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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing LAN 23 28 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.18% 2.91% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.36% 15.91% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 30
10th Percentile £182 - £252
25th Percentile £193 £209 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £225 £388
Median % change year-on-year +22.33% -41.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £475 £248 £506
90th Percentile £481 £469 £581
England median daily rate £450 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -1.80% +1.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £14.67
25th Percentile - - £16.92
Median hourly rate - - £17.64
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.63 £20.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.13% -50.00% +21.21%

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 222 176 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.34% 18.28% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 103 153
10th Percentile £203 £160 £238
25th Percentile £290 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £408 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -5.23% +1.18%
75th Percentile £540 £570 £575
90th Percentile £688 £699 £646
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile - £11.92 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.16 £15.05
Median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -43.12% +54.48% +65.95%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.91
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +140.24%

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 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 2026. 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 -22 9 £225 -7.22% 14
North Yorkshire -5 7 £450 -18.18% 4
South Yorkshire -60 7 £358 +64.61% 3
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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) CICS
3 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Acrobat
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) SaaS
4 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (91.30%) WAN
2 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 11 (47.83%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
4 6 (26.09%) VPN
5 5 (21.74%) DHCP
5 5 (21.74%) Network Security
6 4 (17.39%) VLAN
6 4 (17.39%) Wireless
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (13.04%) VoIP
8 2 (8.70%) BGP
8 2 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (8.70%) DWDM
8 2 (8.70%) OSPF
8 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (8.70%) Unified Communications
9 1 (4.35%) FCoE
9 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Coordinator
2 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) CMDB
2 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (21.74%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) iPhone
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Smartphone
5 1 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Android
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.35%) Linux
5 1 (4.35%) MVS
5 1 (4.35%) Solaris
5 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) ITIL
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Time Management
3 6 (26.09%) Change Management
3 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
4 5 (21.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (21.74%) ITSM
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Runbook
5 2 (8.70%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (17.39%) CCNA
2 4 (17.39%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) JNCIA
4 2 (8.70%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) SRDF
2 1 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (8.70%) SCCM
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) Adobe
3 5 (21.74%) Meraki
3 5 (21.74%) Veeam
4 2 (8.70%) Arista
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Aruba
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) F5
5 1 (4.35%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) NetApp
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Pure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds