LAN Job Trends in Cardiff

Local Area Network (LAN)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.23% - 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.57% - 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £28,825
25th Percentile - - £28,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.23%
75th Percentile - - £33,250
90th Percentile - - £37,300
South Wales median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +5.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 27 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.57% 14.84% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 54
10th Percentile £28,250 £23,750 £27,350
25th Percentile £30,750 £39,375 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +22.09% -6.01%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,938 £59,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £71,498 £72,433
South Wales median annual salary £30,000 £47,500 £41,067
% change year-on-year -36.84% +15.66% -8.74%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Cardiff

LAN
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware