LAN Contracts in England

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 161 214
Rank change year-on-year +28 +53 -13
Contract jobs citing LAN 644 860 985
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.74% 1.70% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.87% 13.93% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 537 657
10th Percentile £203 £213 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £538
90th Percentile £743 £675 £643
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 51
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.96 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £32.44 £17.57
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +0.36%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £47.35 £80.25 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -65.38% +176.86% +20.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -5 200 £475 -3.55% 96
South East +3 156 £375 -16.67% 63
South West +39 96 £650 +30.00% 25
North of England +10 82 £425 +13.33% 77
Midlands +12 78 £475 +11.76% 62
West Midlands +32 65 £475 +11.76% 44
Yorkshire +34 40 £400 -5.88% 17
North West -16 40 £445 +14.84% 55
East of England -3 24 £525 +23.53% 39
East Midlands +1 11 £555 +58.57% 17
North East +15 2 £400 +73.91% 5
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.78%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.62%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 56 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.26%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.16%) RMDS
2 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (14.91%) Azure
2 75 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (11.02%) AWS
4 40 (6.21%) Cloud Computing
5 37 (5.75%) IaaS
6 34 (5.28%) PaaS
6 34 (5.28%) SaaS
7 21 (3.26%) GCP
8 16 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.09%) Mimecast
9 7 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.93%) OCI
11 5 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.78%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.78%) Route 53
12 4 (0.62%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (0.47%) Serverless
13 3 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 525 (81.52%) WAN
2 239 (37.11%) Firewall
3 172 (26.71%) VPN
4 140 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
5 136 (21.12%) Wireless
6 92 (14.29%) DNS
7 91 (14.13%) BGP
7 91 (14.13%) OSPF
8 87 (13.51%) DHCP
9 77 (11.96%) SD-WAN
10 76 (11.80%) WLAN
11 63 (9.78%) MPLS
12 57 (8.85%) Network Security
13 50 (7.76%) Cisco ASA
14 48 (7.45%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (7.30%) IPsec
15 47 (7.30%) VLAN
15 47 (7.30%) VoIP
16 39 (6.06%) SAN
17 38 (5.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.31%) MySQL
4 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.62%) JIRA
2 3 (0.47%) Git
2 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.16%) Gradle
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
General
1 177 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 94 (14.60%) Public Sector
3 63 (9.78%) Finance
4 49 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.90%) Telecoms
6 23 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
7 14 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.71%) Legal
10 10 (1.55%) Banking
11 9 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.24%) Marketing
13 7 (1.09%) Back Office
13 7 (1.09%) Electronics
14 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.93%) Military
14 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 182 (28.26%) Network Engineer
2 169 (26.24%) Architect
3 123 (19.10%) Network Architect
4 50 (7.76%) Senior
5 43 (6.68%) Support Engineer
6 30 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (4.66%) Senior Network Engineer
7 29 (4.50%) IT Engineer
8 25 (3.88%) IT Support
9 24 (3.73%) Analyst
10 22 (3.42%) Lead
10 22 (3.42%) Network Specialist
11 21 (3.26%) Technical Architect
12 20 (3.11%) Cisco Engineer
12 20 (3.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 19 (2.95%) 2nd Line Support
14 18 (2.80%) Hardware Engineer
14 18 (2.80%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (2.80%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.48%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.86%) LDAP
2 9 (1.40%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.40%) Web Services
3 8 (1.24%) Middleware
4 5 (0.78%) XML
5 4 (0.62%) JSON
5 4 (0.62%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.47%) XMPP
7 2 (0.31%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.31%) Jinja
7 2 (0.31%) RESTful
7 2 (0.31%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.31%) XSLT
7 2 (0.31%) YANG
8 1 (0.16%) EDI
8 1 (0.16%) LAMP
8 1 (0.16%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.16%) libvirt
8 1 (0.16%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 41 (6.37%) Video Conferencing
3 35 (5.43%) Driving Licence
4 33 (5.12%) PKI
5 22 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.80%) Clustering
7 18 (2.80%) NHS
8 13 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.71%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.40%) CMDB
11 8 (1.24%) CCTV
12 7 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.78%) Replication
14 5 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 4 (0.62%) AS400
15 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 174 (27.02%) Windows
2 71 (11.02%) Windows Server
3 53 (8.23%) Windows 10
4 48 (7.45%) Linux
5 29 (4.50%) Mac OS
6 21 (3.26%) Unix
7 20 (3.11%) Windows 7
8 12 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.40%) Android
11 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.47%) CentOS
13 3 (0.47%) Debian
13 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (13.04%) ITIL
3 70 (10.87%) Migration
4 68 (10.56%) Customer Service
5 55 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 47 (7.30%) Agile
6 47 (7.30%) Change Management
7 46 (7.14%) Project Management
8 45 (6.99%) Network Management
9 42 (6.52%) Project Delivery
10 40 (6.21%) Business Strategy
11 37 (5.75%) Customer Requirements
12 35 (5.43%) Network Architecture
12 35 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (5.28%) Zero Trust
14 28 (4.35%) Network Design
14 28 (4.35%) Open Source
15 26 (4.04%) Capacity Management
15 26 (4.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (4.04%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.75%) PowerShell
2 26 (4.04%) Python
3 12 (1.86%) SQL
4 7 (1.09%) Bash
5 3 (0.47%) Java
6 2 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 237 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.01%) Cisco Certification
3 102 (15.84%) Degree
4 85 (13.20%) DV Cleared
5 84 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 70 (10.87%) CCNP
7 69 (10.71%) CCNA
8 25 (3.88%) CCIE
9 18 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.33%) JNCIA
11 10 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.40%) CCIE Data Center
13 8 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.93%) JNCIS
16 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.78%) MCSA
16 5 (0.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.70%) SLA
2 15 (2.33%) QA
3 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.47%) NCSC
4 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.16%) COBIT
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
5 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 100 (15.53%) Active Directory
2 74 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.04%) Firmware
4 25 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.95%) Virtual Servers
6 13 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.02%) VMware NSX
7 10 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.40%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.78%) vSphere
10 4 (0.62%) Docker
10 4 (0.62%) XenApp
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.16%) Ceph
13 1 (0.16%) iptables
13 1 (0.16%) KVM
13 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (9.01%) SCCM
2 28 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 18 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.33%) Terraform
5 11 (1.71%) Ansible
6 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.55%) NetBackup
7 9 (1.40%) SCOM
8 8 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.24%) Nagios
8 8 (1.24%) VxRail
9 7 (1.09%) Kubernetes
9 7 (1.09%) SolarWinds Orion
9 7 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.93%) Autotask
11 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.78%) OpenView
12 4 (0.62%) Nessus
13 3 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 291 (45.19%) Cisco
2 139 (21.58%) Microsoft
3 109 (16.93%) Juniper
4 94 (14.60%) VMware
5 92 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 48 (7.45%) CheckPoint
7 47 (7.30%) F5
8 45 (6.99%) Fortinet
9 38 (5.90%) HP
10 34 (5.28%) Aruba
10 34 (5.28%) Meraki
11 30 (4.66%) SolarWinds
12 24 (3.73%) Citrix
13 22 (3.42%) Infoblox
14 18 (2.80%) ServiceNow
15 15 (2.33%) SAP
16 13 (2.02%) Brocade
16 13 (2.02%) Google
17 12 (1.86%) Blue Coat
17 12 (1.86%) Dell