LAN Jobs in Lancashire

Local Area Network (LAN)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 74 50
Rank change year-on-year -54 -24 +43
Permanent jobs citing LAN 30 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.29% 1.07% 3.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.18% 11.48% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 30 14 24
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,563 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% +1.25% -
75th Percentile £60,313 £43,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £56,375 £43,375
North West median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 579 122 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 24.88% 9.28% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 75 115 64
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,400 £23,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £53,875
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Lancashire

LAN
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for LAN in Lancashire

LAN
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Lancashire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in Lancashire

LAN
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Blackburn - 5 £42,500 -
Lancaster +17 4 £56,250 +139.36%
Preston -20 4 £56,250 +2.27% 1
Blackpool -30 4 £56,250 +32.35% 1
LAN
North West

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (83.33%) Firewall
1 25 (83.33%) WAN
2 5 (16.67%) DHCP
2 5 (16.67%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) IPv4
2 5 (16.67%) VLAN
2 5 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 20 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Architect
1 18 (60.00%) Junior
1 18 (60.00%) Junior Architect
1 18 (60.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
1 18 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Juniper Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) WAN Consultant
3 2 (6.67%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Unix
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Presales
2 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
2 5 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) CCNA
1 20 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 20 (66.67%) JNCIA
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Aruba
1 20 (66.67%) Cisco
1 20 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 20 (66.67%) Juniper
1 20 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Veeam
3 2 (6.67%) VMware