LAN Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 62 77
Rank change year-on-year -58 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 38 36
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.36% 2.59% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.26% 18.91% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 28
10th Percentile - £208 £263
25th Percentile £158 £209 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £217 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -45.70% -
75th Percentile £375 £388 £478
90th Percentile £414 £425 £558
England median daily rate £450 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £15.42
25th Percentile - - £17.07
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £33.22
% change year-on-year +26.05% -28.36% +51.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 184 201 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.97% 13.70% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 112 174
10th Percentile £234 £162 £192
25th Percentile £378 £228 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £540 £577 £588
90th Percentile £638 £644 £700
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £11.86 £16.17
25th Percentile £47.50 £12.03 £17.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +270.37% -38.64% +1.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £16.21 -
90th Percentile - £16.78 £30.32
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Yorkshire

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
West Yorkshire -20 4 £201 -48.06% 7
South Yorkshire -38 1 - - 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 8
LAN
England

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (16.67%) FCoE
5 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) MVS
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) SRDF
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) VMware