LAN Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Local Area Network (LAN)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 66 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 +21
Permanent jobs citing LAN 4 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.51% 1.50% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.94% 15.94% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £48,800 £30,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £34,625 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -6.25% -18.51%
75th Percentile £75,625 £65,375 £47,531
90th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £50,427
North East median annual salary £46,000 £41,000 £39,005
% change year-on-year +12.20% +5.11% -2.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 81 69 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.31% 9.39% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 69 38 94
10th Percentile £21,620 £32,850 £25,900
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £44,274 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +10.69% -2.44%
75th Percentile £32,750 £63,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £66,000 £73,750 £85,000
North East median annual salary £29,000 £46,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -37.30% +15.63% +1.91%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

LAN job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

LAN
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LAN in Tyne and Wear

LAN
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 4 £65,000 +46.07% 1
LAN
North East

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Aruba
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) VMware