LAN Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 29 51
Rank change year-on-year -62 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.59% 4.01% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 16.42% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £526 £209 £257
25th Percentile £547 £209 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £217 £475
Median % change year-on-year +170.51% -54.28% +18.75%
75th Percentile £622 £225 £631
90th Percentile £639 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £445 £233 £400
% change year-on-year +91.40% -41.88% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 110 67 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.00% 24.45% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 41 36
10th Percentile £399 £208 £234
25th Percentile £469 £220 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £687 £625 £594
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £467 £408 £425
% change year-on-year +14.41% -4.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.64
% change year-on-year -43.12% +54.48% +65.95%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

LAN job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in South Yorkshire

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
Sheffield -59 5 £588 +170.51%
LAN
Yorkshire

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) DWDM
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (20.00%) FCoE
5 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (20.00%) Multicast
5 1 (20.00%) NAS
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) MVS
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Runbook
1 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) SRDF
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Arista
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) ForeScout
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Pure Storage