LAN Jobs in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 105 125
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 -36
Permanent jobs citing LAN 61 38 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.25% 1.88% 2.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.31% 12.71% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50 31 61
10th Percentile £28,570 £46,250 £35,675
25th Percentile £32,000 £52,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,000 - £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £40,313 £42,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.59% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 374 299 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.81% 14.82% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 308 212 315
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £34,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in Birmingham.

Salary trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 12 (19.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.92%) Azure Stack
3 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) AWS
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (93.44%) WAN
2 35 (57.38%) Firewall
3 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
4 13 (21.31%) MPLS
4 13 (21.31%) WLAN
5 11 (18.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (18.03%) Network Security
6 9 (14.75%) SD-WAN
6 9 (14.75%) Wireless
7 8 (13.11%) SAN
7 8 (13.11%) VLAN
7 8 (13.11%) VoIP
7 8 (13.11%) VPN
8 7 (11.48%) BGP
8 7 (11.48%) OSPF
9 5 (8.20%) DNS
10 4 (6.56%) DHCP
11 2 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.28%) IPsec
11 2 (3.28%) WAAS
General
1 35 (57.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (8.20%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Law
6 2 (3.28%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (3.28%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Administrator
1 11 (18.03%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) IT Administrator
2 10 (16.39%) IT Systems Administrator
3 9 (14.75%) Network Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Network Manager
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 7 (11.48%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) IT Technician
6 5 (8.20%) Mobile Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Support Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Wiki
2 7 (11.48%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.20%) IoT
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.64%) CCTV
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.59%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows 10
2 5 (8.20%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.92%) Linux
3 3 (4.92%) SUSE
3 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (18.03%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (18.03%) Patch Management
3 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (8.20%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (8.20%) CRM
4 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
4 5 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (8.20%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (6.56%) Computer Science
5 4 (6.56%) Customer Experience
5 4 (6.56%) Decision-Making
5 4 (6.56%) Housing Management
5 4 (6.56%) ITIL
5 4 (6.56%) Network Management
5 4 (6.56%) Project Delivery
5 4 (6.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Perl
1 11 (18.03%) PowerShell
1 11 (18.03%) Python
2 6 (9.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (18.03%) CCNP
3 10 (16.39%) CCNA
4 9 (14.75%) Degree
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.56%) DBS Check
5 4 (6.56%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.28%) CCDA
6 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.28%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.92%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Cisco
2 21 (34.43%) Microsoft
3 17 (27.87%) Juniper
4 11 (18.03%) Aruba
5 9 (14.75%) VMware
6 8 (13.11%) Citrix
6 8 (13.11%) Veeam
7 7 (11.48%) Nokia
8 6 (9.84%) Ericsson
9 5 (8.20%) HP
9 5 (8.20%) Sophos
10 4 (6.56%) Meraki
10 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
11 3 (4.92%) CheckPoint
12 2 (3.28%) Avaya
12 2 (3.28%) F5
12 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
13 1 (1.64%) MikroTik
13 1 (1.64%) Ruckus Wireless
13 1 (1.64%) Snow