LAN Jobs in England

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 131 224
Rank change year-on-year -61 +93 +33
Permanent jobs citing LAN 742 1,757 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.63% 2.07% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.11% 14.45% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 613 1,488 1,216
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,200 £33,750 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £58,563
90th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £71,375
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,658 12,162 14,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.39% 14.32% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,714 8,622 7,518
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in England

LAN
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in England.

Salary trend for LAN in England

LAN
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London -50 214 £55,000 - 163
North of England -55 150 £42,500 +6.25% 89
Midlands -24 132 £50,000 +19.76% 43
South East +5 118 £40,000 -5.88% 85
West Midlands -3 111 £45,000 +14.92% 23
North West -71 81 £47,500 +11.76% 34
Yorkshire +2 62 £40,000 -5.88% 47
East of England -3 57 £45,000 +5.88% 50
South West -9 51 £48,750 -0.51% 39
East Midlands +16 21 £60,000 +33.33% 20
North East +23 7 £40,000 +6.67% 10
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 118 (15.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.94%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.40%) WordPress
5 2 (0.27%) Confluence
5 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 99 (13.34%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.91%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.67%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.27%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 355 (47.84%) Azure
2 260 (35.04%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (12.53%) Entra ID
4 88 (11.86%) AWS
5 34 (4.58%) GCP
6 32 (4.31%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.70%) Mimecast
8 16 (2.16%) SaaS
9 13 (1.75%) IaaS
10 9 (1.21%) PaaS
11 8 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (1.08%) GitHub
12 7 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.94%) Google Workspace
13 6 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Direct Connect
14 4 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.54%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.54%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 642 (86.52%) WAN
2 339 (45.69%) Firewall
3 228 (30.73%) VPN
4 136 (18.33%) TCP/IP
4 136 (18.33%) Wireless
5 135 (18.19%) DNS
6 121 (16.31%) DHCP
7 114 (15.36%) Wi-Fi
8 106 (14.29%) SD-WAN
9 104 (14.02%) BGP
10 91 (12.26%) MPLS
11 90 (12.13%) VoIP
12 88 (11.86%) Network Security
13 78 (10.51%) OSPF
14 73 (9.84%) VLAN
15 65 (8.76%) Internet
16 62 (8.36%) WLAN
17 49 (6.60%) IPsec
18 45 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
19 37 (4.99%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.81%) JIRA
3 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
4 3 (0.40%) Git
5 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
General
1 278 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 81 (10.92%) Finance
3 57 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.74%) Retail
5 43 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.58%) Telecoms
8 33 (4.45%) Banking
9 24 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.62%) Legal
14 11 (1.48%) Law
15 8 (1.08%) Automotive
16 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.67%) Local Government
17 5 (0.67%) Police
18 4 (0.54%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 124 (16.71%) IT Support
1 124 (16.71%) Network Engineer
2 110 (14.82%) Support Engineer
3 92 (12.40%) Architect
4 71 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 67 (9.03%) Senior
6 61 (8.22%) Network Architect
7 59 (7.95%) Analyst
8 52 (7.01%) IT Engineer
9 50 (6.74%) 2nd Line Support
10 42 (5.66%) Lead
11 39 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 38 (5.12%) Infrastructure Support
12 38 (5.12%) Junior
13 37 (4.99%) 3rd Line Support
14 36 (4.85%) Support Specialist
15 35 (4.72%) IT Support Specialist
16 33 (4.45%) Cisco Engineer
17 32 (4.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 32 (4.31%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.96%) JSON
2 21 (2.83%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.35%) LDAP
4 5 (0.67%) Middleware
5 4 (0.54%) HTML
5 4 (0.54%) SOAP
5 4 (0.54%) XML
5 4 (0.54%) XSLT
6 3 (0.40%) EDI
7 1 (0.13%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Identity Foundation
7 1 (0.13%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.07%) Data Centre
2 45 (6.06%) Driving Licence
3 42 (5.66%) CCTV
4 41 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 20 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 19 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.16%) Client/Server
9 15 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.35%) iPhone
13 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.81%) IoT
14 6 (0.81%) PMI
14 6 (0.81%) Social Media
15 5 (0.67%) Mobile Computing
15 5 (0.67%) Replication
15 5 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 356 (47.98%) Windows
2 174 (23.45%) Windows Server
3 85 (11.46%) Windows 10
4 57 (7.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 56 (7.55%) Linux
6 48 (6.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (5.39%) Mac OS
8 32 (4.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (3.10%) Apple iOS
10 18 (2.43%) Android
11 11 (1.48%) Unix
12 10 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.94%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.67%) VMS
14 5 (0.67%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.27%) Solaris
16 1 (0.13%) CentOS
16 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (16.98%) ITIL
3 102 (13.75%) Customer Service
4 83 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 79 (10.65%) Cybersecurity
6 68 (9.16%) Migration
7 53 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
8 52 (7.01%) Business Continuity
8 52 (7.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 52 (7.01%) Presales
9 51 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (6.74%) Change Management
11 49 (6.60%) Network Design
12 45 (6.06%) Network Management
13 43 (5.80%) Mentoring
14 42 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (5.39%) Incident Management
16 34 (4.58%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (4.18%) High Availability
17 31 (4.18%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (10.51%) PowerShell
2 58 (7.82%) Python
3 42 (5.66%) SQL
4 14 (1.89%) Bash
5 10 (1.35%) Perl
6 6 (0.81%) C++
7 4 (0.54%) C
7 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.54%) Jython
8 3 (0.40%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) R
9 1 (0.13%) Scala
9 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 200 (26.95%) Cisco Certification
2 129 (17.39%) CCNA
3 126 (16.98%) Degree
4 111 (14.96%) CCNP
5 97 (13.07%) Security Cleared
6 70 (9.43%) SC Cleared
7 66 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (6.87%) CCIE
9 38 (5.12%) JNCIA
10 28 (3.77%) Azure Certification
11 26 (3.50%) JNCIS
12 21 (2.83%) DV Cleared
12 21 (2.83%) MCSA
13 19 (2.56%) Master's Degree
13 19 (2.56%) MBA
14 16 (2.16%) MCP
15 15 (2.02%) A+ Certification
15 15 (2.02%) MCSE
15 15 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (1.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.49%) SLA
2 19 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.81%) GDPR
6 6 (0.81%) NIST
7 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 274 (36.93%) Active Directory
2 125 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (9.70%) Hyper-V
4 32 (4.31%) VMware NSX
5 22 (2.96%) XenApp
6 21 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.75%) Firmware
8 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.81%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.81%) vSphere
11 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.54%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.40%) KVM
14 2 (0.27%) NFS
14 2 (0.27%) SRDF
14 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 112 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (7.68%) Ansible
3 53 (7.14%) Terraform
4 36 (4.85%) FortiGate
5 31 (4.18%) SCCM
6 11 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (1.48%) SCOM
7 9 (1.21%) NetBackup
7 9 (1.21%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.94%) Puppet
9 6 (0.81%) QRadar
9 6 (0.81%) WSUS
10 5 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.67%) PaperCut
10 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.67%) SmoothWall
11 4 (0.54%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.54%) Iperf
11 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 364 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 320 (43.13%) Cisco
3 173 (23.32%) VMware
4 104 (14.02%) Juniper
5 92 (12.40%) Fortinet
6 88 (11.86%) Palo Alto
7 74 (9.97%) Meraki
8 72 (9.70%) CheckPoint
9 57 (7.68%) Aruba
10 51 (6.87%) Citrix
11 49 (6.60%) F5
12 36 (4.85%) SolarWinds
13 34 (4.58%) Google
14 32 (4.31%) Veeam
15 29 (3.91%) Apple
16 28 (3.77%) ServiceNow
17 24 (3.23%) Dell
17 24 (3.23%) HP
18 21 (2.83%) Blue Coat
19 19 (2.56%) Unisys