LAN Contracts in Sheffield

Local Area Network (LAN)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 45 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.57% 1.85% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.47% 11.48% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile £308 £177 -
25th Percentile £343 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -21.43% +133.33%
75th Percentile £450 £650 -
90th Percentile £480 £670 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £470
% change year-on-year -27.27% +17.02% +56.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 61 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.50% 16.09% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 37
10th Percentile £220 £259 £385
25th Percentile £352 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -20.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £10.63
% change year-on-year - - -39.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) DWDM
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) 4G
4 1 (20.00%) ISDN
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) PSTN
4 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft