LAN Jobs in the East Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 162 114
Rank change year-on-year +28 -48 +14
Permanent jobs citing LAN 24 39 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.89% 0.80% 2.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.84% 6.72% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 49
10th Percentile £29,650 £25,750 -
25th Percentile £42,188 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £37,108
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +21.27% -12.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,375 £47,500
90th Percentile - £58,000 £61,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 411 580 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.20% 11.94% 22.77%
Number of salaries quoted 160 470 207
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,938 £30,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,910 £52,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the East Midlands

LAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for LAN in the East Midlands

LAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in the East Midlands

LAN
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +3 11 £65,000 +145.28% 5
Derbyshire +5 8 £50,000 +12.36% 9
Nottinghamshire +14 2 £26,500 -44.79% 5
Leicestershire +36 1 £45,000 -33.33% 2
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.83%) IaaS
4 3 (12.50%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) WAN
2 18 (75.00%) Firewall
3 11 (45.83%) SD-WAN
4 9 (37.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (37.50%) VPN
4 9 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (33.33%) Wireless
6 4 (16.67%) Internet
6 4 (16.67%) Network Security
7 2 (8.33%) DHCP
7 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (4.17%) DNS
8 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
8 1 (4.17%) MPLS
8 1 (4.17%) PBX
8 1 (4.17%) SAN
8 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (4.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Project Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Cisco Support
3 7 (29.17%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) AIX
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Presales
1 9 (37.50%) Zero Trust
2 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 4 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (12.50%) Time Management
4 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.33%) Cost Control
4 2 (8.33%) Cost Management
4 2 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (8.33%) High Availability
4 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (37.50%) CCIE
2 9 (37.50%) CCNP
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Autotask
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Meraki
2 9 (37.50%) Aruba
2 9 (37.50%) Cisco
2 9 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 9 (37.50%) HP
2 9 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks