LAN Contracts in England

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 153 214
Rank change year-on-year +15 +61 -6
Contract jobs citing LAN 620 862 991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.68% 1.72% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.63% 14.08% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 539 650
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £313 £319 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £538
90th Percentile £743 £678 £641
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 51
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.09 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £31.44 £17.57
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% +0.36%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £45.40 £80.25 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -65.38% +176.86% +20.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,910 6,122 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 12.24% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,964 4,025 5,192
10th Percentile £206 £240 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 435 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £16.93 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in England.

Daily rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -10 197 £475 -5.00% 107
South East +2 150 £375 -16.67% 62
South West +37 91 £650 +31.65% 31
Midlands +23 81 £475 +13.10% 52
North of England -3 75 £375 - 91
West Midlands +29 68 £475 +13.10% 36
Yorkshire +35 40 £400 -11.11% 27
North West -28 33 £350 -6.67% 59
East of England -13 20 £488 +20.00% 34
East Midlands +6 11 £555 +53.10% 16
North East +14 2 £400 +73.91% 5
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) IIS
3 3 (0.48%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 54 (8.71%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.16%) RMDS
2 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (15.16%) Azure
2 71 (11.45%) AWS
3 68 (10.97%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 37 (5.97%) IaaS
6 35 (5.65%) SaaS
7 34 (5.48%) PaaS
8 20 (3.23%) GCP
9 14 (2.26%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.97%) OCI
10 6 (0.97%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.81%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.81%) Mimecast
11 5 (0.81%) Route 53
12 4 (0.65%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (0.48%) Serverless
13 3 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 503 (81.13%) WAN
2 234 (37.74%) Firewall
3 165 (26.61%) VPN
4 140 (22.58%) Wi-Fi
5 132 (21.29%) Wireless
6 89 (14.35%) DNS
7 86 (13.87%) BGP
7 86 (13.87%) DHCP
7 86 (13.87%) OSPF
8 74 (11.94%) WLAN
9 68 (10.97%) SD-WAN
10 62 (10.00%) MPLS
11 49 (7.90%) Cisco ASA
11 49 (7.90%) Network Security
12 48 (7.74%) Cisco Nexus
13 47 (7.58%) IPsec
14 42 (6.77%) VLAN
15 41 (6.61%) VoIP
16 40 (6.45%) SAN
17 36 (5.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.32%) MySQL
4 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.65%) JIRA
2 3 (0.48%) Git
2 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.16%) Gradle
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
General
1 176 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.03%) Public Sector
3 58 (9.35%) Finance
4 50 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.94%) Mandarin Language
9 11 (1.77%) Legal
9 11 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.61%) Banking
10 10 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.13%) Back Office
13 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.97%) Marketing
13 6 (0.97%) Military
13 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 174 (28.06%) Network Engineer
2 163 (26.29%) Architect
3 122 (19.68%) Network Architect
4 49 (7.90%) Senior
5 43 (6.94%) Support Engineer
6 29 (4.68%) Senior Network Engineer
7 28 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (4.19%) IT Engineer
8 26 (4.19%) IT Support
9 25 (4.03%) Analyst
10 22 (3.55%) Lead
10 22 (3.55%) Network Specialist
10 22 (3.55%) Technical Architect
11 19 (3.06%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (3.06%) Cisco Engineer
11 19 (3.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 18 (2.90%) IT Support Engineer
13 17 (2.74%) Hardware Engineer
13 17 (2.74%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.58%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.94%) LDAP
2 9 (1.45%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.45%) Web Services
3 8 (1.29%) Middleware
4 5 (0.81%) XML
5 4 (0.65%) JSON
5 4 (0.65%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.48%) XMPP
7 2 (0.32%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.32%) Jinja
7 2 (0.32%) RESTful
7 2 (0.32%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.32%) XSLT
7 2 (0.32%) YANG
8 1 (0.16%) EDI
8 1 (0.16%) LAMP
8 1 (0.16%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.16%) libvirt
8 1 (0.16%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 123 (19.84%) Data Centre
2 35 (5.65%) PKI
3 34 (5.48%) Driving Licence
4 31 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
5 19 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.90%) Clustering
6 18 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.58%) NHS
8 13 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.77%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.77%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.61%) CMDB
11 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.97%) CCTV
12 6 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.81%) iPhone
13 5 (0.81%) Replication
13 5 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.65%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 172 (27.74%) Windows
2 70 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 53 (8.55%) Windows 10
4 51 (8.23%) Linux
5 28 (4.52%) Mac OS
6 21 (3.39%) Unix
7 19 (3.06%) Windows 7
8 12 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (1.61%) Ubuntu
11 9 (1.45%) Android
12 6 (0.97%) CentOS
12 6 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.48%) Debian
14 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.32%) zOS
16 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (13.23%) ITIL
3 65 (10.48%) Customer Service
3 65 (10.48%) Migration
4 52 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (7.90%) Agile
5 49 (7.90%) Change Management
6 45 (7.26%) Network Management
6 45 (7.26%) Project Management
7 40 (6.45%) Business Strategy
7 40 (6.45%) Project Delivery
8 37 (5.97%) Customer Requirements
9 34 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (5.48%) Zero Trust
10 32 (5.16%) Network Architecture
11 28 (4.52%) Network Design
11 28 (4.52%) Open Source
12 27 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (4.35%) Kalman Filter
13 26 (4.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.03%) Python
3 12 (1.94%) SQL
4 10 (1.61%) Bash
5 3 (0.48%) Java
6 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 225 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.71%) Cisco Certification
3 95 (15.32%) Degree
4 84 (13.55%) DV Cleared
5 73 (11.77%) SC Cleared
6 72 (11.61%) CCNP
7 69 (11.13%) CCNA
8 25 (4.03%) CCIE
9 18 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.42%) JNCIA
11 9 (1.45%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.97%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.81%) CCSA
14 5 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.03%) SLA
2 15 (2.42%) QA
3 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) HL7
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 99 (15.97%) Active Directory
2 73 (11.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.03%) Firmware
3 25 (4.03%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.06%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (2.58%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (1.29%) vSphere
8 4 (0.65%) Docker
8 4 (0.65%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.48%) XenApp
10 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.16%) Ceph
11 1 (0.16%) iptables
11 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (9.19%) SCCM
2 27 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 16 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.42%) Terraform
5 11 (1.77%) Ansible
6 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.61%) NetBackup
6 10 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.45%) SCOM
8 8 (1.29%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.29%) Nagios
8 8 (1.29%) VxRail
9 7 (1.13%) Kubernetes
9 7 (1.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 6 (0.97%) Autotask
11 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.81%) OpenView
12 4 (0.65%) Nessus
13 3 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 284 (45.81%) Cisco
2 134 (21.61%) Microsoft
3 107 (17.26%) Juniper
4 93 (15.00%) VMware
5 91 (14.68%) Palo Alto
6 48 (7.74%) CheckPoint
7 46 (7.42%) F5
8 43 (6.94%) Fortinet
9 37 (5.97%) HP
10 34 (5.48%) Aruba
11 33 (5.32%) Meraki
12 27 (4.35%) SolarWinds
13 22 (3.55%) Citrix
14 21 (3.39%) Infoblox
15 20 (3.23%) ServiceNow
16 13 (2.10%) Brocade
16 13 (2.10%) Google
16 13 (2.10%) SAP
17 12 (1.94%) Blue Coat
17 12 (1.94%) Dell