 £486
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +31.94% -
75th Percentile £588 £667 £556
90th Percentile £590 £672 £597
North West median daily rate £450 £438 £375
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 46 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 52.82% 17.76% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 10
10th Percentile £363 £463 £424
25th Percentile £425 £515 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £667 £487
90th Percentile £638 £672 £543
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.23 -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Cumbria

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for LAN in Cumbria

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Cumbria

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Cumbria

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Barrow-in-Furness 0 10 £563 -13.13%
LAN
North West

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) WAN
2 10 (83.33%) VPN
3 6 (50.00%) Broadband
3 6 (50.00%) Converged Networks
3 6 (50.00%) Network Security
4 4 (33.33%) BGP
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (33.33%) DHCP
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
4 4 (33.33%) HSRP
4 4 (33.33%) IPsec
4 4 (33.33%) NetScaler
4 4 (33.33%) OSPF
4 4 (33.33%) Skype
4 4 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (25.00%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) Wireless
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
General
1 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (33.33%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) VB
1 4 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) CCNA
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) VMware