LAN Contract Job Trends in Essex

Local Area Network (LAN)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing LAN 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.88% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 3.03% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £374
25th Percentile - - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £350 £419
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -16.42% +147.44%
75th Percentile - - £458
90th Percentile - - £468
East of England median daily rate £200 £553 £400
% change year-on-year -63.80% +38.13% +5.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 33 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 5.26% 25.78% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 32
10th Percentile £209 £213 £192
25th Percentile £223 £275 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £300 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -43.93% +94.55%
75th Percentile £406 £375 £600
90th Percentile £530 £430 £635
East of England median daily rate £550 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +19.57% +2.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £29.00 £73.25
25th Percentile - £33.13 £74.38
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.39% +260.47%
75th Percentile - £56.63 £79.38
90th Percentile - £66.60 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £53.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% -17.31% +30.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Essex

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing LAN

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Essex region over the 6 months to 10 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
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £200 -
LAN
East of England

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware