LAN Contracts in London

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 201 199
Rank change year-on-year -51 -2 +118
Contract jobs citing LAN 101 200 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.80% 1.12% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.68% 11.63% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 134 196
10th Percentile £264 £207 £216
25th Percentile £383 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.80% +7.34%
75th Percentile £572 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £828 £763
England median daily rate £471 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £50.20 - £17.29
25th Percentile £50.50 £16.00 £19.03
Median hourly rate £51.00 £20.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -52.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £51.50 £23.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.80 - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.56% -65.38% +188.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Central London -5 16 £549 +21.89% 14
West London +18 9 £400 -23.81% 4
East London +18 6 £420 +30.23%
South London +8 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 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.74%) Azure
2 16 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.87%) AWS
4 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.98%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub
7 1 (0.99%) IaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (85.15%) WAN
2 58 (57.43%) Firewall
3 44 (43.56%) VPN
4 29 (28.71%) Wireless
5 26 (25.74%) Network Security
6 25 (24.75%) BGP
6 25 (24.75%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (20.79%) SD-WAN
8 20 (19.80%) DNS
8 20 (19.80%) OSPF
9 19 (18.81%) MPLS
10 18 (17.82%) TCP/IP
11 17 (16.83%) DHCP
12 15 (14.85%) VLAN
13 14 (13.86%) WLAN
14 12 (11.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (10.89%) IPsec
16 10 (9.90%) EIGRP
16 10 (9.90%) Internet
17 9 (8.91%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) eggPlant
3 2 (1.98%) Git
4 1 (0.99%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) JIRA Agile
General
1 30 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.76%) Finance
3 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.95%) Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Legal
8 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Games
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.97%) Law
8 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Billing
9 2 (1.98%) Electronics
9 2 (1.98%) Local Government
9 2 (1.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Back Office
10 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (34.65%) Network Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Senior
3 11 (10.89%) Architect
4 9 (8.91%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Network Architect
6 7 (6.93%) Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Consultant
8 4 (3.96%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) IT Support
8 4 (3.96%) Lead
8 4 (3.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Support Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.98%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.98%) NETCONF
1 2 (1.98%) RESTful
2 1 (0.99%) ADO
2 1 (0.99%) JSON
2 1 (0.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.97%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.98%) CMDB
4 2 (1.98%) NHS
4 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) CCTV
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) e-Health
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.99%) EPoS
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.80%) Windows
2 9 (8.91%) Linux
3 4 (3.96%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.97%) Unix
4 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.98%) Android
6 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (14.85%) Network Monitoring
3 14 (13.86%) High Availability
4 11 (10.89%) Customer Service
5 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (9.90%) ITIL
5 10 (9.90%) Network Design
6 9 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (8.91%) Network Architecture
7 8 (7.92%) Agile
7 8 (7.92%) Change Management
7 8 (7.92%) Mentoring
7 8 (7.92%) Migration
8 7 (6.93%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (6.93%) Project Management
9 6 (5.94%) Business Strategy
9 6 (5.94%) DevOps
9 6 (5.94%) Network Management
10 5 (4.95%) Computer Science
10 5 (4.95%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.87%) Python
2 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (22.77%) CCNP
3 18 (17.82%) CCNA
4 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
5 13 (12.87%) Degree
6 10 (9.90%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.92%) CCSA
8 7 (6.93%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.95%) JNCIS
10 3 (2.97%) CCSE
11 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.98%) CCIE
11 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.99%) CCDA
12 1 (0.99%) CCDP
12 1 (0.99%) CWNA
12 1 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) SLA
2 2 (1.98%) DICOM
2 2 (1.98%) HL7
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.96%) Firmware
4 1 (0.99%) Docker
4 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Ansible
2 9 (8.91%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (3.96%) CA Spectrum
4 4 (3.96%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.97%) SCCM
5 3 (2.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (1.98%) AppManager
6 2 (1.98%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.99%) Icinga
7 1 (0.99%) Nagios
7 1 (0.99%) Netcool
7 1 (0.99%) Observium
7 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 58 (57.43%) Cisco
2 23 (22.77%) Palo Alto
3 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
4 19 (18.81%) Juniper
5 18 (17.82%) CheckPoint
6 17 (16.83%) F5
7 15 (14.85%) Fortinet
8 14 (13.86%) Meraki
9 12 (11.88%) SolarWinds
10 10 (9.90%) Arista
10 10 (9.90%) VMware
11 8 (7.92%) Aruba
12 5 (4.95%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.97%) Dell
13 3 (2.97%) Forcepoint
13 3 (2.97%) Mitel
14 2 (1.98%) IBM
14 2 (1.98%) Ivanti
14 2 (1.98%) SAP
14 2 (1.98%) TIBCO