LAN Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Local Area Network (LAN) England / London
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	183	166	117
Rank change year-on-year	-17	-49
Contract jobs citing LAN	283	316	469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.38%	1.48%	2.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	12.60%	10.66%	15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	216	211	319
Median daily rate	£375	£450	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-16.66%	+28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£153	£225	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£581	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	7	14
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£20.00	£18.35
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+100.00%	+8.99%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.90	£14.30	£17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£57.25	£24.80	£41.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£23.50	£26.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	-9.61%	+23.80%

LAN is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	2246	2965	3125
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	10.98%	13.87%	13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	1499	2020	2020
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£238	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	66	47	93
Median hourly rate	£24.93	£22.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.31%	+15.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.78	£12.05	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£28.00	£31.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-11.11%	+26.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing LAN as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing LAN in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing LAN in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing LAN in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for LAN in London

LAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the London region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-17	48	£390	-17.89%	9
New Malden	-	5	-	-
Heathrow	+7	2	£350	+34.61%
Croydon	0	2	£463	+2.77%
Feltham	-	2	-	-
Hammersmith	-	2	£110	-
Canary Wharf	+4	1	-	-
Bromley	+4	1	£325	-
Enfield	-	1	-	-
Hayes	-	1	-	-
Ilford	-	1	£168	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-
Westminster	-	1	£475	-
Greenwich	-	1	£150	-
West End of London	-	1	£400	-	3
Brentford	-	1	£365	-	1
LAN England

LAN
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing LAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for LAN.

1	473 (84.62%)	WAN
2	303 (54.20%)	Cisco
3	229 (40.97%)	Firewall
4	217 (38.82%)	Windows
5	175 (31.31%)	Active Directory
6	153 (27.37%)	Cisco Certification
7	138 (24.69%)	Data Centre
8	134 (23.97%)	Microsoft
9	127 (22.72%)	Wireless
10	125 (22.36%)	VPN
11	119 (21.29%)	Finance
12	117 (20.93%)	TCP/IP
13	114 (20.39%)	VMware
14	111 (19.86%)	CCNP
15	97 (17.35%)	MPLS

16	94 (16.82%)	DNS
17	93 (16.64%)	Citrix
18	84 (15.03%)	Juniper
19	83 (14.85%)	Windows Server
20	82 (14.67%)	ITIL
21	80 (14.31%)	Linux
22	77 (13.77%)	Migration
23	75 (13.42%)	Microsoft Office
24	73 (13.06%)	Network Security
25	72 (12.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
26	71 (12.70%)	DHCP
27	69 (12.34%)	CCIE
27	69 (12.34%)	BGP
28	66 (11.81%)	CheckPoint
28	66 (11.81%)	CCNA

LAN
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	34 (6.08%)	MS Exchange
1	34 (6.08%)	SharePoint
2	27 (4.83%)	Skype for Business
3	14 (2.50%)	IIS
4	11 (1.97%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	9 (1.61%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	7 (1.25%)	Apache
7	6 (1.07%)	OpenStack
7	6 (1.07%)	Tomcat
8	4 (0.72%)	Confluence
8	4 (0.72%)	Elasticsearch
8	4 (0.72%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	4 (0.72%)	IBM Notes
9	3 (0.54%)	JBoss
10	2 (0.36%)	SharePoint 2013
10	2 (0.36%)	WebSphere
11	1 (0.18%)	Cloud Foundry
11	1 (0.18%)	DataSynapse
11	1 (0.18%)	Oracle Coherence
11	1 (0.18%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	75 (13.42%)	Microsoft Office
2	15 (2.68%)	Microsoft Excel
3	10 (1.79%)	MS Visio
4	3 (0.54%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	3 (0.54%)	Microsoft Project
5	1 (0.18%)	Acrobat
5	1 (0.18%)	AutoCAD

Business Applications
1	4 (0.72%)	thinkFolio
2	3 (0.54%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	1 (0.18%)	RMDS

Cloud Services
1	57 (10.20%)	Office 365
2	54 (9.66%)	Microsoft Azure
3	53 (9.48%)	Amazon AWS
4	26 (4.65%)	IaaS
5	23 (4.11%)	PaaS
6	17 (3.04%)	SaaS
7	8 (1.43%)	Yammer
8	5 (0.89%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	4 (0.72%)	Azure Active Directory
9	4 (0.72%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (0.72%)	OpenShift
9	4 (0.72%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	2 (0.36%)	IBM Cloud
10	2 (0.36%)	Mimecast
10	2 (0.36%)	OneDrive
11	1 (0.18%)	Amazon EC2
11	1 (0.18%)	Amazon S3
11	1 (0.18%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11	1 (0.18%)	AWS Lambda
11	1 (0.18%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	473 (84.62%)	WAN
2	229 (40.97%)	Firewall
3	127 (22.72%)	Wireless
4	125 (22.36%)	VPN
5	117 (20.93%)	TCP/IP
6	97 (17.35%)	MPLS
7	94 (16.82%)	DNS
8	73 (13.06%)	Network Security
9	71 (12.70%)	DHCP
10	69 (12.34%)	BGP
11	63 (11.27%)	Cisco ASA
12	62 (11.09%)	Cisco IOS
12	62 (11.09%)	WLAN
13	60 (10.73%)	SAN
14	57 (10.20%)	OSPF
15	54 (9.66%)	Wi-Fi
16	49 (8.77%)	Internet
17	47 (8.41%)	VoIP
18	42 (7.51%)	Cisco Nexus
19	38 (6.80%)	Ethernet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	50 (8.94%)	SQL Server
2	6 (1.07%)	SQL Server 2008
3	5 (0.89%)	SQL Server 2012
4	4 (0.72%)	Big Data
4	4 (0.72%)	Relational Database
5	3 (0.54%)	Apache Cassandra
5	3 (0.54%)	Hadoop
5	3 (0.54%)	MySQL
5	3 (0.54%)	PostgreSQL
5	3 (0.54%)	Power BI
5	3 (0.54%)	SQL Server 2005
6	2 (0.36%)	MariaDB
6	2 (0.36%)	Oracle Database
6	2 (0.36%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	2 (0.36%)	SQL Server 2014
6	2 (0.36%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	1 (0.18%)	Amazon RDS
7	1 (0.18%)	HBase
7	1 (0.18%)	MongoDB
7	1 (0.18%)	SQL Server 2016

Development Applications
1	14 (2.50%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	8 (1.43%)	JIRA
3	6 (1.07%)	Visual Studio Team System
4	5 (0.89%)	Git (software)
4	5 (0.89%)	Team Foundation Server
5	4 (0.72%)	Artifactory
5	4 (0.72%)	Jenkins
6	3 (0.54%)	ClearCase
6	3 (0.54%)	ClearQuest
7	2 (0.36%)	Bitbucket
7	2 (0.36%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	2 (0.36%)	Visual Studio
8	1 (0.18%)	MSI
8	1 (0.18%)	Oracle APEX

General
1	119 (21.29%)	Finance
2	47 (8.41%)	Banking
3	38 (6.80%)	Telecoms
4	20 (3.58%)	Retail
5	13 (2.33%)	Legal
6	10 (1.79%)	Manufacturing
7	9 (1.61%)	Investment Banking
7	9 (1.61%)	Multimedia
8	8 (1.43%)	Back Office
8	8 (1.43%)	Marketing
9	4 (0.72%)	Advertising
9	4 (0.72%)	Publishing
10	3 (0.54%)	Electronics
10	3 (0.54%)	Financial Institution
10	3 (0.54%)	French Language
10	3 (0.54%)	Front Office
11	2 (0.36%)	Billing
11	2 (0.36%)	Law
11	2 (0.36%)	Music Industry
11	2 (0.36%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	137 (24.51%)	Network Engineer
2	91 (16.28%)	Analyst
3	67 (11.99%)	Architect
4	48 (8.59%)	Cisco Engineer
5	43 (7.69%)	Project Manager
5	43 (7.69%)	Support Engineer
6	42 (7.51%)	Support Analyst
7	41 (7.33%)	Cisco Network Engineer
8	40 (7.16%)	Desktop Support
9	34 (6.08%)	Network Analyst
10	31 (5.55%)	3rd Line Engineer
11	30 (5.37%)	Senior Network Engineer
12	27 (4.83%)	Infrastructure Engineer
13	26 (4.65%)	Administrator
14	24 (4.29%)	LAN Engineer
15	23 (4.11%)	Network Architect
16	22 (3.94%)	2nd Line Support
16	22 (3.94%)	IT Support
17	20 (3.58%)	Cisco Network Analyst
17	20 (3.58%)	Network Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	35 (6.26%)	802.1X
2	10 (1.79%)	Web Services
3	8 (1.43%)	HTML
3	8 (1.43%)	Middleware
4	5 (0.89%)	XMPP
5	4 (0.72%)	.NET
5	4 (0.72%)	Elastic Stack
5	4 (0.72%)	SOAP
6	2 (0.36%)	CSS
6	2 (0.36%)	JSON
6	2 (0.36%)	Oracle GoldenGate
6	2 (0.36%)	XML
7	1 (0.18%)	Ajax
7	1 (0.18%)	ASP.NET
7	1 (0.18%)	Rendezvous
7	1 (0.18%)	SAML
7	1 (0.18%)	Sensu
7	1 (0.18%)	WebSphere MQ
7	1 (0.18%)	XHTML
7	1 (0.18%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	138 (24.69%)	Data Centre
2	42 (7.51%)	Analytical Skills
3	22 (3.94%)	Management Information System
4	13 (2.33%)	Blackberry
4	13 (2.33%)	Clustering
5	12 (2.15%)	BYOD
5	12 (2.15%)	Private Cloud
5	12 (2.15%)	Video Conferencing
6	10 (1.79%)	Public Cloud
6	10 (1.79%)	Smartphone
7	8 (1.43%)	PKI
8	7 (1.25%)	iPhone
8	7 (1.25%)	Virtual Team
9	6 (1.07%)	Computer Science
9	6 (1.07%)	NHS
10	5 (0.89%)	iPad
11	4 (0.72%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
11	4 (0.72%)	Mobile App
11	4 (0.72%)	User Experience
11	4 (0.72%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	217 (38.82%)	Windows
2	83 (14.85%)	Windows Server
3	80 (14.31%)	Linux
4	61 (10.91%)	Windows Server 2008
5	57 (10.20%)	Windows Server 2012
6	51 (9.12%)	Windows 7
7	31 (5.55%)	Windows 10
8	25 (4.47%)	Unix
8	25 (4.47%)	Windows Server 2003
9	17 (3.04%)	Android
10	16 (2.86%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	14 (2.50%)	Windows XP
12	12 (2.15%)	Windows 8
13	11 (1.97%)	Mac OS X
14	9 (1.61%)	Apple iOS
15	8 (1.43%)	Solaris
16	7 (1.25%)	SUSE
17	6 (1.07%)	Ubuntu
18	4 (0.72%)	Windows 2000 Server
19	2 (0.36%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	82 (14.67%)	ITIL
2	77 (13.77%)	Migration
3	61 (10.91%)	Network Design
4	48 (8.59%)	Network Management
5	47 (8.41%)	Project Management
6	44 (7.87%)	Load Balancing
7	43 (7.69%)	High Availability
8	34 (6.08%)	DevOps
9	31 (5.55%)	Change Management
10	28 (5.01%)	Disaster Recovery
10	28 (5.01%)	Service Management
11	27 (4.83%)	Agile Software Development
12	26 (4.65%)	PRINCE2
12	26 (4.65%)	Stakeholder Management
13	20 (3.58%)	Network Monitoring
14	19 (3.40%)	Asset Management
14	19 (3.40%)	Time Management
15	17 (3.04%)	Network Architecture
16	15 (2.68%)	Configuration Management
16	15 (2.68%)	Information Security

Programming Languages
1	36 (6.44%)	SQL
2	24 (4.29%)	PowerShell
3	14 (2.50%)	Perl
4	12 (2.15%)	Java
5	11 (1.97%)	Python
6	8 (1.43%)	Lisp
7	5 (0.89%)	PHP
8	4 (0.72%)	Bash Shell
8	4 (0.72%)	C
8	4 (0.72%)	Korn
8	4 (0.72%)	Shell Script
9	3 (0.54%)	Groovy
9	3 (0.54%)	VBScript
10	2 (0.36%)	JavaScript
10	2 (0.36%)	Tcl
11	1 (0.18%)	C#
11	1 (0.18%)	C++
11	1 (0.18%)	T-SQL
11	1 (0.18%)	VB
11	1 (0.18%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	153 (27.37%)	Cisco Certification
2	111 (19.86%)	CCNP
3	69 (12.34%)	CCIE
4	66 (11.81%)	CCNA
5	41 (7.33%)	Security Cleared
6	34 (6.08%)	Microsoft Certification
7	25 (4.47%)	SC Cleared
8	24 (4.29%)	MCSE
9	18 (3.22%)	Degree
9	18 (3.22%)	JNCIS
10	11 (1.97%)	CCDP
11	10 (1.79%)	CCIE Routing and Switching
11	10 (1.79%)	JNCIE
11	10 (1.79%)	JNCIP
12	9 (1.61%)	MCSA
12	9 (1.61%)	PMI Certification
12	9 (1.61%)	PMP
13	8 (1.43%)	CCDA
13	8 (1.43%)	ITIL Certification
13	8 (1.43%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	18 (3.22%)	SLA
2	9 (1.61%)	QA
3	7 (1.25%)	PCI DSS
4	3 (0.54%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	3 (0.54%)	PMO
4	3 (0.54%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	2 (0.36%)	GMP
6	1 (0.18%)	BS25999
6	1 (0.18%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.18%)	GDPR
6	1 (0.18%)	GPG13
6	1 (0.18%)	ISO 9001
6	1 (0.18%)	ISO/IEC 20000
6	1 (0.18%)	JSP 440
6	1 (0.18%)	MiFID
6	1 (0.18%)	P3O

System Software
1	175 (31.31%)	Active Directory
2	72 (12.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	29 (5.19%)	Hyper-V
4	18 (3.22%)	VMware ESXi
5	16 (2.86%)	Virtual Servers
6	11 (1.97%)	Docker
6	11 (1.97%)	vSphere
7	9 (1.61%)	vCloud
7	9 (1.61%)	XenApp
8	5 (0.89%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
9	4 (0.72%)	Firmware
9	4 (0.72%)	KVM
9	4 (0.72%)	Virtual Machines
9	4 (0.72%)	Xen
10	3 (0.54%)	LXC
11	2 (0.36%)	Citrix Presentation Server
11	2 (0.36%)	ProxySG
11	2 (0.36%)	SRDF
11	2 (0.36%)	Terminal Services
11	2 (0.36%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	26 (4.65%)	SCCM
2	19 (3.40%)	Cisco CUCM
3	14 (2.50%)	Cisco Prime
3	14 (2.50%)	Nagios
4	13 (2.33%)	Ansible
5	10 (1.79%)	Cisco UCCX
6	9 (1.61%)	FortiGate
7	8 (1.43%)	Puppet
7	8 (1.43%)	vCenter Server
7	8 (1.43%)	ZABBIX
8	7 (1.25%)	Cacti
8	7 (1.25%)	Kubernetes
8	7 (1.25%)	Norton AntiVirus
8	7 (1.25%)	Terraform
9	6 (1.07%)	AirWatch
9	6 (1.07%)	Backup Exec
9	6 (1.07%)	NetBackup
9	6 (1.07%)	Opscode Chef
10	5 (0.89%)	QRadar
10	5 (0.89%)	SolarWinds Orion

Vendors
1	303 (54.20%)	Cisco
2	134 (23.97%)	Microsoft
3	114 (20.39%)	VMware
4	93 (16.64%)	Citrix
5	84 (15.03%)	Juniper
6	66 (11.81%)	CheckPoint
7	63 (11.27%)	Palo Alto
8	47 (8.41%)	SolarWinds
9	44 (7.87%)	F5
10	39 (6.98%)	HP
11	29 (5.19%)	Fortinet
11	29 (5.19%)	NetApp
12	27 (4.83%)	Avaya
12	27 (4.83%)	Oracle
13	23 (4.11%)	Red Hat
14	18 (3.22%)	Riverbed
15	17 (3.04%)	Arista
16	16 (2.86%)	Apple
17	15 (2.68%)	EMC
18	13 (2.33%)	NICE Systems