LAN Job Trends in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 84 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 -39 +41
Permanent jobs citing LAN 15 50 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.87% 2.78% 4.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.38% 21.19% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 41
10th Percentile £33,250 - £29,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £47,500 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £64,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% +17.45% -
75th Percentile £74,563 £66,050 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £70,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 160 236 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.24% 13.12% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 93 101 215
10th Percentile - £37,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) WAN
2 9 (60.00%) Firewall
3 7 (46.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (40.00%) WLAN
5 5 (33.33%) VPN
5 5 (33.33%) Wireless
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (13.33%) DHCP
6 2 (13.33%) DNS
6 2 (13.33%) MPLS
6 2 (13.33%) WebEx
6 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (6.67%) IPsec
7 1 (6.67%) Junos
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security
7 1 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Designer
1 4 (26.67%) Network Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Network Designer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Lead Designer
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Network Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior VoIP Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Presales
1 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (26.67%) Network Design
3 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (6.67%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) CCNA
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Endace
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 10 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 6 (40.00%) Juniper
4 4 (26.67%) Aruba
5 3 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.67%) Dell
7 1 (6.67%) Meraki
7 1 (6.67%) VMware