Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 191 291
Rank change year-on-year +24 +100 -56
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,450 1,563 2,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.94% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.02% 12.05% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 1,188 1,990
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% +7.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -1.18% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +21 1,323 £47,500 +5.56% 202
UK excluding London +1 1,031 £42,500 +1.19% 202
Work from Home +4 472 £52,500 +12.90% 84
London +1 362 £55,000 -0.27% 33
North of England +27 307 £42,500 -9.57% 48
South East -12 209 £45,000 +11.11% 55
North West +15 176 £45,000 -5.26% 27
Midlands -16 169 £42,500 +10.39% 28
South West +9 145 £38,000 -5.00% 17
East of England +29 138 £45,000 +5.88% 30
Yorkshire +66 122 £42,500 -15.00% 17
West Midlands +4 119 £41,750 +4.38% 20
Scotland -66 47 £40,250 -1.23% 8
East Midlands -39 41 £45,000 +22.27% 7
Wales +13 27 £40,500 -4.71% 8
North East -18 26 £39,000 -8.24% 6
Northern Ireland +10 6 £37,500 -6.25% 15
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - -

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 178 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 159 (10.97%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.45%) SharePoint 2010
3 21 (1.45%) SharePoint 2013
4 9 (0.62%) IIS
4 9 (0.62%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.55%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
6 7 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.34%) Confluence
7 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.069%) Moodle
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 136 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.21%) Revit
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.14%) Shopify
4 1 (0.069%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.069%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.069%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.069%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 556 (38.34%) Azure
2 528 (36.41%) Microsoft 365
3 175 (12.07%) AWS
4 161 (11.10%) Entra ID
5 58 (4.00%) GCP
5 58 (4.00%) SaaS
6 49 (3.38%) IaaS
7 43 (2.97%) PaaS
8 42 (2.90%) OneDrive
9 32 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 15 (1.03%) Power Platform
13 13 (0.90%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (0.83%) WhatsApp
15 11 (0.76%) Google Workspace
16 10 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
16 10 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1,211 (83.52%) WAN
2 609 (42.00%) Firewall
3 393 (27.10%) VPN
4 313 (21.59%) Wi-Fi
4 313 (21.59%) Wireless
5 279 (19.24%) DNS
6 261 (18.00%) TCP/IP
7 229 (15.79%) DHCP
8 190 (13.10%) SD-WAN
9 188 (12.97%) Network Security
9 188 (12.97%) WLAN
10 151 (10.41%) VLAN
11 147 (10.14%) MPLS
12 108 (7.45%) Internet
13 107 (7.38%) BGP
14 97 (6.69%) OSPF
15 94 (6.48%) SAN
16 86 (5.93%) VoIP
17 63 (4.34%) IPsec
18 46 (3.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.59%) QlikView
3 22 (1.52%) MySQL
4 13 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.83%) Power BI
6 11 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.62%) DB2
8 7 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 5 (0.34%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.34%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.21%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.21%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.069%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.069%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.069%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (1.10%) JIRA
2 14 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.48%) Git
4 3 (0.21%) Axure RP
General
1 469 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 142 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
3 140 (9.66%) Finance
4 85 (5.86%) Law
5 83 (5.72%) Telecoms
6 76 (5.24%) Retail
7 46 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 40 (2.76%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.34%) Legal
12 30 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.10%) Banking
14 16 (1.10%) Marketing
15 15 (1.03%) Games
16 12 (0.83%) Local Government
17 11 (0.76%) Back Office
18 10 (0.69%) Advertising
18 10 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 281 (19.38%) Network Engineer
2 206 (14.21%) Analyst
3 194 (13.38%) Senior
4 172 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 129 (8.90%) IT Support
6 125 (8.62%) Support Engineer
7 92 (6.34%) IT Engineer
8 77 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
9 75 (5.17%) IT Analyst
10 72 (4.97%) Architect
11 68 (4.69%) Lead
12 67 (4.62%) Support Analyst
13 64 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
14 61 (4.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 60 (4.14%) Service Analyst
16 55 (3.79%) IT Manager
17 53 (3.66%) Consultant
17 53 (3.66%) Technical Support
18 51 (3.52%) Service Desk Analyst
19 50 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.86%) LDAP
2 24 (1.66%) 802.1X
3 16 (1.10%) HTML
4 10 (0.69%) SAML
4 10 (0.69%) XMPP
5 8 (0.55%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (0.48%) Web Services
6 7 (0.48%) XML
7 6 (0.41%) EDI
8 5 (0.34%) YAML
9 4 (0.28%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.14%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.14%) Middleware
10 2 (0.14%) ServiceStack
11 1 (0.069%) .NET
11 1 (0.069%) LAMP
11 1 (0.069%) Node.js
11 1 (0.069%) React
11 1 (0.069%) RESTful
11 1 (0.069%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 225 (15.52%) Data Centre
2 122 (8.41%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 50 (3.45%) PKI
4 46 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 44 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.93%) Cyberattack
8 23 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
9 22 (1.52%) CCTV
10 21 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.31%) Client/Server
11 19 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 17 (1.17%) Clustering
13 14 (0.97%) NHS
14 13 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
15 12 (0.83%) EPoS
15 12 (0.83%) PMI
16 11 (0.76%) Cloud Native
16 11 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 681 (46.97%) Windows
2 332 (22.90%) Windows Server
3 176 (12.14%) Windows 10
4 165 (11.38%) Linux
5 84 (5.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 70 (4.83%) Android
7 69 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 50 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 47 (3.24%) Apple iOS
9 47 (3.24%) Mac OS
10 41 (2.83%) VMS
11 36 (2.48%) Ubuntu
12 31 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (1.86%) CentOS
14 24 (1.66%) Windows 7
15 22 (1.52%) Unix
16 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
17 14 (0.97%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.41%) VyOS
18 6 (0.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
2 266 (18.34%) ITIL
3 229 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 206 (14.21%) Customer Service
5 156 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
6 113 (7.79%) Roadmaps
7 101 (6.97%) Project Management
8 99 (6.83%) Project Delivery
9 98 (6.76%) Agile
10 91 (6.28%) Service Delivery
11 90 (6.21%) Change Management
12 83 (5.72%) Mentoring
13 80 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 68 (4.69%) Migration
15 65 (4.48%) Presales
15 65 (4.48%) Service Management
16 64 (4.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 63 (4.34%) Computer Science
17 63 (4.34%) Information Security
18 62 (4.28%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 127 (8.76%) PowerShell
2 87 (6.00%) SQL
3 58 (4.00%) Python
4 36 (2.48%) Bash
5 17 (1.17%) Perl
6 16 (1.10%) Java
7 11 (0.76%) PHP
8 7 (0.48%) C#
9 4 (0.28%) Bicep
10 2 (0.14%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.14%) Korn
10 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.069%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.069%) VBA
Qualifications
1 225 (15.52%) Degree
2 215 (14.83%) Cisco Certification
3 147 (10.14%) Security Cleared
4 135 (9.31%) CCNA
5 109 (7.52%) CCNP
6 89 (6.14%) SC Cleared
7 67 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 50 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 49 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (3.10%) CCIE
11 39 (2.69%) DBS Check
12 37 (2.55%) MCSE
13 34 (2.34%) CISSP
14 33 (2.28%) HND
15 30 (2.07%) Azure Certification
16 26 (1.79%) HNC
17 25 (1.72%) PMI Certification
18 23 (1.59%) JNCIA
19 20 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 19 (1.31%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.17%) SLA
2 45 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 34 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.79%) GDPR
5 16 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 14 (0.97%) QA
7 13 (0.90%) NIST
8 11 (0.76%) IASME
9 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 6 (0.41%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.34%) COBIT
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.21%) PMO
14 1 (0.069%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.069%) ITGC
14 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 591 (40.76%) Active Directory
2 281 (19.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 182 (12.55%) Hyper-V
4 64 (4.41%) vSphere
5 59 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.00%) XenApp
7 26 (1.79%) XenDesktop
8 21 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (1.17%) Firmware
10 12 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.76%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.55%) Docker
13 7 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.28%) KVM
16 4 (0.28%) VMware Server
17 3 (0.21%) QEMU
17 3 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 165 (11.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (5.72%) SCCM
3 61 (4.21%) Ansible
4 55 (3.79%) Terraform
5 46 (3.17%) WSUS
6 31 (2.14%) FortiGate
7 20 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 15 (1.03%) Puppet
9 13 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.83%) Autotask
11 10 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (0.62%) VxRail
13 8 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.55%) Nessus
14 7 (0.48%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
15 6 (0.41%) Kubernetes
15 6 (0.41%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 657 (45.31%) Microsoft
2 454 (31.31%) Cisco
3 409 (28.21%) VMware
4 127 (8.76%) Fortinet
5 121 (8.34%) Meraki
6 116 (8.00%) Juniper
7 99 (6.83%) Palo Alto
8 94 (6.48%) HP
9 81 (5.59%) Aruba
10 78 (5.38%) Citrix
11 75 (5.17%) Veeam
12 66 (4.55%) Dell
13 59 (4.07%) Google
14 57 (3.93%) SolarWinds
15 55 (3.79%) CheckPoint
16 47 (3.24%) Ruckus Wireless
17 39 (2.69%) Apple
18 28 (1.93%) Red Hat
18 28 (1.93%) ServiceNow
19 27 (1.86%) Symantec