LAN Contracts in Manchester

Local Area Network (LAN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 75 76 87
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 1.32% 1.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 9.76% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 25
10th Percentile £381 £210 £288
25th Percentile £409 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -35.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £350 £538
90th Percentile - £438 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £438 £375
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £19.75 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Manchester

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Manchester

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Manchester

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Manchester 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
Wigan - 1 £375 -
LAN
North West

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) DWDM
3 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Aruba
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds