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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 145 215
Rank change year-on-year -2 +70 -13
Contract jobs citing LAN 585 860 998
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.79% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.22% 14.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 529 669
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £538
90th Percentile £738 £690 £640
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £427
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.24% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 52
10th Percentile £12.82 £18.65 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £28.94 £17.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +168.04% -3.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £47.58
90th Percentile £40.60 £80.25 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year -65.38% +128.79% +26.49%

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 4,786 5,880 7,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.25% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 3,845 5,238
10th Percentile £210 £232 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £615
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 419 322
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.13 £48.33
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.60 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +6.94%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -22 188 £475 -5.00% 125
South East -5 147 £375 -16.67% 64
South West +23 87 £650 +30.00% 25
Midlands +7 71 £470 +19.37% 48
North of England -21 67 £338 -15.63% 91
West Midlands +17 60 £450 +10.43% 30
Yorkshire +33 37 £325 -21.21% 24
North West -37 28 £350 -12.50% 62
East of England -9 18 £525 +50.00% 32
East Midlands +4 10 £550 +57.14% 18
North East +8 2 £400 +117.69% 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 26 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.51%) IIS
4 2 (0.34%) Confluence
4 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
Applications
1 52 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.59%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 92 (15.73%) Azure
2 66 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (10.77%) AWS
4 37 (6.32%) IaaS
5 36 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (6.15%) SaaS
6 34 (5.81%) PaaS
7 19 (3.25%) GCP
8 11 (1.88%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.03%) OCI
9 6 (1.03%) WhatsApp
10 5 (0.85%) Mimecast
10 5 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.51%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.51%) Route 53
11 3 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 471 (80.51%) WAN
2 212 (36.24%) Firewall
3 141 (24.10%) VPN
4 135 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
5 116 (19.83%) Wireless
6 83 (14.19%) DNS
7 81 (13.85%) DHCP
8 76 (12.99%) OSPF
9 75 (12.82%) BGP
10 65 (11.11%) SD-WAN
11 64 (10.94%) MPLS
12 63 (10.77%) WLAN
13 44 (7.52%) Cisco Nexus
14 42 (7.18%) Network Security
15 41 (7.01%) IPsec
16 39 (6.67%) VLAN
17 38 (6.50%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (6.50%) VoIP
18 37 (6.32%) SAN
19 35 (5.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.17%) MySQL
3 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.68%) JIRA
2 3 (0.51%) Git
2 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.17%) Gradle
3 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 81 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 57 (9.74%) Finance
4 47 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.88%) Banking
8 11 (1.88%) Legal
8 11 (1.88%) Mandarin Language
9 10 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Military
12 7 (1.20%) Retail
13 6 (1.03%) Back Office
13 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 169 (28.89%) Network Engineer
2 154 (26.32%) Architect
3 118 (20.17%) Network Architect
4 46 (7.86%) Senior
5 43 (7.35%) Support Engineer
6 30 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
8 27 (4.62%) IT Engineer
9 26 (4.44%) IT Support
10 24 (4.10%) Analyst
11 21 (3.59%) Technical Architect
12 20 (3.42%) Lead
13 19 (3.25%) 2nd Line Support
14 17 (2.91%) IT Support Engineer
14 17 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.74%) Cisco Engineer
15 16 (2.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 16 (2.74%) Desktop Support
16 15 (2.56%) Hardware Engineer
17 14 (2.39%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.71%) Web Services
2 9 (1.54%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.54%) Middleware
3 7 (1.20%) LDAP
4 5 (0.85%) XML
5 4 (0.68%) JSON
5 4 (0.68%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.51%) XMPP
7 2 (0.34%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.34%) Jinja
7 2 (0.34%) RESTful
7 2 (0.34%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.34%) XSLT
7 2 (0.34%) YANG
8 1 (0.17%) EDI
8 1 (0.17%) LAMP
8 1 (0.17%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.17%) libvirt
8 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (19.32%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.30%) Driving Licence
3 27 (4.62%) PKI
4 24 (4.10%) Video Conferencing
5 18 (3.08%) Clustering
6 16 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.39%) NHS
8 13 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.05%) CMDB
9 12 (2.05%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.71%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.85%) CCTV
12 5 (0.85%) iPhone
12 5 (0.85%) Replication
12 5 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.68%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.51%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 164 (28.03%) Windows
2 65 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 49 (8.38%) Windows 10
4 46 (7.86%) Linux
5 29 (4.96%) Mac OS
6 19 (3.25%) Unix
7 18 (3.08%) Windows 7
8 13 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.54%) Android
11 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (1.20%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.68%) CentOS
13 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.51%) Debian
15 2 (0.34%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.34%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (13.16%) ITIL
3 61 (10.43%) Customer Service
4 56 (9.57%) Migration
5 48 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (7.35%) Change Management
6 43 (7.35%) Project Management
7 42 (7.18%) Agile
7 42 (7.18%) Business Strategy
7 42 (7.18%) Network Management
8 40 (6.84%) Project Delivery
9 36 (6.15%) Customer Requirements
10 34 (5.81%) Zero Trust
11 28 (4.79%) Kalman Filter
11 28 (4.79%) Network Architecture
11 28 (4.79%) Open Source
12 25 (4.27%) Asset Management
12 25 (4.27%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (4.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (4.10%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.76%) Python
3 12 (2.05%) SQL
4 10 (1.71%) Bash
5 3 (0.51%) Java
6 2 (0.34%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 207 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 112 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
3 88 (15.04%) Degree
4 80 (13.68%) DV Cleared
5 69 (11.79%) CCNA
6 68 (11.62%) CCNP
7 60 (10.26%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.27%) CCIE
9 17 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.56%) JNCIA
11 9 (1.54%) CCIE Data Center
11 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.37%) AWS Certification
13 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.03%) JNCIS
15 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.85%) CCSA
15 5 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.06%) SLA
2 16 (2.74%) QA
3 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 91 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 69 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.93%) Firmware
4 21 (3.59%) Hyper-V
5 19 (3.25%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (2.56%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.37%) VMware Workstation
10 7 (1.20%) vSphere
11 4 (0.68%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.51%) Docker
12 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.51%) XenApp
13 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.17%) NFS
14 1 (0.17%) Samba
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 52 (8.89%) SCCM
2 20 (3.42%) FortiGate
3 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.22%) Terraform
5 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (1.71%) NetBackup
5 10 (1.71%) vCenter Server
6 9 (1.54%) Ansible
6 9 (1.54%) SCOM
7 8 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.37%) Nagios
7 8 (1.37%) VxRail
8 7 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
9 6 (1.03%) Autotask
9 6 (1.03%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.85%) OpenView
11 4 (0.68%) Nessus
12 3 (0.51%) AppManager
Vendors
1 257 (43.93%) Cisco
2 129 (22.05%) Microsoft
3 96 (16.41%) Juniper
4 87 (14.87%) VMware
5 76 (12.99%) Palo Alto
6 45 (7.69%) CheckPoint
7 43 (7.35%) F5
8 38 (6.50%) Aruba
8 38 (6.50%) Fortinet
9 33 (5.64%) HP
10 30 (5.13%) Meraki
11 23 (3.93%) SolarWinds
12 22 (3.76%) Citrix
13 20 (3.42%) Infoblox
13 20 (3.42%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.39%) Google
15 13 (2.22%) Brocade
16 12 (2.05%) Dell
17 11 (1.88%) 3Com
17 11 (1.88%) Blue Coat
395 LAN jobs Nationwide