LAN Job Trends in Yorkshire

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring LAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 108 100
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +35
Permanent jobs citing LAN 64 53 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.84% 1.61% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.74% 9.80% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 54 43 39
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £30,500 £24,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £28,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -55.20% +38.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £45,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £54,749 £41,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +31.92% -12.63% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 545 541 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.16% 16.44% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 323 350 271
10th Percentile £25,750 - £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% +5.41%
75th Percentile £59,375 £48,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £48,445 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.73% -17.00% -2.91%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

LAN job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

LAN
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LAN

LAN
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for LAN in Yorkshire

LAN
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -12 38 £57,500 +43.93% 8
East Yorkshire -11 5 £29,500 +5.36%
South Yorkshire -45 5 £57,500 +139.58% 3
North Yorkshire 0 3 £33,500 -9.46% 1
LAN
England

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 16 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (67.19%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (54.69%) Azure
3 20 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 9 (14.06%) AWS
5 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.69%) IaaS
6 3 (4.69%) PaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.56%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.56%) Datadog
8 1 (1.56%) GCP
8 1 (1.56%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 63 (98.44%) WAN
2 26 (40.63%) DNS
2 26 (40.63%) Firewall
3 25 (39.06%) DHCP
4 18 (28.13%) VPN
5 16 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 11 (17.19%) Network Security
7 10 (15.63%) VLAN
7 10 (15.63%) Wireless
8 7 (10.94%) WLAN
9 6 (9.38%) SD-WAN
10 5 (7.81%) BGP
10 5 (7.81%) HTTP
10 5 (7.81%) OSPF
10 5 (7.81%) SAN
10 5 (7.81%) SSL
11 4 (6.25%) NAS
11 4 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (4.69%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (4.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Legal
3 5 (7.81%) Advertising
3 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) IT Support
2 15 (23.44%) IT Technician
3 13 (20.31%) IT Support Technician
3 13 (20.31%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) Support Technician
4 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (15.63%) Support Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) IT Manager
7 7 (10.94%) IT Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (9.38%) Architect
8 6 (9.38%) IT Operations Manager
8 6 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Operations Manager
9 5 (7.81%) Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Support Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Technical Support Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.56%) Driving Licence
2 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (73.44%) Windows
2 25 (39.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.69%) VMS
6 1 (1.56%) Linux
6 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (35.94%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (31.25%) ITSM
4 17 (26.56%) ITIL
5 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (23.44%) Service Delivery
6 14 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (20.31%) Service Management
8 9 (14.06%) Customer Service
9 8 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 8 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 8 (12.50%) Business Forecasting
9 8 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (12.50%) Case Management
9 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.50%) IT Strategy
9 8 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 7 (10.94%) AI
10 7 (10.94%) Communications Security
10 7 (10.94%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
1 9 (14.06%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) XAML
3 2 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 7 (10.94%) A+ Certification
2 7 (10.94%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.25%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.69%) CCNP
5 2 (3.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (15.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.06%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.81%) VxRail
3 4 (6.25%) WSUS
4 2 (3.13%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.00%) Cisco
3 15 (23.44%) VMware
4 5 (7.81%) Meraki
5 4 (6.25%) Commvault
5 4 (6.25%) Dell
5 4 (6.25%) HP
5 4 (6.25%) SAP
5 4 (6.25%) Tenable
5 4 (6.25%) Veeam
5 4 (6.25%) Zerto
6 3 (4.69%) Juniper
7 2 (3.13%) Aruba
7 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.13%) Zoho
8 1 (1.56%) Fortinet