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 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 141 226
Rank change year-on-year -58 +85 +25
Permanent jobs citing LAN 820 1,881 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 2.15% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 15.88% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 610 1,540 1,427
10th Percentile £30,225 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,996 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,700 £42,500 £42,250
% change year-on-year +5.18% +0.59% -0.59%

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 8,333 11,848 15,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 13.55% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,944 9,230 8,844
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £27,900
25th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -63 774 £47,500 - 461
UK excluding London -42 577 £44,700 +5.18% 323
London -80 211 £55,000 - 171
Work from Home -100 208 £50,000 +2.04% 154
North of England -30 180 £42,500 +6.25% 76
Midlands -35 127 £50,000 +17.65% 63
South East -26 114 £40,000 -5.88% 82
West Midlands -46 102 £50,000 +19.05% 44
North West -48 99 £47,500 +11.76% 34
East of England -1 71 £55,000 +34.15% 51
Yorkshire +7 69 £37,500 -6.25% 36
South West -31 56 £45,000 -8.16% 32
East Midlands +1 25 £62,500 +33.69% 18
Scotland +58 23 £45,000 +30.43% 17
North East +12 12 £42,250 +12.67% 9
Wales +1 5 £52,500 +16.96% 6
Northern Ireland +19 1 £27,800 -15.76% 8

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
1 129 (15.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.37%) IBM Domino
3 3 (0.37%) IIS
3 3 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (0.37%) WordPress
4 2 (0.24%) Confluence
4 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 83 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 385 (46.95%) Azure
2 294 (35.85%) Microsoft 365
3 99 (12.07%) Entra ID
4 95 (11.59%) AWS
5 36 (4.39%) GCP
6 28 (3.41%) OneDrive
7 23 (2.80%) Mimecast
8 19 (2.32%) SaaS
9 15 (1.83%) IaaS
10 14 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (1.46%) Google Workspace
12 11 (1.34%) PaaS
13 8 (0.98%) GitHub
14 5 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.61%) Power Platform
15 4 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.49%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 713 (86.95%) WAN
2 403 (49.15%) Firewall
3 241 (29.39%) VPN
4 167 (20.37%) DNS
5 160 (19.51%) Wireless
6 153 (18.66%) TCP/IP
7 152 (18.54%) DHCP
8 126 (15.37%) Wi-Fi
9 119 (14.51%) SD-WAN
10 104 (12.68%) BGP
11 102 (12.44%) MPLS
12 100 (12.20%) Network Security
13 94 (11.46%) VLAN
14 89 (10.85%) VoIP
14 89 (10.85%) WLAN
15 79 (9.63%) OSPF
16 71 (8.66%) Internet
17 53 (6.46%) Cisco ISE
18 40 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
18 40 (4.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.24%) MySQL
4 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.24%) Power BI
5 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (0.85%) JIRA
3 6 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.49%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.24%) Git
6 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
General
1 283 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 59 (7.20%) Finance
3 56 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.59%) Retail
5 43 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (5.12%) Telecoms
7 40 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.93%) Law
10 22 (2.68%) Banking
10 22 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.83%) Legal
11 15 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.85%) Automotive
14 7 (0.85%) Local Government
15 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 136 (16.59%) Network Engineer
2 107 (13.05%) Architect
3 102 (12.44%) IT Support
4 96 (11.71%) Support Engineer
5 95 (11.59%) Senior
6 92 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 75 (9.15%) IT Engineer
8 73 (8.90%) Network Architect
9 72 (8.78%) Analyst
10 49 (5.98%) 2nd Line Support
11 43 (5.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 42 (5.12%) Lead
13 40 (4.88%) Junior
14 38 (4.63%) Consultant
15 36 (4.39%) 3rd Line Support
16 34 (4.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 33 (4.02%) Cisco Engineer
18 31 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (3.78%) Support Analyst
18 31 (3.78%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.80%) JSON
2 22 (2.68%) 802.1X
3 13 (1.59%) LDAP
4 4 (0.49%) HTML
4 4 (0.49%) SOAP
4 4 (0.49%) XML
4 4 (0.49%) XSLT
5 3 (0.37%) EDI
6 2 (0.24%) Middleware
6 2 (0.24%) XMPP
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Identity Foundation
7 1 (0.12%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.29%) Data Centre
2 42 (5.12%) CCTV
3 40 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 39 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 30 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
9 20 (2.44%) Virtual Team
10 17 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.59%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.22%) IoT
14 9 (1.10%) iPhone
15 8 (0.98%) Smartphone
16 7 (0.85%) Operational Technology
17 6 (0.73%) Clustering
18 5 (0.61%) Handset
19 4 (0.49%) Fat Client
19 4 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 383 (46.71%) Windows
2 202 (24.63%) Windows Server
3 105 (12.80%) Windows 10
4 68 (8.29%) Linux
5 60 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (6.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (4.39%) Mac OS
8 32 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 22 (2.68%) Apple iOS
10 18 (2.20%) Android
11 13 (1.59%) Unix
11 13 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (1.34%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.98%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.73%) VMS
16 4 (0.49%) CentOS
17 2 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
17 2 (0.24%) Solaris
18 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (14.51%) Customer Service
2 119 (14.51%) ITIL
3 109 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 84 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
5 71 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
6 66 (8.05%) Migration
7 62 (7.56%) Business Continuity
8 59 (7.20%) Presales
9 58 (7.07%) Network Monitoring
10 57 (6.95%) Network Design
11 53 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (6.34%) Change Management
13 46 (5.61%) Mentoring
14 43 (5.24%) Incident Management
14 43 (5.24%) Network Management
15 41 (5.00%) Service Delivery
16 39 (4.76%) Infrastructure Management
17 38 (4.63%) Project Delivery
17 38 (4.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 59 (7.20%) Python
3 45 (5.49%) SQL
4 15 (1.83%) Bash
5 10 (1.22%) Perl
6 7 (0.85%) Java
7 5 (0.61%) C++
8 4 (0.49%) C
8 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.49%) Jython
8 4 (0.49%) VBScript
9 1 (0.12%) VB
9 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 220 (26.83%) Cisco Certification
2 137 (16.71%) CCNA
3 127 (15.49%) CCNP
4 125 (15.24%) Security Cleared
5 124 (15.12%) Degree
6 91 (11.10%) SC Cleared
7 61 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 57 (6.95%) CCIE
9 39 (4.76%) JNCIA
10 34 (4.15%) DV Cleared
11 24 (2.93%) JNCIS
12 22 (2.68%) Azure Certification
13 20 (2.44%) MCSA
13 20 (2.44%) MCSE
14 18 (2.20%) MCP
15 17 (2.07%) Master's Degree
15 17 (2.07%) MBA
16 12 (1.46%) A+ Certification
16 12 (1.46%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.32%) SLA
2 20 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.34%) GDPR
5 11 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.61%) NIST
8 4 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.49%) ISO 14001
8 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.37%) IASME
9 3 (0.37%) QA
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 322 (39.27%) Active Directory
2 144 (17.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 38 (4.63%) VMware NSX
5 22 (2.68%) XenApp
6 19 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.22%) vSphere
9 9 (1.10%) Firmware
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.73%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.61%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.37%) KVM
14 2 (0.24%) NFS
14 2 (0.24%) SRDF
14 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 114 (13.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (7.80%) Ansible
3 57 (6.95%) Terraform
4 43 (5.24%) FortiGate
5 35 (4.27%) SCCM
6 20 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 17 (2.07%) WSUS
8 10 (1.22%) Puppet
8 10 (1.22%) QRadar
9 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (1.10%) SCOM
10 8 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.73%) VxRail
12 5 (0.61%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.49%) Avamar
13 4 (0.49%) Kubernetes
13 4 (0.49%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.37%) Iperf
14 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 385 (46.95%) Microsoft
2 364 (44.39%) Cisco
3 199 (24.27%) VMware
4 121 (14.76%) Juniper
5 96 (11.71%) Palo Alto
6 88 (10.73%) Fortinet
7 79 (9.63%) Meraki
8 69 (8.41%) Aruba
9 67 (8.17%) CheckPoint
10 47 (5.73%) F5
11 45 (5.49%) Citrix
12 43 (5.24%) Google
13 42 (5.12%) Dell
14 40 (4.88%) HP
15 38 (4.63%) SolarWinds
15 38 (4.63%) Veeam
16 36 (4.39%) Apple
17 26 (3.17%) ServiceNow
18 23 (2.80%) Blue Coat
19 19 (2.32%) Arista