LAN Contracts in the Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 89 57 80
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing LAN 22 78 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 2.83% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.28% 15.85% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 74
10th Percentile £300 £200 £215
25th Percentile £335 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +13.10% +14.36%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £500
90th Percentile - £775 £569
England median daily rate £471 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -34 16 £438 -7.89% 28
East Midlands +5 6 £525 -5.41% 17
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) WAN
2 6 (27.27%) SD-WAN
3 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 5 (22.73%) Network Security
4 4 (18.18%) NAS
4 4 (18.18%) SAN
4 4 (18.18%) VLAN
5 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (9.09%) BGP
6 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
6 2 (9.09%) OSPF
6 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications
6 2 (9.09%) VoIP
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.55%) DHCP
7 1 (4.55%) Wireless Security
7 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
7 1 (4.55%) WLAN
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) IT Support
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Field Support Technician
3 3 (13.64%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (13.64%) IT Technician
3 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Support Technician
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Network Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
1 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
3 4 (18.18%) Project Management
3 4 (18.18%) Storage Management
4 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Network Design
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (9.09%) Presales
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Register
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Python
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) CCENT
3 3 (13.64%) CCNA
3 3 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (9.09%) CCNP
4 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.55%) CCIE
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCOM
2 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco
2 4 (18.18%) Dell
3 3 (13.64%) Infoblox
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Aruba
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Mitel
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler