LAN Contracts in Wales

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 33 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 -11
Contract jobs citing LAN 5 30 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.24% 4.73% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.16% 30.00% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 11
10th Percentile - £273 £150
25th Percentile - £284 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £385 £255
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +50.98% -29.17%
75th Percentile £260 £500 £463
90th Percentile £284 £546 £589
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.36 - -
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
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 100 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.45% 15.77% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 76 126
10th Percentile £175 £250 £185
25th Percentile £199 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £427
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +17.10% -1.56%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £584
90th Percentile £682 £644 £665
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.00
25th Percentile £15.56 - £14.31
Median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.17%
75th Percentile £17.97 - £47.40
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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 Wales -5 4 £220 -45.00% 9
Dyfed - 1 £300 -
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Broadband
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) SonicWALL
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) WatchGuard