LAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 200 155
Rank change year-on-year -19 -45 +111
Contract jobs citing LAN 85 149 422
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 0.97% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.15% 9.25% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 97 276
10th Percentile £350 £270 £325
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £573 £672 £588
90th Percentile £601 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 23
10th Percentile £20.78 £22.50 £35.70
25th Percentile £24.19 £28.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £41.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -45.33% +57.89%
75th Percentile £37.69 £55.50 £76.88
90th Percentile £41.33 £62.70 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -65.38% +176.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

LAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LAN.

LAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LAN.

LAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LAN over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LAN hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) Azure
2 17 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.88%) Route 53
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.18%) Akamai
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.18%) GCP
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 76 (89.41%) WAN
2 55 (64.71%) Firewall
3 41 (48.24%) VPN
4 28 (32.94%) Wireless
5 24 (28.24%) DNS
6 23 (27.06%) Network Security
7 22 (25.88%) BGP
7 22 (25.88%) SD-WAN
8 19 (22.35%) DHCP
9 17 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 16 (18.82%) OSPF
11 15 (17.65%) MPLS
11 15 (17.65%) TCP/IP
11 15 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (15.29%) Internet
13 11 (12.94%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (8.24%) SNMP
15 6 (7.06%) EIGRP
15 6 (7.06%) IPsec
16 5 (5.88%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Retail
6 4 (4.71%) Law
6 4 (4.71%) Legal
7 3 (3.53%) Back Office
7 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.53%) Military
8 2 (2.35%) German Language
8 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Police
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (44.71%) Network Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) Architect
3 13 (15.29%) Senior
4 9 (10.59%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Network Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Active Directory Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Consultant
7 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.88%) Wintel Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Network Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Network Project Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Network Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.35%) LDAP
2 2 (2.35%) Middleware
2 2 (2.35%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.35%) SAML
3 1 (1.18%) HTML
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.24%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.88%) PKI
4 3 (3.53%) EPoS
4 3 (3.53%) IVR
4 3 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.35%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) FMCG
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (24.71%) Windows
2 12 (14.12%) Linux
3 8 (9.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.71%) Android
5 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (15.29%) Network Monitoring
1 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (14.12%) Migration
3 11 (12.94%) Network Design
4 9 (10.59%) Change Management
4 9 (10.59%) ITIL
4 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
5 8 (9.41%) Incident Management
5 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.41%) Network Architecture
6 7 (8.24%) High Availability
6 7 (8.24%) Project Management
7 6 (7.06%) Agile
7 6 (7.06%) Business Strategy
7 6 (7.06%) Information Security
7 6 (7.06%) Inventory Management
8 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
8 5 (5.88%) RBAC
8 5 (5.88%) Roadmaps
8 5 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (28.24%) CCNP
3 20 (23.53%) Security Cleared
4 18 (21.18%) SC Cleared
5 14 (16.47%) CCNA
6 7 (8.24%) Degree
7 6 (7.06%) AWS Certification
7 6 (7.06%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
9 4 (4.71%) CCIE
10 3 (3.53%) CCDP
11 2 (2.35%) CCIE Security
11 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.35%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.35%) JNCIS
12 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (1.18%) BC Cleared
12 1 (1.18%) CEH
12 1 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) SLA
2 3 (3.53%) NIST
2 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.53%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (3.53%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (2.35%) CASB
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.18%) Icinga
5 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.18%) Nagios
5 1 (1.18%) Observium
Vendors
1 50 (58.82%) Cisco
2 23 (27.06%) Palo Alto
3 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 14 (16.47%) Juniper
5 11 (12.94%) Aruba
6 9 (10.59%) Fortinet
7 7 (8.24%) Arista
7 7 (8.24%) VMware
8 6 (7.06%) F5
8 6 (7.06%) Meraki
9 5 (5.88%) SolarWinds
10 4 (4.71%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.53%) Apple
11 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.35%) Citrix
12 2 (2.35%) Databricks
12 2 (2.35%) Forcepoint
12 2 (2.35%) HP
12 2 (2.35%) Infoblox
12 2 (2.35%) Splunk