Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 156 223
Rank change year-on-year +6 +67 -21
Contract jobs citing LAN 703 1,023 1,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 1.71% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.52% 13.88% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 638 786
10th Percentile £203 £225 £185
25th Percentile £313 £325 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £538
90th Percentile £745 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +9.41% +13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 41 58
10th Percentile £12.86 £21.22 £13.18
25th Percentile £15.75 £47.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +176.86% +20.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £47.06
90th Percentile £47.20 £81.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £65.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year -65.65% +201.15% +11.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
England +28 644 £475 +5.56% 358
UK excluding London +21 457 £465 +9.41% 277
London -5 200 £475 -3.55% 96
South East +3 156 £375 -16.67% 63
Work from Home -46 150 £525 +7.69% 136
South West +39 96 £650 +30.00% 25
North of England +10 82 £425 +13.33% 77
Midlands +12 78 £475 +11.76% 62
West Midlands +32 65 £475 +11.76% 44
Yorkshire +34 40 £400 -5.88% 17
North West -16 40 £445 +14.84% 55
East of England -3 24 £525 +23.53% 39
Scotland +21 22 £675 +56.52% 8
East Midlands +1 11 £555 +58.57% 17
Wales -9 5 £220 -42.86% 9
North East +15 2 £400 +73.91% 5

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 35 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.14%) IIS
4 5 (0.71%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 59 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.14%) RMDS
2 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (15.50%) Azure
2 80 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (10.67%) AWS
4 41 (5.83%) IaaS
5 40 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
6 38 (5.41%) PaaS
7 35 (4.98%) SaaS
8 21 (2.99%) GCP
9 16 (2.28%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.00%) Mimecast
10 7 (1.00%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.85%) OCI
12 5 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.71%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.71%) Route 53
13 4 (0.57%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.43%) Google Workspace
14 3 (0.43%) Serverless
14 3 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 567 (80.65%) WAN
2 258 (36.70%) Firewall
3 184 (26.17%) VPN
4 149 (21.19%) Wireless
5 148 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
6 97 (13.80%) OSPF
7 94 (13.37%) BGP
7 94 (13.37%) DNS
8 92 (13.09%) SD-WAN
9 90 (12.80%) DHCP
10 87 (12.38%) WLAN
11 66 (9.39%) MPLS
12 63 (8.96%) Network Security
13 50 (7.11%) Cisco ASA
13 50 (7.11%) VLAN
14 49 (6.97%) Cisco Nexus
14 49 (6.97%) IPsec
15 47 (6.69%) VoIP
16 43 (6.12%) TCP/IP
17 42 (5.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.28%) MySQL
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Git
1 4 (0.57%) JIRA
2 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.14%) Gradle
3 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 196 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 69 (9.82%) Finance
4 52 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.26%) Telecoms
6 25 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.99%) Mandarin Language
8 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.56%) Legal
10 10 (1.42%) Banking
11 9 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.14%) Electronics
12 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.14%) Marketing
13 7 (1.00%) Back Office
13 7 (1.00%) Retail
14 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 193 (27.45%) Network Engineer
2 186 (26.46%) Architect
3 128 (18.21%) Network Architect
4 57 (8.11%) Senior
5 44 (6.26%) Support Engineer
6 33 (4.69%) IT Engineer
7 32 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
9 30 (4.27%) Lead
10 27 (3.84%) Technical Architect
11 26 (3.70%) IT Support
12 25 (3.56%) Analyst
13 23 (3.27%) Project Manager
14 22 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
14 22 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 22 (3.13%) Network Specialist
15 19 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
16 18 (2.56%) Hardware Engineer
16 18 (2.56%) IT Support Engineer
17 17 (2.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.85%) LDAP
2 12 (1.71%) Middleware
2 12 (1.71%) Web Services
3 9 (1.28%) 802.1X
4 6 (0.85%) XML
5 5 (0.71%) JSON
5 5 (0.71%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.43%) .NET
6 3 (0.43%) J2EE
6 3 (0.43%) Jinja
6 3 (0.43%) RESTful
6 3 (0.43%) XMPP
6 3 (0.43%) YANG
7 2 (0.28%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.28%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.28%) XSLT
8 1 (0.14%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.14%) libvirt
8 1 (0.14%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 131 (18.63%) Data Centre
2 42 (5.97%) Video Conferencing
3 35 (4.98%) Driving Licence
4 34 (4.84%) PKI
5 23 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.56%) Clustering
7 18 (2.56%) NHS
8 17 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.99%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.56%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.42%) CMDB
12 8 (1.14%) CCTV
13 7 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.85%) Replication
15 5 (0.71%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 190 (27.03%) Windows
2 82 (11.66%) Windows Server
3 54 (7.68%) Linux
4 53 (7.54%) Windows 10
5 32 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.56%) Unix
7 20 (2.84%) Windows 7
8 13 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.42%) Android
11 7 (1.00%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.43%) CentOS
14 3 (0.43%) Debian
14 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.28%) zOS
16 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (12.38%) ITIL
3 73 (10.38%) Migration
4 72 (10.24%) Customer Service
5 61 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (7.25%) Agile
7 50 (7.11%) Project Management
8 48 (6.83%) Change Management
9 47 (6.69%) Network Management
9 47 (6.69%) Project Delivery
10 43 (6.12%) Business Strategy
11 38 (5.41%) Customer Requirements
12 37 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (5.12%) Zero Trust
14 35 (4.98%) Network Architecture
15 31 (4.41%) High Availability
16 29 (4.13%) Network Design
17 28 (3.98%) Capacity Management
17 28 (3.98%) Open Source
18 27 (3.84%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 41 (5.83%) PowerShell
2 31 (4.41%) Python
3 12 (1.71%) SQL
4 10 (1.42%) Bash
5 3 (0.43%) Java
6 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 240 (34.14%) Security Cleared
2 123 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
3 110 (15.65%) Degree
4 87 (12.38%) SC Cleared
5 85 (12.09%) DV Cleared
6 76 (10.81%) CCNP
7 74 (10.53%) CCNA
8 27 (3.84%) CCIE
9 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.13%) JNCIA
11 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.28%) CCIE Data Center
13 8 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.85%) JNCIS
16 5 (0.71%) MCSA
16 5 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.96%) SLA
2 19 (2.70%) QA
3 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.57%) NCSC
5 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) HL7
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 110 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 83 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 26 (3.70%) Firmware
5 19 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
6 18 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (2.13%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.28%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.85%) vSphere
11 4 (0.57%) Docker
11 4 (0.57%) XenApp
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.28%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.14%) iptables
14 1 (0.14%) KVM
14 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (9.10%) SCCM
2 28 (3.98%) FortiGate
3 20 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.28%) Terraform
5 15 (2.13%) Ansible
6 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.42%) NetBackup
6 10 (1.42%) SolarWinds Orion
7 9 (1.28%) SCOM
8 8 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.14%) Nagios
8 8 (1.14%) VxRail
9 7 (1.00%) Kubernetes
9 7 (1.00%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.85%) Autotask
11 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.71%) OpenView
12 4 (0.57%) Nessus
13 3 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 312 (44.38%) Cisco
2 153 (21.76%) Microsoft
3 112 (15.93%) Juniper
4 108 (15.36%) VMware
5 96 (13.66%) Palo Alto
6 53 (7.54%) F5
7 50 (7.11%) Fortinet
8 48 (6.83%) CheckPoint
9 39 (5.55%) HP
10 36 (5.12%) Aruba
11 35 (4.98%) Meraki
12 31 (4.41%) SolarWinds
13 28 (3.98%) Citrix
14 23 (3.27%) Infoblox
15 21 (2.99%) ServiceNow
16 15 (2.13%) SAP
17 14 (1.99%) Dell
17 14 (1.99%) Extreme Networks
18 13 (1.85%) Brocade
18 13 (1.85%) Google