LAN Contracts in the South East

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 71 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing LAN 150 177 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.72% 3.07% 2.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.21% 18.44% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 99 126
10th Percentile £169 £273 £185
25th Percentile £205 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £404
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.38% -4.71%
75th Percentile £470 £500 £579
90th Percentile £578 £575 £661
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 16
10th Percentile £34.50 £39.24 £12.25
25th Percentile £58.50 £61.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £25.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +161.62% -56.50%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £49.26
90th Percentile £76.29 £80.25 £65.52
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +0.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,228 960 1,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.24% 16.63% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 584 770
10th Percentile £205 £240 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £562
90th Percentile £648 £700 £658
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 72 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £54.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% +153.49% -49.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.81 £47.31
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the South East

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in the South East

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +11 73 £210 -56.30% 16
Berkshire +14 67 £210 -56.97% 10
Hampshire 0 52 £425 - 19
Surrey +9 10 £405 +62.00% 4
Kent +3 7 £205 -36.92% 9
East Sussex +11 4 £400 -42.86% 4
Oxfordshire +7 4 £465 +3.33% 4
Buckinghamshire +4 2 £300 -33.33% 2
West Sussex +2 2 £113 -70.00% 1
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (19.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.67%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (3.33%) AWS
2 5 (3.33%) Azure
3 3 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (1.33%) GCP
4 2 (1.33%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.33%) IaaS
4 2 (1.33%) PaaS
4 2 (1.33%) SaaS
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (74.67%) WAN
2 43 (28.67%) Firewall
3 38 (25.33%) VPN
4 33 (22.00%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (11.33%) Wireless
6 10 (6.67%) DNS
6 10 (6.67%) Network Security
6 10 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 9 (6.00%) BGP
7 9 (6.00%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (6.00%) DHCP
7 9 (6.00%) OSPF
8 8 (5.33%) IPsec
9 7 (4.67%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (4.00%) MPLS
10 6 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (3.33%) EIGRP
11 5 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
General
1 43 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.33%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Finance
5 6 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.00%) Automotive
8 2 (1.33%) Electronics
8 2 (1.33%) French Language
8 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.33%) Law
8 2 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (1.33%) Military
8 2 (1.33%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (36.00%) Architect
2 50 (33.33%) Network Architect
3 46 (30.67%) Network Engineer
4 18 (12.00%) Senior
5 17 (11.33%) Hardware Engineer
6 16 (10.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Support Specialist
8 6 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.00%) Technical Support
8 6 (4.00%) Technical Support Specialist
9 5 (3.33%) Break Fix Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) IT Support
9 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) IT Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Lead
10 4 (2.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Driving Licence
2 18 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (1.33%) CMDB
6 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.33%) PKI
6 2 (1.33%) SCADA
6 2 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.67%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) iPhone
7 1 (0.67%) Life Science
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.33%) Windows
2 28 (18.67%) Windows 10
3 17 (11.33%) Windows 7
4 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.67%) Linux
5 4 (2.67%) Unix
6 3 (2.00%) Android
6 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (19.33%) Customer Requirements
3 27 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 23 (15.33%) ITIL
4 23 (15.33%) Project Management
5 20 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 20 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 17 (11.33%) Software Deployment
6 17 (11.33%) Software Testing
7 12 (8.00%) Agile
7 12 (8.00%) Preventative Maintenance
8 9 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (5.33%) Availability Management
9 8 (5.33%) Migration
10 7 (4.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (4.67%) Service Management
11 6 (4.00%) Information Security
11 6 (4.00%) Knowledge Management
12 5 (3.33%) Incident Management
12 5 (3.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 101 (67.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.33%) DV Cleared
3 33 (22.00%) Degree
4 23 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.00%) CCNP
6 14 (9.33%) CCNA
7 12 (8.00%) SC Cleared
8 10 (6.67%) JNCIA
9 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.67%) CCSA
10 2 (1.33%) CCIE
11 1 (0.67%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.67%) CCDP
11 1 (0.67%) CCIP
11 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.67%) HNC
11 1 (0.67%) MCSA
11 1 (0.67%) MCSE
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.00%) SLA
2 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.67%) HL7
3 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.33%) Firmware
3 11 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.33%) XenApp
5 1 (0.67%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (2.00%) AppManager
3 2 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.33%) Nessus
3 2 (1.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (1.33%) SCOM
3 2 (1.33%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 76 (50.67%) Cisco
2 47 (31.33%) Juniper
3 36 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 27 (18.00%) HP
5 19 (12.67%) VMware
6 12 (8.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (6.67%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.67%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.00%) SolarWinds
10 5 (3.33%) Aruba
10 5 (3.33%) Blue Coat
10 5 (3.33%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.67%) Meraki
12 3 (2.00%) Citrix
12 3 (2.00%) F5
12 3 (2.00%) Forcepoint
12 3 (2.00%) Ivanti
12 3 (2.00%) SAP
13 2 (1.33%) Apple
13 2 (1.33%) Barracuda Networks