LAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 47 72
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 +29
Contract jobs citing LAN 19 65 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.39% 3.42% 2.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.58% 17.66% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 42
10th Percentile £300 £200 £263
25th Percentile £363 £298 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +10.24% +20.52%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £475
90th Percentile £550 £775 £581
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £31.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +37.78% -65.38% +188.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 368 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.02% 19.34% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 216 220
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £256 £305 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £609
90th Percentile £692 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £524
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.49% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £16.26 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +7.84% +8.82%
75th Percentile £24.22 £23.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £34.80 £28.75 £24.45
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Birmingham 0 6 £538 +13.16% 10
Warwickshire -16 5 £350 -53.33% 9
Solihull +5 4 - - 8
Coventry - 3 £438 -
Worcestershire -1 1 £525 -27.59% 4
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) WAN
2 8 (42.11%) SD-WAN
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) Network Security
4 4 (21.05%) NAS
4 4 (21.05%) SAN
4 4 (21.05%) Unified Communications
4 4 (21.05%) VoIP
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (15.79%) MPLS
5 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (15.79%) Wireless
6 2 (10.53%) BGP
6 2 (10.53%) EIGRP
6 2 (10.53%) OSPF
6 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.26%) Internet
7 1 (5.26%) VLAN
7 1 (5.26%) Wireless Security
7 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
1 6 (31.58%) Windows Server
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Presales
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Register
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) CCIE
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) Dell
2 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Infoblox
3 3 (15.79%) Meraki
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
4 2 (10.53%) Mitel
5 1 (5.26%) HP
5 1 (5.26%) Juniper
5 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus
5 1 (5.26%) Progress
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Zscaler