LAN Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Local Area Network (LAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 71 67
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 +44
Permanent jobs citing LAN 8 6 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.23% 0.95% 3.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.00% 8.22% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 31
10th Percentile £21,000 - £31,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £27,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £28,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -42.86% +15.29%
75th Percentile £58,125 £29,000 £51,500
90th Percentile £83,000 - £54,000
South West median annual salary £32,500 £34,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% -29.59% +11.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 73 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.72% 11.53% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 120
10th Percentile £16,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £18,500 £37,188 £32,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £53,195 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +8.56% -2.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £74,500 £67,750
South West median annual salary £34,000 £51,058 £49,000
% change year-on-year -33.41% +4.20% +3.16%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

LAN job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

LAN
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LAN in Gloucestershire

LAN
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Cheltenham +4 2 £56,250 +100.89% 1
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
Gloucester - 1 £115,000 -
LAN
South West

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) VSAN
4 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (25.00%) VLAN
6 1 (12.50%) Firewall
6 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 1 (12.50%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) CentOS
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (37.50%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) McAfee
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet