LAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 188 184
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -27
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,279 1,119 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.79% 1.90% 2.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.11% 10.35% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 826 1,163
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £51,938 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,755 10,808 11,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 18.31% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,074 4,700 6,477
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,952
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +33 386 £40,000 -11.11% 84
Midlands +45 250 £42,000 +9.09% 45
South East +2 239 £45,000 +12.50% 45
North West +17 208 £42,500 -5.56% 58
West Midlands +76 204 £40,313 -1.68% 27
South West +52 195 £42,500 +0.59% 24
Yorkshire +65 153 £42,500 -5.56% 22
East of England +25 141 £43,750 +9.38% 29
Scotland -73 44 £35,000 -11.39% 7
North East -16 38 £38,000 -10.59% 4
East Midlands -32 37 £45,000 +21.27% 18
Wales +28 35 £40,500 -10.00% 9
Northern Ireland +7 7 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 158 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (10.63%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.09%) IIS
4 12 (0.94%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.94%) SharePoint 2013
5 8 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.078%) Apache
9 1 (0.078%) Confluence
9 1 (0.078%) nginx
Applications
1 179 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.31%) Epicor Tropos
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.078%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 515 (40.27%) Microsoft 365
2 463 (36.20%) Azure
3 164 (12.82%) Entra ID
4 100 (7.82%) AWS
5 59 (4.61%) OneDrive
6 38 (2.97%) SaaS
7 31 (2.42%) IaaS
8 30 (2.35%) GCP
9 29 (2.27%) PaaS
10 22 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (1.56%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.17%) Mimecast
13 14 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.63%) Google Workspace
16 7 (0.55%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.55%) Serverless
16 7 (0.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,064 (83.19%) WAN
2 492 (38.47%) Firewall
3 291 (22.75%) Wi-Fi
4 278 (21.74%) VPN
5 274 (21.42%) TCP/IP
6 253 (19.78%) DNS
7 250 (19.55%) Wireless
8 238 (18.61%) DHCP
9 204 (15.95%) WLAN
10 139 (10.87%) Network Security
11 127 (9.93%) SD-WAN
12 126 (9.85%) VLAN
13 124 (9.70%) MPLS
14 113 (8.84%) OSPF
15 108 (8.44%) BGP
16 89 (6.96%) VoIP
17 84 (6.57%) SAN
18 75 (5.86%) Internet
19 43 (3.36%) Ethernet
20 40 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.33%) MySQL
3 15 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.86%) Power BI
6 7 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.47%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.47%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.31%) QlikView
9 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.23%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.16%) DB2
10 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.02%) JIRA
2 7 (0.55%) Git
2 7 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.31%) MSBuild
3 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.31%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.078%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 403 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 117 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (7.11%) Finance
4 69 (5.39%) Telecoms
5 66 (5.16%) Retail
6 55 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 46 (3.60%) Law
9 43 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (2.19%) Legal
12 18 (1.41%) Police
13 16 (1.25%) Marketing
14 14 (1.09%) Local Government
15 13 (1.02%) Public Sector
16 12 (0.94%) Banking
17 11 (0.86%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.70%) Advertising
18 9 (0.70%) French Language
18 9 (0.70%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 246 (19.23%) Network Engineer
2 214 (16.73%) Analyst
3 181 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 150 (11.73%) Senior
5 132 (10.32%) Support Engineer
6 128 (10.01%) IT Support
7 96 (7.51%) IT Engineer
8 70 (5.47%) IT Analyst
9 58 (4.53%) 2nd Line Support
9 58 (4.53%) Network Analyst
10 57 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 56 (4.38%) Operations Analyst
12 55 (4.30%) Service Analyst
13 54 (4.22%) Lead
13 54 (4.22%) Service Desk Analyst
13 54 (4.22%) Support Analyst
14 51 (3.99%) Network Operations Analyst
15 50 (3.91%) Senior Network Engineer
16 48 (3.75%) Administrator
16 48 (3.75%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.70%) LDAP
2 8 (0.63%) .NET
3 4 (0.31%) Akka
3 4 (0.31%) Web Services
4 3 (0.23%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.23%) Middleware
5 2 (0.16%) HTML
5 2 (0.16%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.16%) Node.js
5 2 (0.16%) React
5 2 (0.16%) RESTful
5 2 (0.16%) SAML
5 2 (0.16%) ServiceStack
6 1 (0.078%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.078%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.078%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 151 (11.81%) Data Centre
2 77 (6.02%) Driving Licence
3 49 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 39 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.50%) CCTV
7 28 (2.19%) PKI
8 24 (1.88%) IoT
9 22 (1.72%) NHS
10 17 (1.33%) Replication
11 16 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 16 (1.25%) Clustering
11 16 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.17%) Fat Client
12 15 (1.17%) Thin Client
13 14 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.02%) Cyberattack
15 12 (0.94%) PMI
16 11 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 589 (46.05%) Windows
2 290 (22.67%) Windows Server
3 162 (12.67%) Windows 10
4 105 (8.21%) Linux
5 72 (5.63%) Android
6 69 (5.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 67 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (3.75%) Apple iOS
9 47 (3.67%) Mac OS
10 44 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 40 (3.13%) Windows 7
12 18 (1.41%) VyOS
13 15 (1.17%) Ubuntu
14 14 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 11 (0.86%) CentOS
16 11 (0.86%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.86%) VMS
17 6 (0.47%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.47%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
2 238 (18.61%) ITIL
3 234 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 222 (17.36%) Customer Service
5 118 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
6 89 (6.96%) Service Delivery
7 86 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 82 (6.41%) Migration
9 81 (6.33%) Project Delivery
10 68 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (5.24%) Change Management
11 67 (5.24%) Mentoring
12 66 (5.16%) Project Management
13 65 (5.08%) Service Management
14 61 (4.77%) Time Management
15 56 (4.38%) Roadmaps
16 54 (4.22%) Patch Management
16 54 (4.22%) Root Cause Analysis
17 52 (4.07%) Presales
18 51 (3.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 145 (11.34%) PowerShell
2 104 (8.13%) SQL
3 57 (4.46%) Python
4 40 (3.13%) Bash
5 17 (1.33%) Perl
6 6 (0.47%) C#
7 3 (0.23%) Java
7 3 (0.23%) PHP
7 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.16%) Bicep
8 2 (0.16%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.078%) Korn
9 1 (0.078%) VBA
Qualifications
1 226 (17.67%) Cisco Certification
2 190 (14.86%) Degree
3 155 (12.12%) CCNA
4 114 (8.91%) Security Cleared
5 108 (8.44%) CCNP
6 69 (5.39%) CCIE
7 67 (5.24%) SC Cleared
8 61 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 48 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (3.44%) CCDP
11 40 (3.13%) DBS Check
12 39 (3.05%) JNCIA
13 38 (2.97%) DV Cleared
14 31 (2.42%) MCSE
15 27 (2.11%) CISSP
16 24 (1.88%) A+ Certification
17 22 (1.72%) PMI Certification
18 20 (1.56%) HND
19 18 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
20 16 (1.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.65%) SLA
2 37 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.33%) GDPR
5 11 (0.86%) NIST
6 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.39%) QA
9 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 1 (0.078%) SOC 2
System Software
1 504 (39.41%) Active Directory
2 251 (19.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 181 (14.15%) Hyper-V
4 62 (4.85%) vSphere
5 32 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.72%) Firmware
7 22 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (1.02%) XenApp
9 11 (0.86%) XenDesktop
10 7 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 6 (0.47%) Docker
11 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.39%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) KVM
15 2 (0.16%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 158 (12.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (5.24%) SCCM
3 31 (2.42%) WSUS
4 24 (1.88%) FortiGate
5 19 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 17 (1.33%) Ansible
7 16 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
7 16 (1.25%) Terraform
8 14 (1.09%) Autotask
9 12 (0.94%) SmoothWall
10 10 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
11 8 (0.63%) SCVMM
12 7 (0.55%) Nagios
12 7 (0.55%) Puppet
13 6 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.47%) Nmap
13 6 (0.47%) VxRail
14 5 (0.39%) OfficeScan
14 5 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 594 (46.44%) Microsoft
2 378 (29.55%) VMware
3 377 (29.48%) Cisco
4 127 (9.93%) Juniper
5 84 (6.57%) Fortinet
6 80 (6.25%) HP
7 78 (6.10%) Aruba
8 73 (5.71%) Meraki
9 70 (5.47%) Citrix
10 67 (5.24%) Veeam
11 66 (5.16%) Palo Alto
12 48 (3.75%) Dell
13 41 (3.21%) Apple
14 40 (3.13%) Google
15 38 (2.97%) Ruckus Wireless
16 37 (2.89%) Nokia
17 36 (2.81%) CheckPoint
18 30 (2.35%) Sophos
19 26 (2.03%) SolarWinds
20 19 (1.49%) McAfee