LAN Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Local Area Network (LAN)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 57 91
Rank change year-on-year -29 +34 +12
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.41% 1.87% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.02% 18.18% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £345 £414 £413
25th Percentile £411 £456 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -23.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £554 £547 £694
90th Percentile £574 £564 £700
North West median daily rate £225 £463 £590
% change year-on-year -51.43% -21.48% +38.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £18.07 £50.00
% change year-on-year +268.12% -63.87% +23.23%

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 83 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.84% 10.30% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 136
10th Percentile £170 £204 £313
25th Percentile £304 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £585
90th Percentile £688 £615 £694
North West median daily rate £475 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +3.38% -8.20% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.97%
75th Percentile £20.00 - £46.88
90th Percentile - - £50.00
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

LAN job vacancy trend in Manchester

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Manchester

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) DWDM
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
4 1 (20.00%) TACACS
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Web Filtering
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Netskope
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec