LAN Job Trends in the East Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 130 122
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -58
Permanent jobs citing LAN 45 15 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 0.64% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.48% 3.44% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 32
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,400 £29,478
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,000 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,246 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +32.36% +1.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £49,063
90th Percentile £63,000 £77,500 £74,125
England median annual salary £53,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.71% -17.00% +11.11%

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 392 436 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.83% 18.69% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 273 183 177
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,591
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,742 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% -2.72%
75th Percentile £57,000 £44,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -2.86%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

LAN job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

LAN
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

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 3 October 2026. 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
Derbyshire +4 21 - - 6
Leicestershire -25 14 £56,250 +37.20% 14
Northamptonshire -6 8 £38,500 -48.67% 6
Nottinghamshire -15 1 £65,000 +145.28% 1
Lincolnshire -15 1 - - 2
LAN
England

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) IIS
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (44.44%) Mimecast
3 11 (24.44%) Azure
4 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (84.44%) WAN
2 29 (64.44%) Firewall
3 15 (33.33%) DNS
4 14 (31.11%) DHCP
5 12 (26.67%) VPN
6 11 (24.44%) TCP/IP
7 7 (15.56%) VLAN
8 6 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (8.89%) WLAN
10 3 (6.67%) Network Security
10 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (4.44%) BGP
11 2 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (4.44%) EIGRP
11 2 (4.44%) OSPF
11 2 (4.44%) VoIP
11 2 (4.44%) Wireless
12 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (4.44%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (4.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 20 (44.44%) Field Engineer
2 20 (44.44%) Field Service Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) IT Support
4 6 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) IT Manager
5 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Help Desk Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.44%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.44%) IT Technician
7 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Security Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (84.44%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) Android
3 24 (53.33%) Apple iOS
3 24 (53.33%) Windows 10
4 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) Customer Service
2 28 (62.22%) ITIL
3 23 (51.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 20 (44.44%) Service Catalogue
5 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) ERP
8 6 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (11.11%) ITSM
10 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 4 (8.89%) Project Delivery
11 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.67%) Inventory Management
11 3 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 3 (6.67%) Operational Stability
11 3 (6.67%) Process Improvement
11 3 (6.67%) Project Management
12 2 (4.44%) CRM
12 2 (4.44%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) CCNA
2 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.44%) CCNP
4 2 (4.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (44.44%) Logitech
2 20 (44.44%) Sophos
2 20 (44.44%) TOWER Software
3 7 (15.56%) Cisco
4 4 (8.89%) JD Edwards
4 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix
5 2 (4.44%) SAP