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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 111 145
Rank change year-on-year -25 +34 -44
Permanent jobs citing LAN 23 23 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.50% 1.26% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.89% 5.87% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 36
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,125 £25,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £45,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £60,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +31.87% +22.62%
75th Percentile £62,813 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 - £58,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +1.35%

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 334 392 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.33% 21.40% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 179 164 456
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £29,563 £29,807
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -1.88% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -15 8 £33,000 -37.14% 1
Northamptonshire +3 7 £50,000 -23.08%
Leicestershire -32 4 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Nottinghamshire -9 3 £60,000 - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £62,500 - 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 7 (30.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Mimecast
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (95.65%) WAN
2 14 (60.87%) Firewall
3 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (17.39%) DHCP
4 4 (17.39%) SD-WAN
4 4 (17.39%) VPN
4 4 (17.39%) WLAN
5 3 (13.04%) Wireless
6 2 (8.70%) BGP
6 2 (8.70%) OSPF
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (4.35%) IPsec
7 1 (4.35%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) SSL
7 1 (4.35%) Unified Communications
7 1 (4.35%) VLAN
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) IT Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Field Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Field Service Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) IT Support
4 3 (13.04%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Services Manager
5 2 (8.70%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Android
3 5 (21.74%) Apple iOS
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Customer Service
2 11 (47.83%) ITIL
3 10 (43.48%) Proactive Monitoring
4 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Service Catalogue
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) ITSM
6 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (13.04%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Web Filtering
8 2 (8.70%) Deadline-Driven
8 2 (8.70%) IT Strategy
8 2 (8.70%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (8.70%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (17.39%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
4 1 (4.35%) Firmware
4 1 (4.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) Autotask
2 2 (8.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Logitech
2 5 (21.74%) Sophos
2 5 (21.74%) TOWER Software
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.70%) Progress
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Aruba
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) F5
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow