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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 109 62
Rank change year-on-year -9 -47 +40
Permanent jobs citing LAN 15 45 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.69% 1.31% 3.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.68% 14.29% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 46
10th Percentile £36,575 £31,100 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,110 £36,250 £33,551
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,123 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -15.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £77,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +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 264 315 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.09% 9.18% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 186 120 214
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,000 £31,813 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £40,271
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -0.67% -15.22%
75th Percentile £38,750 £50,813 £56,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -25.23% +2.88% -0.95%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +38 6 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Nottinghamshire +10 5 £26,500 -44.21% 2
Leicestershire +2 1 £41,000 +20.59% 11
Lincolnshire -12 1 £55,000 -12.00% 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) IaaS
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) WAN
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) Network Security
3 5 (33.33%) Ethernet
4 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (13.33%) MPLS
7 1 (6.67%) BGP
7 1 (6.67%) DHCP
7 1 (6.67%) DNS
7 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (6.67%) IPv4
7 1 (6.67%) IPv6
7 1 (6.67%) OSPF
7 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.67%) VLAN
7 1 (6.67%) VPLS
7 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Customer Support Technician
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Support Technician
3 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Services Manager
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) AIX
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
1 6 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Break/Fix
3 4 (26.67%) ISMS
3 4 (26.67%) IT Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (26.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) ITSM
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Transition Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Autotask
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Aruba
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki