LAN/WAN Engineer Contracts in London

Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (LAN/WAN Engineer)
England > London

The median Local & Wide Area Network Engineer (LAN/WAN Engineer) daily rate in London is £418 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 483 593
Rank change year-on-year +85 +110 -129
Contract jobs requiring a LAN/WAN Engineer 3 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.045% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.047% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £351 - £351
25th Percentile £370 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £469 - £389
90th Percentile £490 - £396
England median daily rate £418 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -16.40% +25.00% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

LAN/WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured LAN/WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for LAN/WAN Engineer in London

LAN/WAN Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for LAN/WAN Engineer in London

LAN/WAN Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN/WAN Engineer in London

LAN/WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, LAN/WAN Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring LAN/WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
3 1 (33.33%) VRRP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus

LAN/WAN Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) GLBP
3 1 (33.33%) HSRP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler