LAN Contracts in Reading

Local Area Network (LAN)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 55 57 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 34 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 2.85% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.81% 13.82% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 12
10th Percentile £260 - £426
25th Percentile £275 £205 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £210 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -58.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £444 £215 £531
90th Percentile £530 £650 £568
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £210 £500
% change year-on-year +114.29% -58.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £76.99 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.65% +153.85%
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -74.15% +11.36% +45.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) Junos
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Presales
1 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCDA
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) SAP