LAN Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Local Area Network (LAN)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing LAN 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.43% 1.42% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.63% 15.38% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £338 £360
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -6.25% +25.22%
North West median daily rate £423 £463 £590
% change year-on-year -8.80% -21.48% +38.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 13 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 16.38% 9.22% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 6
10th Percentile £258 £400 £175
25th Percentile £404 £475 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £280
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +78.57% -39.46%
75th Percentile £579 £538 £360
90th Percentile £688 - £403
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile - £20.37 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £22.05 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £24.67 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +200.98% -46.22% -11.99%
75th Percentile - £32.39 -
90th Percentile - £43.56 -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £41.23
% change year-on-year +69.39% -39.95% +99.13%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Lancashire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing LAN

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Preston -2 1 £335 -36.19%
LAN
North West

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds