LAN Contracts in the East of England

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 92 78
Rank change year-on-year +27 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing LAN 20 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.04% 0.95% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.40% 6.55% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 22
10th Percentile £235 £285 -
25th Percentile £263 £419 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £525 £369
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +42.37% -7.81%
75th Percentile £477 £550 £548
90th Percentile £581 £603 £688
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £35.48
25th Percentile - - £41.44
Median hourly rate £15.33 £12.86 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -75.62% +102.88%
75th Percentile - £14.31 £63.94
90th Percentile - £15.18 £69.83
England median hourly rate £31.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +37.78% -65.38% +188.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 238 275 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.31% 14.55% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 127 201
10th Percentile £225 £199 £210
25th Percentile £363 £261 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £638
90th Percentile £625 £580 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 103 37
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £15.66 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £21.46 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.47% -57.08% +222.58%
75th Percentile £80.76 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.55 - £66.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the East of England

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cambridgeshire +18 9 £430 -18.10% 6
Hertfordshire +25 3 £463 -9.76% 34
Essex +13 3 £245 -60.80% 7
Bedfordshire -2 3 £413 -5.71% 5
Norfolk -4 1 - - 4
Suffolk - 1 £650 - 7
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Akamai
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) WAN
2 10 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (35.00%) Firewall
4 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (30.00%) WLAN
5 5 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (25.00%) DHCP
6 4 (20.00%) DNS
6 4 (20.00%) NAS
6 4 (20.00%) SAN
6 4 (20.00%) VLAN
6 4 (20.00%) VoIP
6 4 (20.00%) Wireless
7 3 (15.00%) OSPF
7 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
8 2 (10.00%) BGP
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (10.00%) Multicast
8 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Support
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (10.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) FMCG
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Network Management
2 5 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Coaching
5 1 (5.00%) High Availability
5 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CCDP
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) ECDL
2 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (5.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 3 (15.00%) AppManager
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) NetApp
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.00%) Ivanti
5 2 (10.00%) F5
5 2 (10.00%) Juniper
5 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.00%) AirMagnet
6 1 (5.00%) Arista
6 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.00%) Ekahau
6 1 (5.00%) HP
6 1 (5.00%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.00%) Splunk
6 1 (5.00%) Zscaler