LAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Local Area Network (LAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 172 160
Rank change year-on-year +60 -12 -9
Permanent jobs citing LAN 65 71 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.92% 1.06% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.04% 7.40% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 57 63 53
10th Percentile £22,750 £34,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £70,500
South East median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 540 960 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.94% 14.30% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 216 676 534
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,688 £34,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £58,438
90th Percentile £75,625 £69,750 £74,138
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire +30 33 £45,000 +7.14% 16
Oxfordshire +30 25 £40,000 -3.03% 8
Buckinghamshire +39 7 £65,000 +44.44% 3
LAN
South East

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.23%) IBM Domino
3 4 (6.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (100.00%) WAN
2 33 (50.77%) Internet
3 24 (36.92%) Wireless
4 14 (21.54%) Firewall
5 10 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (9.23%) MPLS
6 6 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (7.69%) BGP
7 5 (7.69%) DHCP
7 5 (7.69%) DNS
8 4 (6.15%) IPsec
8 4 (6.15%) Junos
8 4 (6.15%) SAN
8 4 (6.15%) VLAN
9 3 (4.62%) DWDM
9 3 (4.62%) VPN
10 2 (3.08%) DMZ
10 2 (3.08%) Network Security
10 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
10 2 (3.08%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 26 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Finance
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure Support
1 19 (29.23%) Network Support
2 12 (18.46%) IT Support
3 8 (12.31%) Trainee
3 8 (12.31%) Trainee IT Support
4 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Lead
4 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Platform Support Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Support Technician
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Virtual Team
2 4 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.15%) Replication
3 3 (4.62%) Social Media
4 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (73.85%) Windows
2 8 (12.31%) Mac OS
2 8 (12.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.23%) Android
4 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) ITIL
2 13 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (10.77%) Migration
4 6 (9.23%) Customer Experience
4 6 (9.23%) Network Design
4 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (9.23%) User Experience
5 5 (7.69%) Business Continuity
5 5 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (6.15%) Agile
6 4 (6.15%) Change Control
6 4 (6.15%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (6.15%) Information Security
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.15%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (6.15%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (32.31%) Degree
2 19 (29.23%) Master's Degree
2 19 (29.23%) MBA
3 8 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.77%) CCNP
5 6 (9.23%) CCNA
6 5 (7.69%) JNCIS
6 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
7 3 (4.62%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.54%) CCIE
8 1 (1.54%) CEH
8 1 (1.54%) CISA
8 1 (1.54%) CISSP
8 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (7.69%) SLA
2 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Firmware
4 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.15%) Ansible
2 4 (6.15%) SCCM
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 4 (6.15%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.15%) WSUS
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (32.31%) Cisco
3 19 (29.23%) Unisys
4 11 (16.92%) VMware
5 10 (15.38%) Palo Alto
6 5 (7.69%) Juniper
7 4 (6.15%) arcserve
7 4 (6.15%) Aruba
7 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
7 4 (6.15%) Mellanox
7 4 (6.15%) NVIDIA
8 2 (3.08%) Apple
9 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.54%) Nokia
9 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow