LAN Contracts in East London

Local Area Network (LAN)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 6.25% 0.92% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% 7.41% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £243 - £192
25th Percentile £272 £123 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £125 £253
Median % change year-on-year +236.00% -50.50% -19.20%
75th Percentile £533 £128 £288
90th Percentile £550 - £307
London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 27 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 22.92% 12.39% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 36
10th Percentile £210 £179 £183
25th Percentile £258 £496 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £585 £663
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% -11.70% +53.18%
75th Percentile £550 £641 £750
90th Percentile £585 £770 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £563
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.54%
London median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.21% -45.35% +32.31%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in East London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in East London

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in East London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in East London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in East London

LAN
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Tower Hamlets - 2 £455 -
Havering - 2 £245 -
Lewisham - 1 £550 -
LAN
London

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) MPLS
2 3 (50.00%) VoIP
2 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) NGFW
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) Multicast
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) PSTN
4 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) eggPlant
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA Agile
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) AppManager
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Aruba
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Ivanti
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Arista