LAN Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Local Area Network (LAN)
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 2.56% 5.19% 2.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 22.22% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £626 £325 -
25th Percentile £626 £339 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £378 £375
Median % change year-on-year +65.89% +0.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £626 £414 £388
90th Percentile £626 £428 -
Cheshire median daily rate £626 £330 £525
% change year-on-year +89.70% -37.14% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £66.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warrington

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 in Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 15.38% 23.38% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile £152 £208 £373
25th Percentile £160 £275 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £328 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.75% -27.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £425 £368 £488
90th Percentile £626 £410 £506
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £453 £513
% change year-on-year +4.64% -11.61% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 -
% change year-on-year +9.38% - -

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

LAN job vacancy trend in Warrington

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing LAN

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (25.00%) IPv6
4 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Military
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki