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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 158 221
Rank change year-on-year +1 +63 -14
Contract jobs citing LAN 676 1,032 1,187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.75% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.24% 14.12% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 648 779
10th Percentile £200 £225 £185
25th Percentile £313 £325 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% +6.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £564 £538
90th Percentile £745 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 41 58
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.93 £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% +17.39%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £47.06
90th Percentile £44.80 £81.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £66.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -65.91% +203.45% +10.13%

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 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
England +17 620 £475 +5.56% 387
UK excluding London +9 438 £450 +5.88% 290
London -5 197 £475 -5.00% 114
South East +4 150 £375 -16.67% 67
Work from Home -59 137 £475 -2.56% 132
South West +39 91 £650 +31.65% 31
Midlands +22 81 £475 +11.76% 52
North of England -4 75 £375 - 93
West Midlands +28 68 £475 +13.10% 37
Yorkshire +33 40 £400 -11.11% 28
North West -24 33 £350 -6.67% 60
Scotland +29 22 £675 +54.29% 9
East of England -7 20 £488 +14.71% 34
East Midlands +1 11 £555 +48.00% 15
Wales -10 5 £220 -40.54% 11
North East +12 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 31 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.04%) IIS
4 3 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 57 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.25%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.15%) RMDS
2 1 (0.15%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (15.68%) Azure
2 74 (10.95%) AWS
3 73 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (6.07%) IaaS
5 40 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
6 38 (5.62%) PaaS
7 36 (5.33%) SaaS
8 20 (2.96%) GCP
9 14 (2.07%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.89%) OCI
10 6 (0.89%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.74%) Mimecast
11 5 (0.74%) Route 53
12 4 (0.59%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.44%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.44%) iPaaS
13 3 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 542 (80.18%) WAN
2 252 (37.28%) Firewall
3 177 (26.18%) VPN
4 148 (21.89%) Wi-Fi
5 145 (21.45%) Wireless
6 93 (13.76%) OSPF
7 90 (13.31%) BGP
7 90 (13.31%) DNS
8 88 (13.02%) DHCP
9 85 (12.57%) WLAN
10 81 (11.98%) SD-WAN
11 65 (9.62%) MPLS
12 55 (8.14%) Network Security
13 49 (7.25%) Cisco ASA
14 48 (7.10%) Cisco Nexus
14 48 (7.10%) IPsec
15 45 (6.66%) VLAN
16 43 (6.36%) SAN
17 41 (6.07%) TCP/IP
17 41 (6.07%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.30%) MySQL
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Git
1 4 (0.59%) JIRA
2 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.15%) Gradle
3 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
General
1 194 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.64%) Public Sector
3 63 (9.32%) Finance
4 53 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.07%) Telecoms
6 24 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.78%) Mandarin Language
8 12 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.63%) Legal
10 10 (1.48%) Banking
10 10 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Back Office
12 7 (1.04%) Retail
13 6 (0.89%) Electronics
13 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.89%) Marketing
13 6 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (27.37%) Network Engineer
2 180 (26.63%) Architect
3 127 (18.79%) Network Architect
4 56 (8.28%) Senior
5 44 (6.51%) Support Engineer
6 30 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (4.44%) IT Engineer
6 30 (4.44%) Lead
6 30 (4.44%) Senior Network Engineer
7 28 (4.14%) Technical Architect
8 27 (3.99%) IT Support
9 26 (3.85%) Analyst
10 22 (3.25%) Network Specialist
10 22 (3.25%) Project Manager
11 21 (3.11%) Cisco Engineer
11 21 (3.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 19 (2.81%) 2nd Line Support
13 18 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
14 17 (2.51%) Hardware Engineer
15 16 (2.37%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.92%) LDAP
2 12 (1.78%) Middleware
2 12 (1.78%) Web Services
3 9 (1.33%) 802.1X
4 6 (0.89%) XML
5 5 (0.74%) JSON
5 5 (0.74%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.44%) .NET
6 3 (0.44%) J2EE
6 3 (0.44%) Jinja
6 3 (0.44%) RESTful
6 3 (0.44%) XMPP
6 3 (0.44%) YANG
7 2 (0.30%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.30%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.30%) XSLT
8 1 (0.15%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.15%) libvirt
8 1 (0.15%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 128 (18.93%) Data Centre
2 36 (5.33%) PKI
3 34 (5.03%) Driving Licence
4 32 (4.73%) Video Conferencing
5 20 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.66%) Clustering
8 17 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.37%) NHS
10 14 (2.07%) Client/Server
11 11 (1.63%) CMDB
11 11 (1.63%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.89%) CCTV
13 6 (0.89%) Replication
14 5 (0.74%) iPhone
14 5 (0.74%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 188 (27.81%) Windows
2 81 (11.98%) Windows Server
3 57 (8.43%) Linux
4 53 (7.84%) Windows 10
5 31 (4.59%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.70%) Unix
7 19 (2.81%) Windows 7
8 13 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.48%) Android
10 10 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.89%) CentOS
12 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.44%) Debian
14 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.30%) zOS
16 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (12.57%) ITIL
3 69 (10.21%) Customer Service
4 68 (10.06%) Migration
5 58 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (7.84%) Agile
7 51 (7.54%) Change Management
8 49 (7.25%) Project Management
9 47 (6.95%) Network Management
10 45 (6.66%) Project Delivery
11 43 (6.36%) Business Strategy
12 38 (5.62%) Customer Requirements
13 36 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (5.33%) Zero Trust
14 32 (4.73%) Network Architecture
15 29 (4.29%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (4.29%) High Availability
15 29 (4.29%) Load Balancing
15 29 (4.29%) Network Design
16 28 (4.14%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.51%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.44%) Python
3 13 (1.92%) Bash
4 12 (1.78%) SQL
5 3 (0.44%) Java
6 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 228 (33.73%) Security Cleared
2 124 (18.34%) Cisco Certification
3 101 (14.94%) Degree
4 84 (12.43%) DV Cleared
5 79 (11.69%) CCNP
6 76 (11.24%) SC Cleared
7 74 (10.95%) CCNA
8 27 (3.99%) CCIE
9 18 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.22%) JNCIA
11 9 (1.33%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.89%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.74%) CCSA
14 5 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.32%) SLA
2 19 (2.81%) QA
3 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.59%) NCSC
4 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.15%) COBIT
6 1 (0.15%) HL7
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 109 (16.12%) Active Directory
2 82 (12.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.73%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.70%) Firmware
5 21 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.81%) Virtual Servers
7 18 (2.66%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.33%) vSphere
10 8 (1.18%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.59%) Docker
11 4 (0.59%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.44%) XenApp
13 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.15%) KVM
14 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (9.32%) SCCM
2 27 (3.99%) FortiGate
3 18 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.37%) Terraform
5 15 (2.22%) Ansible
6 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.48%) NetBackup
6 10 (1.48%) SolarWinds Orion
6 10 (1.48%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.33%) SCOM
8 8 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.18%) Nagios
8 8 (1.18%) VxRail
9 7 (1.04%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.89%) Autotask
11 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.74%) OpenView
12 4 (0.59%) Nessus
13 3 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 305 (45.12%) Cisco
2 148 (21.89%) Microsoft
3 110 (16.27%) Juniper
4 107 (15.83%) VMware
5 94 (13.91%) Palo Alto
6 53 (7.84%) F5
7 48 (7.10%) CheckPoint
7 48 (7.10%) Fortinet
8 38 (5.62%) HP
9 36 (5.33%) Aruba
10 34 (5.03%) Meraki
11 28 (4.14%) SolarWinds
12 26 (3.85%) Citrix
13 23 (3.40%) ServiceNow
14 22 (3.25%) Infoblox
15 14 (2.07%) Dell
15 14 (2.07%) Extreme Networks
16 13 (1.92%) Brocade
16 13 (1.92%) Google
16 13 (1.92%) SAP