LAN Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Local Area Network (LAN)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.00% 2.04% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% 12.90% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £269 £383 £294
25th Percentile £424 £413 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +22.58% -13.89%
75th Percentile £543 £524 £447
90th Percentile £553 £546 £471
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £523 £508 £388
% change year-on-year +2.96% +30.97% -13.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 31 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.47% 15.82% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 75
10th Percentile £252 £257 £338
25th Percentile £510 £476 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +10.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £560
90th Percentile £643 £666 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £554 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +9.06% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing LAN

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing LAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (50.00%) ICMP
2 3 (50.00%) IPsec
2 3 (50.00%) NGFW
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow