LAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing LAN 469 562 683
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 2.32% 2.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.47% 15.49% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 365 447
10th Percentile £201 £213 £177
25th Percentile £309 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £525 £513
90th Percentile £725 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 48
10th Percentile £12.82 £21.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £35.50 £16.28
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -65.65% +201.15% +11.54%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £49.50 £80.25 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,482 3,627 4,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.75% 15.00% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,300 2,649
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £432
Median % change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 335 240
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £9.80 £15.47
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £58.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South East +1 157 £375 -16.67% 60
South West +44 100 £650 +31.65% 25
North of England +16 86 £425 +13.33% 77
Midlands +15 78 £475 +11.76% 57
West Midlands +29 65 £475 +11.76% 40
Yorkshire +43 42 £425 +9.68% 20
North West -15 42 £450 +16.13% 52
East of England -5 26 £525 +13.51% 36
Scotland +14 23 £600 +39.13% 6
East Midlands +2 11 £555 +58.57% 17
Wales -8 5 £220 -42.86% 8
North East +14 2 £400 +73.91% 5
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 47 (10.02%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.21%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.21%) RMDS
2 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (11.51%) Azure
3 32 (6.82%) IaaS
3 32 (6.82%) PaaS
4 30 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
4 30 (6.40%) SaaS
5 25 (5.33%) AWS
6 7 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.28%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.64%) GCP
8 3 (0.64%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.43%) GitHub
9 2 (0.43%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.21%) OCI
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 377 (80.38%) WAN
2 139 (29.64%) Firewall
3 104 (22.17%) Wi-Fi
4 96 (20.47%) VPN
5 65 (13.86%) Wireless
6 46 (9.81%) DNS
6 46 (9.81%) SD-WAN
7 44 (9.38%) DHCP
8 38 (8.10%) MPLS
8 38 (8.10%) WLAN
9 35 (7.46%) VoIP
10 34 (7.25%) Network Security
11 31 (6.61%) Cisco Nexus
11 31 (6.61%) SAN
12 30 (6.40%) BGP
13 25 (5.33%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (5.33%) OSPF
14 20 (4.26%) Skype
14 20 (4.26%) VLAN
15 19 (4.05%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.85%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.68%) Finance
4 30 (6.40%) Telecoms
5 28 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.92%) Legal
8 9 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.71%) Marketing
10 7 (1.49%) Back Office
10 7 (1.49%) Electronics
10 7 (1.49%) Retail
11 5 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.85%) Military
13 3 (0.64%) Local Government
13 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 160 (34.12%) Architect
2 127 (27.08%) Network Engineer
3 113 (24.09%) Network Architect
4 29 (6.18%) Senior
4 29 (6.18%) Support Engineer
5 23 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (4.69%) Analyst
6 22 (4.69%) Technical Architect
7 20 (4.26%) IT Engineer
8 19 (4.05%) Lead
9 18 (3.84%) Hardware Engineer
9 18 (3.84%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (3.41%) IT Support
11 15 (3.20%) Technical Support
12 13 (2.77%) Field Engineer
12 13 (2.77%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (2.77%) Voice Architect
13 12 (2.56%) Cisco Engineer
13 12 (2.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 12 (2.56%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.56%) Web Services
2 9 (1.92%) Middleware
3 4 (0.85%) LDAP
4 3 (0.64%) .NET
4 3 (0.64%) J2EE
4 3 (0.64%) XMPP
5 2 (0.43%) XML
5 2 (0.43%) XSLT
6 1 (0.21%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (20.47%) Data Centre
2 33 (7.04%) Driving Licence
3 20 (4.26%) Video Conferencing
4 16 (3.41%) Clustering
5 15 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.99%) NHS
7 13 (2.77%) Client/Server
8 12 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.35%) Operational Technology
9 11 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.92%) CMDB
11 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.07%) PKI
12 4 (0.85%) AS400
12 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.85%) Replication
13 3 (0.64%) Blog
13 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (29.64%) Windows
2 53 (11.30%) Windows Server
3 41 (8.74%) Windows 10
4 38 (8.10%) Linux
5 19 (4.05%) Unix
6 18 (3.84%) Windows 7
7 13 (2.77%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.07%) Android
9 5 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.64%) Debian
11 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.43%) zOS
13 1 (0.21%) CentOS
13 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (12.15%) ITIL
3 53 (11.30%) Customer Service
4 44 (9.38%) Migration
5 42 (8.96%) Network Management
6 41 (8.74%) Business Strategy
7 39 (8.32%) Project Delivery
8 37 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
8 37 (7.89%) Project Management
9 35 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (6.82%) Zero Trust
11 29 (6.18%) Agile
12 27 (5.76%) Open Source
12 27 (5.76%) Service Delivery
13 25 (5.33%) Decision-Making
14 21 (4.48%) Data Protection
15 20 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (4.05%) High Availability
16 19 (4.05%) Programme Management
17 18 (3.84%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.49%) SQL
3 6 (1.28%) Python
4 5 (1.07%) Bash
5 2 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 209 (44.56%) Security Cleared
2 79 (16.84%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (16.42%) DV Cleared
4 74 (15.78%) Degree
5 64 (13.65%) SC Cleared
6 55 (11.73%) CCNA
7 40 (8.53%) CCNP
8 14 (2.99%) JNCIA
9 12 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.56%) CCIE
10 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.92%) CCIE Data Center
12 5 (1.07%) CCSA
12 5 (1.07%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.85%) HND
13 4 (0.85%) MCP
13 4 (0.85%) MCSA
14 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.10%) SLA
2 14 (2.99%) QA
3 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.21%) COBIT
6 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.21%) HL7
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 72 (15.35%) Active Directory
2 64 (13.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.26%) Firmware
5 13 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.56%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.64%) vSphere
10 3 (0.64%) XenApp
11 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.21%) Docker
12 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 57 (12.15%) SCCM
2 15 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (1.71%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.71%) Nagios
4 8 (1.71%) NetBackup
5 7 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.28%) Autotask
6 6 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.28%) SCOM
7 5 (1.07%) OpenView
7 5 (1.07%) VxRail
8 3 (0.64%) AppManager
8 3 (0.64%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.43%) Nessus
9 2 (0.43%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.43%) OPNET
9 2 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 187 (39.87%) Cisco
2 97 (20.68%) Microsoft
3 84 (17.91%) VMware
4 72 (15.35%) Juniper
5 34 (7.25%) Palo Alto
6 31 (6.61%) HP
7 25 (5.33%) Aruba
8 22 (4.69%) CheckPoint
9 20 (4.26%) Meraki
9 20 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 18 (3.84%) Citrix
10 18 (3.84%) Fortinet
11 15 (3.20%) SAP
12 14 (2.99%) F5
13 11 (2.35%) 3Com
13 11 (2.35%) Brocade
14 10 (2.13%) Apple
14 10 (2.13%) NetApp
15 9 (1.92%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.71%) Veeam