LAN Jobs in the Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 171 142
Rank change year-on-year +65 -29 -21
Permanent jobs citing LAN 272 160 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.33% 1.67% 2.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.14% 9.31% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 218 132 235
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,250 £52,000 £55,125
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,587 1,719 1,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.62% 17.96% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 720 1,091
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,125 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -0.86% -2.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +90 203 £40,313 -4.58% 43
East Midlands -6 61 £45,000 +20.00% 18
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 36 (13.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 43 (15.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.74%) Shopify
4 1 (0.37%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (27.57%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (25.00%) Azure
3 21 (7.72%) Entra ID
4 10 (3.68%) AWS
5 5 (1.84%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.10%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.10%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.74%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.74%) SaaS
8 1 (0.37%) GCP
8 1 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (86.76%) WAN
2 86 (31.62%) Firewall
3 72 (26.47%) WLAN
4 65 (23.90%) SD-WAN
5 62 (22.79%) TCP/IP
6 60 (22.06%) DNS
7 58 (21.32%) MPLS
8 54 (19.85%) DHCP
9 45 (16.54%) BGP
10 44 (16.18%) Wireless
11 43 (15.81%) OSPF
12 33 (12.13%) VPN
13 32 (11.76%) VLAN
14 27 (9.93%) SAN
14 27 (9.93%) Wi-Fi
15 26 (9.56%) VoIP
16 17 (6.25%) Network Security
17 14 (5.15%) Intrusion Detection
18 10 (3.68%) Ethernet
19 9 (3.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.74%) MySQL
3 2 (0.74%) Power BI
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.29%) Finance
3 24 (8.82%) Retail
4 18 (6.62%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.04%) Law
8 9 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.94%) Local Government
10 5 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (1.10%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.74%) Back Office
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
13 2 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Automotive
14 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (23.90%) Analyst
2 44 (16.18%) Network Analyst
3 42 (15.44%) Network Operations Analyst
3 42 (15.44%) Operations Analyst
4 35 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.56%) IT Support
6 24 (8.82%) Network Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Senior
6 24 (8.82%) Support Engineer
7 23 (8.46%) Developer
7 23 (8.46%) Software Developer
8 22 (8.09%) Administrator
9 20 (7.35%) IT Technician
10 17 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
11 14 (5.15%) IT Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Support Technician
13 12 (4.41%) 1st Line Support
13 12 (4.41%) Help Desk Analyst
14 11 (4.04%) IT Support Technician
15 10 (3.68%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.46%) AngularJS
1 23 (8.46%) CSS
1 23 (8.46%) Express.js
1 23 (8.46%) HTML
1 23 (8.46%) HTML5
1 23 (8.46%) Node.js
1 23 (8.46%) React
1 23 (8.46%) XML
2 2 (0.74%) LDAP
2 2 (0.74%) SAML
2 2 (0.74%) ServiceStack
2 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.29%) Driving Licence
2 21 (7.72%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.04%) Wiki
5 8 (2.94%) IoT
6 7 (2.57%) CCTV
6 7 (2.57%) FMCG
7 6 (2.21%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.47%) Clustering
8 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 3 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) Replication
10 2 (0.74%) EPoS
10 2 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 94 (34.56%) Windows
2 55 (20.22%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.82%) Windows 10
4 13 (4.78%) Windows 7
5 10 (3.68%) Linux
5 10 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.57%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.47%) Android
8 4 (1.47%) CentOS
8 4 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.47%) VMS
9 3 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.10%) SUSE
9 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.74%) Unix
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (10.66%) Customer Service
4 25 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (8.46%) Web Development
6 22 (8.09%) Patch Management
7 20 (7.35%) Change Management
8 19 (6.99%) ITIL
9 18 (6.62%) CRM
10 17 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
11 16 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (5.88%) Project Delivery
12 14 (5.15%) ERP
12 14 (5.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (4.78%) Asset Management
13 13 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (4.78%) Migration
13 13 (4.78%) Roadmaps
14 12 (4.41%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.65%) SQL
2 40 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 36 (13.24%) Python
4 23 (8.46%) JavaScript
4 23 (8.46%) JSX
4 23 (8.46%) PHP
4 23 (8.46%) VB
5 11 (4.04%) Perl
6 6 (2.21%) Bash
7 2 (0.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (22.43%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (19.85%) Degree
3 51 (18.75%) CCNP
4 50 (18.38%) CCNA
5 38 (13.97%) CCIE
6 33 (12.13%) CCDP
7 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.31%) DBS Check
9 8 (2.94%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.94%) MCSE
10 7 (2.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 6 (2.21%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.21%) Security Cleared
12 5 (1.84%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.47%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.47%) MCSA
14 3 (1.10%) CCDA
14 3 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.74%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.57%) SLA
3 6 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 94 (34.56%) Active Directory
2 38 (13.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.31%) vSphere
5 7 (2.57%) Firmware
6 6 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (8.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.84%) Autotask
3 4 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.47%) SCCM
3 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.10%) Terraform
4 3 (1.10%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.74%) Nagios
Vendors
1 126 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 55 (20.22%) Cisco
3 52 (19.12%) VMware
4 29 (10.66%) Juniper
5 17 (6.25%) Veeam
6 16 (5.88%) Aruba
7 15 (5.51%) HP
8 14 (5.15%) Sophos
9 13 (4.78%) Citrix
9 13 (4.78%) Meraki
10 11 (4.04%) Dell
10 11 (4.04%) Ruckus Wireless
11 10 (3.68%) Apple
12 8 (2.94%) Ekahau
13 7 (2.57%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.57%) Nokia
13 7 (2.57%) Palo Alto
14 6 (2.21%) Ericsson
14 6 (2.21%) SolarWinds
15 5 (1.84%) F5