LAN Contracts in London

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > 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 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 207 202 321
Rank change year-on-year -5 +119 -43
Contract jobs citing LAN 200 349 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.13% 1.29% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.68% 13.05% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 192 203
10th Percentile £207 £213 £195
25th Percentile £350 £349 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £452
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +8.96% +9.58%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £577
90th Percentile £835 £745 £675
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile - £17.29 £39.79
25th Percentile £16.00 £19.03 £41.37
Median hourly rate £20.40 £42.50 £44.37
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.21% -11.26%
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.00 £48.06
90th Percentile - - £58.04
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +0.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,674 3,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.88% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,889 2,582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 52 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in London

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Central London +9 25 £450 -11.76% 17
West London +14 3 £525 +118.75% 3
East London -3 3 £323 +27.72% 4
South London +9 2 £450 +69.81% 3
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.00%) Azure
2 43 (21.50%) AWS
3 23 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.50%) GCP
5 9 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.50%) Mimecast
8 6 (3.00%) IaaS
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.50%) OCI
9 5 (2.50%) Route 53
10 4 (2.00%) SaaS
10 4 (2.00%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.50%) PaaS
11 3 (1.50%) Serverless
12 2 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 164 (82.00%) WAN
2 114 (57.00%) Firewall
3 79 (39.50%) VPN
4 72 (36.00%) Wireless
5 68 (34.00%) OSPF
6 67 (33.50%) BGP
7 45 (22.50%) DNS
8 42 (21.00%) DHCP
9 41 (20.50%) WLAN
10 35 (17.50%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (16.50%) IPsec
12 30 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
13 29 (14.50%) SD-WAN
14 28 (14.00%) VLAN
15 27 (13.50%) MPLS
16 24 (12.00%) Network Security
17 23 (11.50%) EIGRP
18 21 (10.50%) Cisco Nexus
18 21 (10.50%) TCP/IP
19 19 (9.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.50%) MySQL
2 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) Gradle
2 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.50%) Finance
3 23 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.00%) Mandarin Language
6 9 (4.50%) Banking
6 9 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Front Office
9 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Aviation
10 2 (1.00%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (31.00%) Network Engineer
2 22 (11.00%) Network Specialist
3 21 (10.50%) Senior
4 18 (9.00%) Architect
5 15 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.50%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Cisco Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.00%) IT Support
8 10 (5.00%) Network Architect
8 10 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (3.50%) Desktop Support
9 7 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Lead
9 7 (3.50%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.00%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) 802.1X
2 6 (3.00%) LDAP
3 4 (2.00%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.00%) Jinja
4 2 (1.00%) JSON
4 2 (1.00%) Middleware
4 2 (1.00%) RESTful
4 2 (1.00%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.00%) XML
4 2 (1.00%) YANG
5 1 (0.50%) LAMP
5 1 (0.50%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.50%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 28 (14.00%) PKI
3 23 (11.50%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (5.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.00%) CCTV
5 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.00%) NHS
6 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.50%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.50%) iPhone
7 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Clustering
8 2 (1.00%) CMDB
8 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.00%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 47 (23.50%) Windows
2 26 (13.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.50%) Mac OS
4 13 (6.50%) Linux
5 11 (5.50%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.50%) Android
6 5 (2.50%) Unix
7 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.00%) CentOS
8 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.00%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (16.50%) Change Management
2 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (14.50%) ITIL
4 27 (13.50%) Migration
5 23 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (10.50%) Agile
6 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (10.50%) Threat Management
7 18 (9.00%) Customer Service
7 18 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (8.50%) Network Architecture
8 17 (8.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (8.00%) Network Design
10 14 (7.00%) Capacity Management
11 13 (6.50%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (6.50%) Problem Management
11 13 (6.50%) Project Management
12 12 (6.00%) Cloud Security
12 12 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.50%) Python
2 14 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.00%) Bash
3 4 (2.00%) SQL
4 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.50%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (21.50%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (16.50%) CCNP
3 32 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 31 (15.50%) Degree
5 22 (11.00%) SC Cleared
6 21 (10.50%) CCNA
7 12 (6.00%) CCIE
8 8 (4.00%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.50%) MCSE
13 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.00%) PMP
13 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.50%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.00%) SLA
2 4 (2.00%) QA
3 3 (1.50%) NCSC
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.50%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.00%) Firmware
6 5 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.50%) Docker
9 2 (1.00%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.00%) vSphere
10 1 (0.50%) Ceph
10 1 (0.50%) iptables
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.50%) NFS
10 1 (0.50%) Samba
10 1 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (9.50%) FortiGate
2 13 (6.50%) Terraform
3 9 (4.50%) Ansible
4 7 (3.50%) SCCM
5 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.50%) SCOM
7 3 (1.50%) TrustSec
7 3 (1.50%) VxRail
8 2 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.00%) Nessus
8 2 (1.00%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.00%) Nmap
8 2 (1.00%) OpenNMS
8 2 (1.00%) Puppet
8 2 (1.00%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 113 (56.50%) Cisco
2 59 (29.50%) Palo Alto
3 49 (24.50%) Microsoft
4 36 (18.00%) Juniper
5 34 (17.00%) F5
6 29 (14.50%) Fortinet
7 26 (13.00%) CheckPoint
8 20 (10.00%) VMware
9 16 (8.00%) Infoblox
10 12 (6.00%) Meraki
10 12 (6.00%) SolarWinds
11 11 (5.50%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (5.00%) ServiceNow
13 9 (4.50%) Aruba
14 8 (4.00%) Dell
14 8 (4.00%) Google
15 7 (3.50%) TOWER Software
16 6 (3.00%) Blue Coat
16 6 (3.00%) Citrix
16 6 (3.00%) Huawei