LAN Contracts

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 163 132
Rank change year-on-year -39 -31 +63
Contract jobs citing LAN 418 628 1,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 1.45% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.61% 11.59% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 347 716
10th Percentile £206 £205 £225
25th Percentile £325 £328 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £588
90th Percentile £625 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 47 50
10th Percentile £20.21 £12.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.00 £15.76 £25.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -61.61% +172.53%
75th Percentile £40.81 £40.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.82 £42.55 £80.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.69 £62.00
% change year-on-year +26.66% -61.80% +181.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,941 5,420 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 12.52% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,193 4,688
10th Percentile £231 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 427 409
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 -
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -33.59% +79.25% +17.78%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
England -35 368 £475 - 549
UK excluding London -42 247 £425 -10.53% 380
London +11 142 £478 -2.05% 218
Work from Home 0 96 £500 +5.26% 219
South East -14 73 £524 +23.24% 105
North of England -18 47 £325 -10.34% 91
Midlands -10 41 £400 -13.98% 69
North West +10 36 £325 -10.34% 44
West Midlands -10 35 £383 -17.30% 48
South West -13 30 £400 -38.46% 38
Scotland +11 26 £399 -8.90% 21
East of England +27 20 £428 -18.57% 50
Wales +14 13 £231 +5.11% 10
Yorkshire -21 7 £400 -5.88% 36
East Midlands -5 6 £525 +12.90% 21
North East 0 3 £375 +25.00% 12

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.96%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 38 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (19.14%) Azure
2 53 (12.68%) AWS
3 48 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (5.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (1.91%) GCP
6 6 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.44%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.20%) GitHub
8 4 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.72%) Route 53
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.48%) SaaS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.24%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 324 (77.51%) WAN
2 179 (42.82%) Firewall
3 134 (32.06%) VPN
4 88 (21.05%) Wireless
5 84 (20.10%) Wi-Fi
6 80 (19.14%) SD-WAN
7 76 (18.18%) DNS
8 62 (14.83%) DHCP
8 62 (14.83%) Network Security
9 61 (14.59%) TCP/IP
10 60 (14.35%) BGP
11 53 (12.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 52 (12.44%) MPLS
13 50 (11.96%) OSPF
14 44 (10.53%) VLAN
14 44 (10.53%) WLAN
15 29 (6.94%) Cisco IOS
15 29 (6.94%) SAN
16 27 (6.46%) IPsec
17 24 (5.74%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (0.48%) DB2
3 2 (0.48%) MySQL
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 5 (1.20%) Git
3 5 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.48%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.24%) JIRA Agile
General
1 138 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (10.77%) Finance
3 40 (9.57%) Telecoms
4 27 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.50%) Manufacturing
6 18 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.59%) Legal
8 12 (2.87%) Banking
9 8 (1.91%) Law
10 7 (1.67%) Retail
11 6 (1.44%) Electronics
11 6 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Billing
12 5 (1.20%) Games
12 5 (1.20%) Local Government
13 3 (0.72%) Aviation
13 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 136 (32.54%) Network Engineer
2 66 (15.79%) Architect
3 42 (10.05%) Network Architect
4 36 (8.61%) Support Engineer
5 26 (6.22%) Senior
6 23 (5.50%) Analyst
7 20 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (4.78%) Technical Architect
8 19 (4.55%) Field Engineer
8 19 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 17 (4.07%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.83%) Cisco Engineer
10 16 (3.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 16 (3.83%) IT Support
11 15 (3.59%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (3.35%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (3.35%) IP Engineer
13 13 (3.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 13 (3.11%) Desktop Support
13 13 (3.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.87%) Middleware
2 6 (1.44%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.44%) XML
3 5 (1.20%) JSON
4 3 (0.72%) EDI
4 3 (0.72%) HTML
5 2 (0.48%) .NET
5 2 (0.48%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.48%) LDAP
5 2 (0.48%) Node.js
5 2 (0.48%) React
5 2 (0.48%) RFC 2544
5 2 (0.48%) Spring
5 2 (0.48%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.24%) ADO
6 1 (0.24%) Jinja
6 1 (0.24%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.24%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.24%) SOAP
6 1 (0.24%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.35%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.83%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.87%) Driving Licence
6 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.91%) CCTV
7 8 (1.91%) CMDB
8 7 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.67%) SCADA
9 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
10 5 (1.20%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 103 (24.64%) Windows
2 55 (13.16%) Linux
3 33 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 27 (6.46%) Windows 10
5 18 (4.31%) Unix
6 11 (2.63%) Mac OS
7 9 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.91%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (1.67%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.44%) Android
10 6 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.20%) Windows 8
11 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (1.20%) Windows XP
12 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.24%) AIX
14 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (13.16%) ITIL
3 47 (11.24%) Network Monitoring
4 42 (10.05%) Project Management
5 41 (9.81%) Migration
5 41 (9.81%) Network Design
6 40 (9.57%) Customer Service
7 34 (8.13%) Network Architecture
8 33 (7.89%) Agile
9 32 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 28 (6.70%) Change Management
11 26 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (6.22%) High Availability
12 25 (5.98%) Mentoring
13 24 (5.74%) Service Management
14 23 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (5.26%) Computer Science
15 22 (5.26%) Load Balancing
16 20 (4.78%) Project Delivery
17 19 (4.55%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (8.37%) Python
2 16 (3.83%) Java
3 15 (3.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.11%) VB
5 9 (2.15%) SQL
6 4 (0.96%) VBScript
7 2 (0.48%) Bash
7 2 (0.48%) C
7 2 (0.48%) C#
7 2 (0.48%) C++
7 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 115 (27.51%) Cisco Certification
2 92 (22.01%) Security Cleared
3 83 (19.86%) CCNP
4 59 (14.11%) SC Cleared
5 54 (12.92%) CCNA
6 42 (10.05%) Degree
7 25 (5.98%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.59%) ISTQB
9 15 (3.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 15 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (3.35%) ISEB
11 12 (2.87%) CCIE
11 12 (2.87%) JNCIA
12 10 (2.39%) CCSA
13 7 (1.67%) JNCIS
14 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.20%) A+ Certification
15 5 (1.20%) MCSE
16 4 (0.96%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.66%) SLA
2 8 (1.91%) QA
3 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) NIST
4 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 68 (16.27%) Active Directory
2 30 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.35%) Firmware
4 8 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.44%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.96%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.72%) Docker
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (7.66%) Ansible
2 26 (6.22%) SCCM
3 25 (5.98%) FortiGate
4 21 (5.02%) Terraform
5 12 (2.87%) Cisco Prime
6 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.67%) CA Spectrum
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.20%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.96%) AppManager
9 4 (0.96%) CASB
9 4 (0.96%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.96%) SCOM
9 4 (0.96%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.72%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (0.48%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.48%) Observium
11 2 (0.48%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 227 (54.31%) Cisco
2 95 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 68 (16.27%) Juniper
4 50 (11.96%) Palo Alto
5 43 (10.29%) F5
6 40 (9.57%) VMware
7 38 (9.09%) Fortinet
8 25 (5.98%) Meraki
9 23 (5.50%) CheckPoint
10 22 (5.26%) Aruba
10 22 (5.26%) ServiceNow
10 22 (5.26%) SolarWinds
11 17 (4.07%) Citrix
12 13 (3.11%) Arista
13 12 (2.87%) Remedy
14 11 (2.63%) HP
15 9 (2.15%) MuleSoft
16 7 (1.67%) Dell
16 7 (1.67%) Peregrine
16 7 (1.67%) Zscaler