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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 133 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 -16 -52
Permanent jobs citing LAN 45 15 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 0.64% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.45% 3.48% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 13 33
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,400 £29,647
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,246 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +34.70% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £72,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £41,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +30.12% -12.63% +4.80%

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 393 431 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.88% 18.44% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 276 178 182
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,307
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% -3.49%
75th Percentile £57,000 £47,188 £50,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £57,725 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,250 £50,500
% change year-on-year +24.22% -20.30% -3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 20 - - 5
Leicestershire -21 15 £55,000 +34.15% 11
Northamptonshire -6 8 £38,500 -48.67% 6
Lincolnshire -15 1 - - 2
Nottinghamshire -17 1 £65,000 +145.28% 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 (15.56%) 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 19 (42.22%) Mimecast
3 12 (26.67%) Azure
4 10 (22.22%) 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
7 7 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (8.89%) WLAN
9 3 (6.67%) Network Security
9 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (4.44%) BGP
10 2 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (4.44%) EIGRP
10 2 (4.44%) OSPF
10 2 (4.44%) VoIP
10 2 (4.44%) Wireless
11 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 26 (57.78%) IT Engineer
2 19 (42.22%) Field Engineer
2 19 (42.22%) 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 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Help Desk Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 2 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
8 2 (4.44%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (4.44%) IT Technician
8 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.22%) Analyst
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 24 (53.33%) Android
3 23 (51.11%) Apple iOS
3 23 (51.11%) Windows 10
4 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 27 (60.00%) ITIL
3 22 (48.89%) Proactive Monitoring
4 19 (42.22%) Service Catalogue
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.56%) ERP
7 6 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
8 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (11.11%) ITSM
9 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.89%) Project Delivery
10 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (6.67%) Inventory Management
10 3 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
10 3 (6.67%) Operational Stability
10 3 (6.67%) Process Improvement
10 3 (6.67%) Project Management
11 2 (4.44%) CRM
11 2 (4.44%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) SQL
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 16 (35.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (28.89%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (75.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (42.22%) Logitech
2 19 (42.22%) Sophos
2 19 (42.22%) 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