LAN Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 34 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 4.50% 6.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.45% 35.42% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 40
10th Percentile £164 £175 £313
25th Percentile £174 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £263 £388 £488
90th Percentile £294 £474 £578
England median daily rate £450 £495 £461
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.40 £33.22
% change year-on-year +33.93% -32.57% +51.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 96 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.31% 12.72% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 80
10th Percentile £146 £163 £212
25th Percentile £154 £194 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £337 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £509
90th Percentile £500 £717 £589
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £22.56 £21.14 £10.77
25th Percentile - £22.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +15.14% +18.51%
75th Percentile - £24.46 £54.00
90th Percentile - £24.96 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +36.12%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

LAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Leicestershire -6 2 £315 +85.29% 8
Derbyshire -12 1 £165 -56.00% 3
Nottinghamshire -13 1 £200 -46.67% 2
LAN
England

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) PSTN
2 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Openreach Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Openreach
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow