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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 93 59
Rank change year-on-year -30 -34 +29
Permanent jobs citing LAN 20 34 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.79% 1.49% 3.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.15% 12.41% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 37
10th Percentile - £36,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,239 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -6.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £54,121 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,148 £80,625 £68,500
England median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -

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 388 274 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.40% 11.99% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 191 98 200
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £62,625
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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
Northamptonshire +10 8 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Derbyshire -20 4 £33,000 -12.00% 1
Nottinghamshire - 4 - -
Leicestershire -1 2 £38,500 -9.41% 1
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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) WAN
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 6 (30.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (20.00%) Firewall
4 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (20.00%) WLAN
5 3 (15.00%) BGP
5 3 (15.00%) OSPF
6 2 (10.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) Network Security
6 2 (10.00%) VLAN
7 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.00%) IPv4
7 1 (5.00%) IPv6
7 1 (5.00%) SAN
7 1 (5.00%) SSL
7 1 (5.00%) VPLS
7 1 (5.00%) VPN
7 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Customer Support Technician
1 4 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) IT Support
1 4 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Technician
1 4 (20.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Technical Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Technical Services Manager
2 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (30.00%) ITSM
3 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Break/Fix
5 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) ISMS
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (20.00%) Service Management
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Transition Management
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Autotask
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (10.00%) Juniper
3 2 (10.00%) Progress
4 1 (5.00%) Aruba
4 1 (5.00%) Meraki