LAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 161 193
Rank change year-on-year -53 +32 -11
Permanent jobs citing LAN 544 1,283 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.80% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.19% 13.15% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 445 1,092 824
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +1.81% -2.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,425 £61,425
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,643 9,757 10,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.73% 13.67% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,249 7,082 4,692
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £43,742 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% -2.80% -4.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,016
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

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 2025.

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 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
Midlands -13 143 £45,000 +7.14% 63
North of England -97 143 £42,500 +6.25% 78
South East +1 135 £40,000 -11.11% 60
West Midlands -2 120 £38,750 -3.88% 35
North West -100 77 £47,500 +11.76% 37
Yorkshire -16 61 £40,000 -5.88% 26
East of England -23 57 £43,250 -1.14% 47
South West -10 46 £47,500 +11.76% 40
East Midlands +6 23 £60,000 +33.33% 27
Scotland +88 14 £50,000 +42.86% 14
North East +9 5 £62,250 +63.82% 16
Wales +10 4 £49,750 +22.84% 8
Northern Ireland +37 2 £50,000 +33.33% 6
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 76 (13.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (7.72%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.29%) IBM Domino
4 4 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 64 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.68%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.10%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 228 (41.91%) Azure
2 196 (36.03%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 40 (7.35%) AWS
5 22 (4.04%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.47%) GCP
7 7 (1.29%) IaaS
8 6 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.74%) GitHub
9 4 (0.74%) SaaS
10 3 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.55%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.37%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.37%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (0.37%) PaaS
12 1 (0.18%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 477 (87.68%) WAN
2 241 (44.30%) Firewall
3 157 (28.86%) VPN
4 94 (17.28%) Wireless
5 84 (15.44%) DNS
6 82 (15.07%) DHCP
7 81 (14.89%) TCP/IP
8 79 (14.52%) Wi-Fi
9 71 (13.05%) VoIP
10 60 (11.03%) VLAN
11 57 (10.48%) Network Security
12 56 (10.29%) Internet
13 52 (9.56%) BGP
14 46 (8.46%) SD-WAN
15 42 (7.72%) MPLS
16 33 (6.07%) IPsec
17 31 (5.70%) OSPF
18 28 (5.15%) Cisco IOS
19 27 (4.96%) Cisco Nexus
20 25 (4.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.18%) DB2
5 1 (0.18%) MS Access
5 1 (0.18%) Power BI
5 1 (0.18%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.29%) JIRA
3 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.37%) Spinnaker
General
1 238 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 47 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (7.90%) Retail
4 37 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.25%) Finance
6 29 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.47%) Automotive
13 7 (1.29%) Legal
14 6 (1.10%) Law
15 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.55%) Aviation
16 3 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.37%) Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (23.16%) IT Support
2 93 (17.10%) Support Engineer
3 70 (12.87%) Network Engineer
4 58 (10.66%) Architect
5 54 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (8.09%) IT Engineer
7 40 (7.35%) Infrastructure Support
7 40 (7.35%) Senior
8 39 (7.17%) 2nd Line Support
9 38 (6.99%) Analyst
10 36 (6.62%) 3rd Line Support
10 36 (6.62%) Support Specialist
11 35 (6.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (6.43%) IT Support Specialist
12 32 (5.88%) Lead
13 29 (5.33%) Network Architect
14 28 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (4.78%) Junior
16 25 (4.60%) Technical Support
17 24 (4.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.02%) LDAP
2 5 (0.92%) 802.1X
2 5 (0.92%) Middleware
3 2 (0.37%) HTML
3 2 (0.37%) SOAP
3 2 (0.37%) XML
3 2 (0.37%) XSLT
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) JSON
4 1 (0.18%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.29%) Driving Licence
2 39 (7.17%) Data Centre
3 36 (6.62%) CCTV
4 25 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.23%) Client/Server
6 19 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.02%) Social Media
8 10 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.10%) PMI
11 6 (1.10%) Replication
11 6 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (0.92%) Clustering
12 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.74%) PKI
13 4 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 287 (52.76%) Windows
2 123 (22.61%) Windows Server
3 61 (11.21%) Windows 10
4 35 (6.43%) Linux
5 33 (6.07%) Mac OS
6 32 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (3.13%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.47%) Android
10 7 (1.29%) Unix
11 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.92%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.37%) Solaris
14 2 (0.37%) VMS
15 1 (0.18%) CentOS
15 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (16.18%) Customer Service
3 79 (14.52%) ITIL
4 65 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
5 60 (11.03%) Migration
6 59 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 49 (9.01%) Presales
8 42 (7.72%) Network Design
9 38 (6.99%) Business Continuity
10 34 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 30 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (4.96%) Network Management
13 26 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (4.23%) Change Management
14 23 (4.23%) Service Delivery
15 22 (4.04%) Data Security
15 22 (4.04%) Infrastructure Management
16 21 (3.86%) Roadmaps
17 20 (3.68%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.90%) SQL
2 42 (7.72%) PowerShell
3 29 (5.33%) Python
4 10 (1.84%) Bash
5 9 (1.65%) Perl
6 6 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (0.37%) C
7 2 (0.37%) Java
7 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.37%) Jython
8 1 (0.18%) R
8 1 (0.18%) RPG
8 1 (0.18%) RPG IV
8 1 (0.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 124 (22.79%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (17.83%) Degree
3 88 (16.18%) CCNA
4 71 (13.05%) Security Cleared
5 68 (12.50%) CCNP
6 47 (8.64%) SC Cleared
7 39 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (6.25%) JNCIA
9 29 (5.33%) CCIE
10 26 (4.78%) JNCIS
11 20 (3.68%) MCSA
12 19 (3.49%) DV Cleared
12 19 (3.49%) Master's Degree
12 19 (3.49%) MBA
13 18 (3.31%) MCP
14 17 (3.13%) A+ Certification
15 13 (2.39%) DBS Check
16 9 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (1.65%) MCSE
17 7 (1.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.70%) SLA
2 13 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (0.92%) GDPR
6 4 (0.74%) ISO 14001
6 4 (0.74%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.37%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 196 (36.03%) Active Directory
2 100 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (9.01%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.76%) XenApp
5 14 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.84%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.10%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.74%) vSphere
11 3 (0.55%) Firmware
11 3 (0.55%) KVM
12 2 (0.37%) NFS
12 2 (0.37%) SRDF
12 2 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.37%) Xen
13 1 (0.18%) Docker
13 1 (0.18%) RHEV
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.23%) Ansible
3 18 (3.31%) Terraform
4 12 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
4 12 (2.21%) SCCM
5 9 (1.65%) QRadar
6 8 (1.47%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.29%) SmoothWall
8 5 (0.92%) Puppet
8 5 (0.92%) WSUS
9 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.74%) VxRail
10 3 (0.55%) Autotask
10 3 (0.55%) Avamar
10 3 (0.55%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.55%) Iperf
10 3 (0.55%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 277 (50.92%) Microsoft
2 214 (39.34%) Cisco
3 127 (23.35%) VMware
4 81 (14.89%) Fortinet
5 74 (13.60%) Juniper
6 66 (12.13%) Palo Alto
7 63 (11.58%) Aruba
8 44 (8.09%) Meraki
9 33 (6.07%) Citrix
10 30 (5.51%) CheckPoint
11 21 (3.86%) Apple
12 19 (3.49%) Unisys
13 18 (3.31%) Dell
14 17 (3.13%) SonicWALL
14 17 (3.13%) Veeam
15 16 (2.94%) HP
16 10 (1.84%) Splunk
16 10 (1.84%) WatchGuard
17 9 (1.65%) F5
18 8 (1.47%) NVIDIA