LAN Jobs in Bristol

Local Area Network (LAN)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 134 157
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing LAN 11 26 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.93% 0.83% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.07% 8.47% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 8
10th Percentile £42,250 - £46,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £26,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £37,500 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -32.13% +38.13%
75th Percentile - £44,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £50,000 £78,750
South West median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £42,250
% change year-on-year +11.76% +0.59% +5.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 307 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.17% 9.76% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 46 235 115
10th Percentile £31,625 £28,950 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,938 £36,250 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +8.26%
75th Percentile £82,188 £65,000 £77,628
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £98,916
South West median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -5.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Bristol

LAN
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for LAN in Bristol

LAN
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in Bristol

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
3 6 (54.55%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
4 5 (45.45%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (45.45%) Wireless
5 4 (36.36%) MPLS
6 3 (27.27%) Network Security
6 3 (27.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (18.18%) BGP
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (18.18%) DHCP
7 2 (18.18%) DNS
7 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
7 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (18.18%) OSPF
7 2 (18.18%) VLAN
8 1 (9.09%) Broadband
8 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
8 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Network Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
5 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CCIE
3 2 (18.18%) CCNA
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) MCSA
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (27.27%) vSphere
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 1 (9.09%) Iperf
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
2 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 3 (27.27%) Zscaler
5 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
5 2 (18.18%) Juniper
6 1 (9.09%) F5
6 1 (9.09%) Google
6 1 (9.09%) Meraki
6 1 (9.09%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) SonicWALL