LAN Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring LAN skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 53 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing LAN 2 18 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.26% 2.09% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 19.35% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £179 £266 £270
25th Percentile £211 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.47% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £364 £447 £588
90th Percentile £402 £481 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.58
25th Percentile - - £14.18
Median hourly rate - - £15.56
75th Percentile - - £17.00
90th Percentile - - £17.64
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £24.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +13.05% +7.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 82 93 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.85% 10.81% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 57 107
10th Percentile £235 £364 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £516 £613 £588
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -10.48% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £13.58
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.87 £14.18
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.03 £15.56
Median % change year-on-year +232.67% -3.42% -68.88%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.44 £17.00
90th Percentile - £17.94 £17.64
Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £17.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year +190.19% -21.68% +2.85%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in West Yorkshire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in West Yorkshire

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Leeds -11 1 £401 -5.76%
Huddersfield - 1 £165 - 2
LAN
Yorkshire

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat