LAN Job Trends in Watford

Local Area Network (LAN)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +24
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.55% 2.53% 2.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 21.74% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £67,000 -
25th Percentile £42,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +16.67% +92.77%
75th Percentile £44,000 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - £69,750
Hertfordshire median annual salary £44,580 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.34% +6.67% +79.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 47 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 25.68% 11.62% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24 12 32
10th Percentile £31,250 - £31,525
25th Percentile £38,273 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,276 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.48% -4.17% +71.43%
75th Percentile £46,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £57,625 - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £46,160 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.52% +8.00% +17.65%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

LAN job vacancy trend in Watford

LAN
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft