LAN Jobs in the South West

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 136 142
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +52
Permanent jobs citing LAN 75 176 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.92% 1.74% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.29% 14.39% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 58 145 96
10th Percentile £28,675 £26,450 £30,725
25th Percentile £30,531 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £38,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% -5.00% -1.84%
75th Percentile £53,125 £50,250 £43,875
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,918 £60,625
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 729 1,223 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.63% 12.07% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 434 895 579
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,500 £28,125
25th Percentile £26,625 £31,875 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £67,350 £72,500 £78,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -4.76%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the South West

LAN
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for LAN in the South West

LAN
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the South West over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in the South West

LAN
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Dorset +36 19 £29,500 -21.33% 4
Bristol +50 18 £56,250 +50.00% 4
Wiltshire +27 13 £36,000 -27.27% 4
Gloucestershire +28 9 £45,000 - 8
Devon -9 7 £32,500 -18.75% 4
Cornwall +5 6 £31,750 +11.40%
Somerset +14 3 £42,500 +66.67% 6
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (30.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (28.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (50.67%) Azure
3 26 (34.67%) Entra ID
4 14 (18.67%) OneDrive
5 7 (9.33%) AWS
5 7 (9.33%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.00%) IaaS
6 3 (4.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 60 (80.00%) WAN
2 37 (49.33%) Firewall
3 33 (44.00%) VPN
4 27 (36.00%) DHCP
4 27 (36.00%) DNS
5 20 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (24.00%) VLAN
7 17 (22.67%) Wireless
8 11 (14.67%) SD-WAN
9 8 (10.67%) IPsec
10 7 (9.33%) Internet
10 7 (9.33%) Kerberos
10 7 (9.33%) WLAN
11 6 (8.00%) Network Security
11 6 (8.00%) VoIP
12 5 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (6.67%) MPLS
12 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
13 4 (5.33%) BGP
14 3 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 7 (9.33%) Advertising
3 7 (9.33%) Law
4 6 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.67%) Automotive
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Analyst
2 20 (26.67%) Support Analyst
3 16 (21.33%) IT Support
4 15 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 14 (18.67%) Network Engineer
6 12 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (12.00%) IT Engineer
9 7 (9.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 7 (9.33%) Technical Support
10 6 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) Desktop Support
11 5 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 5 (6.67%) IT Analyst
11 5 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
11 5 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) LDAP
2 1 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (9.33%) PKI
3 6 (8.00%) Smartphone
4 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.33%) Handset
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (53.33%) Windows
2 33 (44.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (17.33%) Windows 10
4 11 (14.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (14.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (13.33%) Linux
6 7 (9.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (21.33%) ITIL
3 12 (16.00%) CRM
4 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
4 11 (14.67%) ITSM
5 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (10.67%) Line Management
7 7 (9.33%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (9.33%) Time Management
8 6 (8.00%) Migration
9 5 (6.67%) Asset Management
9 5 (6.67%) Business Continuity
9 5 (6.67%) Case Management
9 5 (6.67%) Incident Management
9 5 (6.67%) Process Improvement
9 5 (6.67%) Server Virtualisation
9 5 (6.67%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.33%) VB
3 5 (6.67%) SQL
4 3 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (9.33%) CCNA
4 6 (8.00%) CCNP
4 6 (8.00%) Degree
4 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.67%) CCIE
6 4 (5.33%) MCSA
7 3 (4.00%) A+ Certification
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.00%) MCP
7 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (25.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.67%) vSphere
5 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.67%) XenApp
7 1 (1.33%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.67%) Autotask
3 7 (9.33%) WSUS
4 4 (5.33%) Terraform
5 3 (4.00%) Ansible
5 3 (4.00%) Iperf
5 3 (4.00%) SCCM
6 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (36.00%) VMware
3 21 (28.00%) Cisco
4 13 (17.33%) Meraki
5 9 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (9.33%) Google
6 7 (9.33%) Palo Alto
7 6 (8.00%) Apple
7 6 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.00%) Citrix
7 6 (8.00%) Veeam
8 5 (6.67%) Cognizant
8 5 (6.67%) LexisNexis
8 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
9 4 (5.33%) Aruba
10 3 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.00%) F5
10 3 (4.00%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (4.00%) SonicWALL
10 3 (4.00%) Zscaler