LAN Jobs in the South East

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 188 179
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 -15
Permanent jobs citing LAN 268 261 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 1.72% 2.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.70% 9.89% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 248 196 327
10th Percentile £21,250 £23,500 £28,350
25th Percentile £33,500 £27,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,475 £62,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,764 2,639 3,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.64% 17.36% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 1,549 1,853
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,875 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,100 £77,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the South East

LAN
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
Hampshire +7 91 £45,000 +50.00% 19
Thames Valley -7 76 £42,000 -3.45% 15
Surrey +36 52 £49,000 +40.00% 4
Berkshire +24 47 £42,000 +29.23% 9
Kent -17 31 £22,500 -42.31% 1
Oxfordshire +21 27 £42,500 -10.53% 3
East Sussex +26 9 £55,000 +18.92% 4
West Sussex +31 6 £40,000 +6.67% 3
Buckinghamshire -51 2 £45,000 -7.45% 3
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (13.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 62 (23.13%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 123 (45.90%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (32.46%) Azure
3 34 (12.69%) AWS
4 23 (8.58%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.10%) SaaS
6 10 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.99%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.87%) IaaS
9 4 (1.49%) PaaS
10 3 (1.12%) Dropbox
10 3 (1.12%) Google Drive
10 3 (1.12%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.75%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Akamai
12 1 (0.37%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 203 (75.75%) WAN
2 101 (37.69%) Firewall
3 81 (30.22%) Wireless
4 59 (22.01%) Wi-Fi
5 53 (19.78%) VPN
6 47 (17.54%) DNS
7 45 (16.79%) TCP/IP
8 42 (15.67%) VLAN
9 35 (13.06%) DHCP
10 21 (7.84%) Broadband
10 21 (7.84%) Network Security
11 19 (7.09%) ADSL
11 19 (7.09%) OSPF
12 16 (5.97%) SD-WAN
12 16 (5.97%) VoIP
13 15 (5.60%) WLAN
14 13 (4.85%) Internet
15 12 (4.48%) BGP
16 11 (4.10%) SAN
16 11 (4.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.48%) MySQL
2 7 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.24%) InfluxDB
3 6 (2.24%) MariaDB
3 6 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.24%) JIRA
3 5 (1.87%) Git
4 4 (1.49%) MSBuild
4 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 121 (45.15%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.69%) Telecoms
3 24 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (6.34%) Finance
5 12 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.73%) Advertising
6 10 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.99%) Legal
8 7 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.49%) Automotive
9 4 (1.49%) Games
10 3 (1.12%) Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Electronics
10 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (27.61%) Network Engineer
2 56 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 55 (20.52%) Support Engineer
4 34 (12.69%) Senior
5 23 (8.58%) Analyst
6 22 (8.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.84%) Network Support
8 19 (7.09%) IT Support
9 18 (6.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 17 (6.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.97%) 3rd Line Support
11 16 (5.97%) Network Support Engineer
12 15 (5.60%) Infrastructure Support
12 15 (5.60%) IT Engineer
12 15 (5.60%) Project Engineer
13 13 (4.85%) Desktop Engineer
13 13 (4.85%) Desktop Support
13 13 (4.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 13 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (4.48%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.49%) .NET
2 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.37%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.37%) LDAP
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.06%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.96%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.72%) PKI
4 13 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.48%) CCTV
5 12 (4.48%) NHS
6 11 (4.10%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.87%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) PMI
9 4 (1.49%) Clustering
9 4 (1.49%) Replication
9 4 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.12%) EPoS
11 2 (0.75%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 147 (54.85%) Windows
2 61 (22.76%) Windows Server
3 57 (21.27%) Windows 10
4 23 (8.58%) Linux
5 21 (7.84%) Mac OS
6 17 (6.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (5.97%) Windows 7
7 16 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (5.60%) Apple iOS
9 14 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (4.48%) Android
11 8 (2.99%) Ubuntu
11 8 (2.99%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (2.24%) CentOS
12 6 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (2.24%) Windows 8
13 5 (1.87%) Windows XP
14 4 (1.49%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.37%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.87%) Customer Service
2 65 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (23.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (13.06%) ITIL
5 26 (9.70%) Service Delivery
6 20 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (7.09%) Information Security
8 17 (6.34%) Incident Management
9 16 (5.97%) Presales
10 15 (5.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (5.60%) Mentoring
11 14 (5.22%) Project Delivery
12 13 (4.85%) Customer Requirements
13 12 (4.48%) Software Deployment
13 12 (4.48%) Software Testing
14 11 (4.10%) Decision-Making
14 11 (4.10%) Infrastructure Management
14 11 (4.10%) Mathematics
14 11 (4.10%) Project Management
14 11 (4.10%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.81%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.72%) Bash
2 18 (6.72%) Python
3 6 (2.24%) SQL
4 5 (1.87%) Perl
5 1 (0.37%) Korn
5 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (17.54%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (14.18%) CCNA
3 32 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (10.07%) Degree
5 24 (8.96%) Security Cleared
6 20 (7.46%) Network+ Certification
7 19 (7.09%) MCITP
8 15 (5.60%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.48%) DBS Check
9 12 (4.48%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.73%) MCP
11 8 (2.99%) CCIE
11 8 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.99%) MCSE
12 6 (2.24%) CCNP
12 6 (2.24%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.87%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.49%) JNCIA
15 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (3.73%) GDPR
2 10 (3.73%) SLA
3 6 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (28.73%) Active Directory
2 50 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (16.79%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.22%) Firmware
5 11 (4.10%) vSphere
6 10 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.75%) Docker
8 2 (0.75%) KVM
8 2 (0.75%) QEMU
8 2 (0.75%) Xen
9 1 (0.37%) NFS
9 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (6.72%) SCCM
2 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.85%) FortiGate
4 10 (3.73%) Ansible
5 8 (2.99%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.24%) SmoothWall
6 6 (2.24%) Terraform
7 5 (1.87%) Puppet
7 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 5 (1.87%) VxRail
8 4 (1.49%) WSUS
9 3 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.37%) Nessus
11 1 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 145 (54.10%) Microsoft
2 84 (31.34%) VMware
3 79 (29.48%) Cisco
4 31 (11.57%) Aruba
5 29 (10.82%) HP
6 25 (9.33%) Juniper
7 17 (6.34%) Fortinet
7 17 (6.34%) Meraki
8 16 (5.97%) Google
9 12 (4.48%) Dell
10 9 (3.36%) Ubiquiti
11 7 (2.61%) Mitel
11 7 (2.61%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.24%) Apple
12 6 (2.24%) Citrix
12 6 (2.24%) Draytek
12 6 (2.24%) Veeam
13 5 (1.87%) BT
13 5 (1.87%) WatchGuard
14 4 (1.49%) Webroot