LAN Jobs in the North of England

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 120 148
Rank change year-on-year -75 +28 +14
Permanent jobs citing LAN 147 385 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 2.20% 2.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.90% 17.74% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 135 324 302
10th Percentile £26,550 £24,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,563 £31,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £43,944
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.40% -2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,861 2,170 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.10% 12.40% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 888 1,660 1,259
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £73,791 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the North of England

LAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for LAN in the North of England

LAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in the North of England

LAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West -94 79 £47,500 +11.76% 27
Yorkshire -1 63 £40,000 -5.88% 20
North East +14 5 £62,250 +64.90% 11
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.36%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.25%) Azure
2 42 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.12%) OneDrive
5 6 (4.08%) AWS
6 5 (3.40%) GitHub
7 4 (2.72%) Azure Stack
8 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.36%) GCP
9 2 (1.36%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 105 (71.43%) WAN
2 83 (56.46%) Firewall
3 39 (26.53%) VPN
4 35 (23.81%) DNS
5 29 (19.73%) TCP/IP
5 29 (19.73%) Wireless
6 27 (18.37%) DHCP
7 21 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (13.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 14 (9.52%) Network Security
9 14 (9.52%) VLAN
10 9 (6.12%) VoIP
11 7 (4.76%) Internet
12 6 (4.08%) DWDM
12 6 (4.08%) IPv4
12 6 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (4.08%) SD-WAN
12 6 (4.08%) WLAN
13 5 (3.40%) SAN
14 4 (2.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.36%) Power BI
1 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.04%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.36%) JIRA
General
1 63 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (7.48%) Manufacturing
4 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.44%) Retail
7 7 (4.76%) Automotive
7 7 (4.76%) Finance
8 5 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.72%) Law
9 4 (2.72%) Multimedia
9 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.04%) Banking
10 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Legal
11 2 (1.36%) Local Government
11 2 (1.36%) Police
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Architect
2 28 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (17.01%) Junior
4 24 (16.33%) Junior Architect
4 24 (16.33%) Junior Solutions Architect
5 23 (15.65%) Senior
6 19 (12.93%) Network Engineer
7 18 (12.24%) Analyst
8 17 (11.56%) IT Support
9 16 (10.88%) Consultant
10 13 (8.84%) Technical Support
11 12 (8.16%) IT Analyst
11 12 (8.16%) Service Desk Engineer
12 11 (7.48%) Support Analyst
13 10 (6.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 10 (6.80%) IT Engineer
13 10 (6.80%) Network Consultant
13 10 (6.80%) Senior Consultant
13 10 (6.80%) Senior Network Consultant
14 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.04%) HTML
1 3 (2.04%) SOAP
1 3 (2.04%) XML
1 3 (2.04%) XSLT
2 2 (1.36%) LDAP
2 2 (1.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.40%) CCTV
4 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.36%) Clustering
6 2 (1.36%) PKI
6 2 (1.36%) Replication
6 2 (1.36%) Social Media
6 2 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.68%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 67 (45.58%) Windows
2 27 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 20 (13.61%) Linux
4 9 (6.12%) Unix
5 6 (4.08%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.72%) Mac OS X
6 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.04%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.36%) Solaris
8 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.09%) Presales
2 29 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (14.29%) Migration
4 14 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (9.52%) ITIL
5 12 (8.16%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (6.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (6.12%) Business Continuity
7 9 (6.12%) Change Management
7 9 (6.12%) Customer Service
7 9 (6.12%) Incident Management
8 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (5.44%) Network Architecture
8 8 (5.44%) Service Delivery
8 8 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (4.76%) Asset Management
9 7 (4.76%) Computer Science
9 7 (4.76%) Mentoring
9 7 (4.76%) Network Management
9 7 (4.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.20%) SQL
2 13 (8.84%) Python
3 10 (6.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.72%) Bash
5 3 (2.04%) C
5 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.04%) Jython
5 3 (2.04%) Perl
6 2 (1.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (36.73%) Cisco Certification
2 42 (28.57%) CCNA
3 33 (22.45%) JNCIA
4 20 (13.61%) CCNP
5 14 (9.52%) Degree
6 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
6 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
7 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (6.80%) CCIE
9 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (4.08%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.36%) MCSA
10 2 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.04%) ISO 14001
1 3 (2.04%) ISO 9001
1 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.36%) GDPR
2 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 20 (13.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.08%) Terminal Services
5 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.36%) KVM
6 2 (1.36%) NFS
6 2 (1.36%) SRDF
6 2 (1.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.36%) Xen
7 1 (0.68%) RHEV
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.16%) Ansible
3 10 (6.80%) Terraform
4 6 (4.08%) SCCM
5 4 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.04%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.36%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.36%) Puppet
7 2 (1.36%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 72 (48.98%) Cisco
2 66 (44.90%) Microsoft
3 36 (24.49%) Aruba
4 35 (23.81%) Fortinet
5 32 (21.77%) Juniper
6 29 (19.73%) Palo Alto
6 29 (19.73%) VMware
7 8 (5.44%) Meraki
8 7 (4.76%) Apple
8 7 (4.76%) Veeam
9 6 (4.08%) Arista
9 6 (4.08%) Oracle
10 4 (2.72%) Mellanox
10 4 (2.72%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.04%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.04%) Veritas
12 2 (1.36%) Kaseya
12 2 (1.36%) NetApp
12 2 (1.36%) SolarWinds