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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 149 226
Rank change year-on-year -58 +77 +33
Permanent jobs citing LAN 776 1,895 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.93% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.19% 13.91% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 644 1,586 1,309
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,200 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year - +2.41% -2.35%

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 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 17 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 30 April 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
England -51 742 £45,000 - 302
UK excluding London -40 531 £42,500 - 255
London -51 210 £54,750 -0.45% 73
Work from Home -76 176 £50,000 - 143
North of England -60 150 £42,500 +6.25% 50
Midlands -23 133 £48,750 +16.07% 45
South East -3 122 £40,000 -5.88% 59
West Midlands -12 112 £45,000 +11.63% 27
North West -70 81 £47,500 +11.76% 24
Yorkshire +3 63 £40,000 -5.88% 20
East of England -8 57 £45,000 +5.88% 41
South West -10 50 £47,500 -3.06% 36
East Midlands +9 21 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Scotland +98 14 £50,000 +42.86% 20
North East +22 6 £42,250 +12.67% 7
Wales +7 4 £49,750 +22.84% 5
Northern Ireland +30 1 £50,000 +33.33% 5

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
1 130 (16.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.90%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (0.39%) WordPress
5 2 (0.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 102 (13.14%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.74%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.64%) Exchequer
2 5 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 365 (47.04%) Azure
2 267 (34.41%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (12.24%) Entra ID
4 90 (11.60%) AWS
5 38 (4.90%) GCP
6 33 (4.25%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.58%) Mimecast
8 16 (2.06%) SaaS
9 11 (1.42%) IaaS
10 8 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.03%) GitHub
11 7 (0.90%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.90%) PaaS
12 6 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.77%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.52%) Azure Stack
13 4 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 670 (86.34%) WAN
2 353 (45.49%) Firewall
3 236 (30.41%) VPN
4 143 (18.43%) DNS
4 143 (18.43%) TCP/IP
5 138 (17.78%) Wireless
6 128 (16.49%) DHCP
7 122 (15.72%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (13.79%) SD-WAN
9 102 (13.14%) BGP
10 93 (11.98%) VoIP
11 91 (11.73%) Network Security
12 88 (11.34%) MPLS
13 77 (9.92%) VLAN
14 76 (9.79%) OSPF
15 69 (8.89%) Internet
16 58 (7.47%) WLAN
17 49 (6.31%) IPsec
18 47 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
19 37 (4.77%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.52%) Power BI
4 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) DB2
6 1 (0.13%) MS Access
6 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.13%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (0.90%) JIRA
3 6 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.52%) Git
4 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
General
1 296 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 81 (10.44%) Finance
3 59 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (6.44%) Retail
6 36 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 35 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (4.38%) Banking
9 24 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.55%) Legal
14 10 (1.29%) Law
15 9 (1.16%) Automotive
16 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.64%) Local Government
17 5 (0.64%) Police
18 4 (0.52%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 129 (16.62%) IT Support
2 126 (16.24%) Network Engineer
3 112 (14.43%) Support Engineer
4 95 (12.24%) Architect
5 76 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 71 (9.15%) Senior
7 64 (8.25%) Network Architect
8 61 (7.86%) Analyst
9 54 (6.96%) IT Engineer
10 50 (6.44%) 2nd Line Support
11 44 (5.67%) Lead
12 39 (5.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 38 (4.90%) 3rd Line Support
13 38 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support
13 38 (4.90%) Junior
14 36 (4.64%) Support Specialist
15 35 (4.51%) IT Support Specialist
16 34 (4.38%) Consultant
17 33 (4.25%) Cisco Engineer
17 33 (4.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.35%) JSON
2 21 (2.71%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.29%) LDAP
4 5 (0.64%) Middleware
5 4 (0.52%) HTML
5 4 (0.52%) SOAP
5 4 (0.52%) XML
5 4 (0.52%) XSLT
6 3 (0.39%) EDI
7 2 (0.26%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.13%) .NET
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Identity Foundation
8 1 (0.13%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 100 (12.89%) Data Centre
2 51 (6.57%) Driving Licence
3 43 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 42 (5.41%) CCTV
5 33 (4.25%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.58%) Virtual Team
8 19 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.19%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
11 12 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.29%) iPhone
14 6 (0.77%) IoT
14 6 (0.77%) PMI
14 6 (0.77%) Replication
14 6 (0.77%) Social Media
15 5 (0.64%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.64%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 368 (47.42%) Windows
2 185 (23.84%) Windows Server
3 85 (10.95%) Windows 10
4 57 (7.35%) Linux
4 57 (7.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 48 (6.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (5.28%) Mac OS
7 32 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (3.09%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.32%) Android
10 11 (1.42%) Unix
11 10 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.90%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.64%) VMS
14 5 (0.64%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.26%) Solaris
16 1 (0.13%) CentOS
16 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (17.01%) ITIL
3 112 (14.43%) Customer Service
4 87 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 80 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
6 74 (9.54%) Migration
7 55 (7.09%) Business Continuity
7 55 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 54 (6.96%) Presales
9 51 (6.57%) Change Management
9 51 (6.57%) Network Monitoring
10 48 (6.19%) Network Design
11 44 (5.67%) Mentoring
11 44 (5.67%) Network Management
12 42 (5.41%) Incident Management
13 41 (5.28%) Root Cause Analysis
14 34 (4.38%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (4.25%) Service Delivery
16 32 (4.12%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 79 (10.18%) PowerShell
2 66 (8.51%) Python
3 46 (5.93%) SQL
4 15 (1.93%) Bash
5 11 (1.42%) Perl
6 6 (0.77%) C++
7 4 (0.52%) C
7 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.52%) Jython
8 3 (0.39%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) R
9 1 (0.13%) RPG
9 1 (0.13%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.13%) Scala
9 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 205 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
2 132 (17.01%) CCNA
3 130 (16.75%) Degree
4 113 (14.56%) CCNP
5 101 (13.02%) Security Cleared
6 74 (9.54%) SC Cleared
7 69 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 53 (6.83%) CCIE
9 38 (4.90%) JNCIA
10 30 (3.87%) Azure Certification
11 26 (3.35%) JNCIS
12 22 (2.84%) MCSA
13 21 (2.71%) DV Cleared
14 19 (2.45%) Master's Degree
14 19 (2.45%) MBA
15 17 (2.19%) MCP
15 17 (2.19%) MCSE
16 16 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (1.93%) A+ Certification
18 12 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.12%) SLA
2 22 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.90%) GDPR
5 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.77%) NIST
7 4 (0.52%) ISO 14001
7 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 285 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 132 (17.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (9.92%) Hyper-V
4 37 (4.77%) VMware NSX
5 23 (2.96%) XenApp
6 22 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (1.55%) Firmware
9 10 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.77%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.77%) vSphere
11 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.52%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.39%) KVM
14 2 (0.26%) NFS
14 2 (0.26%) SRDF
14 2 (0.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 117 (15.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (7.99%) Ansible
3 57 (7.35%) Terraform
4 40 (5.15%) FortiGate
5 33 (4.25%) SCCM
6 11 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (1.42%) SCOM
7 10 (1.29%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.16%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.90%) Puppet
9 7 (0.90%) WSUS
10 6 (0.77%) QRadar
11 5 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.64%) PaperCut
11 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.64%) SmoothWall
12 4 (0.52%) Backup Exec
12 4 (0.52%) Iperf
12 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 377 (48.58%) Microsoft
2 332 (42.78%) Cisco
3 189 (24.36%) VMware
4 103 (13.27%) Juniper
5 99 (12.76%) Fortinet
6 87 (11.21%) Palo Alto
7 76 (9.79%) CheckPoint
8 73 (9.41%) Meraki
9 59 (7.60%) Aruba
10 54 (6.96%) F5
11 52 (6.70%) Citrix
12 38 (4.90%) Google
13 35 (4.51%) SolarWinds
14 32 (4.12%) Veeam
15 30 (3.87%) Apple
15 30 (3.87%) ServiceNow
16 26 (3.35%) HP
17 25 (3.22%) Blue Coat
18 24 (3.09%) Dell
19 19 (2.45%) Unisys