LAN Job Trends in Cambridge

Local Area Network (LAN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 60 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +77
Permanent jobs citing LAN 3 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.76% 0.84% 4.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 6.41% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - £41,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,188 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -26.09% +121.15%
75th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £69,250
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £44,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% -6.09% +98.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 78 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.82% 13.07% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11 52 57
10th Percentile - £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -4.55% +28.84%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £68,750 - £70,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £34,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% +15.79%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Cambridge

LAN
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam