LAN Contracts

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 140 210
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 +7
Contract jobs citing LAN 626 1,063 1,199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.90% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.54% 14.92% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 662 794
10th Percentile £200 £250 £190
25th Percentile £313 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £434
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +9.51% +8.44%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £550
90th Percentile £738 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 43 58
10th Percentile £12.86 £18.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £47.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £27.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +138.93% +20.91%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £55.75
90th Percentile - £80.85 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £65.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -65.65% +197.73% -2.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -18 568 £473 +5.00% 309
UK excluding London -16 399 £450 +5.88% 261
London -27 182 £475 -6.40% 69
South East -7 145 £400 -11.11% 52
Work from Home -89 120 £470 -4.57% 139
South West +17 86 £650 +30.00% 31
Midlands +3 67 £470 +15.34% 51
North of England -33 63 £350 -12.50% 85
West Midlands +7 57 £457 +15.94% 35
Yorkshire +28 34 £325 -18.75% 25
North West -49 27 £350 -17.65% 54
East of England -25 18 £525 +33.33% 28
Scotland +12 17 £450 -4.26% 9
East Midlands -1 9 £543 +42.76% 16
Wales -3 8 £241 -31.07% 10
North East +11 2 £400 +190.91% 6

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 29 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.64%) IIS
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
Applications
1 53 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (16.61%) Azure
2 68 (10.86%) AWS
2 68 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (6.39%) IaaS
4 37 (5.91%) PaaS
5 36 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (5.75%) SaaS
6 19 (3.04%) GCP
7 11 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.96%) Mimecast
8 6 (0.96%) OCI
8 6 (0.96%) WhatsApp
9 5 (0.80%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.48%) GitHub
10 3 (0.48%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.48%) iPaaS
10 3 (0.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 497 (79.39%) WAN
2 225 (35.94%) Firewall
3 147 (23.48%) VPN
4 140 (22.36%) Wi-Fi
5 128 (20.45%) Wireless
6 84 (13.42%) OSPF
7 83 (13.26%) DNS
8 82 (13.10%) DHCP
8 82 (13.10%) SD-WAN
9 80 (12.78%) BGP
10 79 (12.62%) WLAN
11 65 (10.38%) MPLS
12 52 (8.31%) Network Security
13 49 (7.83%) Cisco Nexus
14 42 (6.71%) VLAN
15 41 (6.55%) IPsec
16 38 (6.07%) SAN
16 38 (6.07%) TCP/IP
17 36 (5.75%) VoIP
18 35 (5.59%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.16%) MySQL
4 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Git
1 4 (0.64%) JIRA
2 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.16%) Gradle
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
General
1 174 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.22%) Public Sector
3 63 (10.06%) Finance
4 48 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.07%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.76%) Mandarin Language
10 10 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.60%) Legal
11 9 (1.44%) Banking
12 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.28%) Retail
13 7 (1.12%) Military
14 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 184 (29.39%) Network Engineer
2 164 (26.20%) Architect
3 120 (19.17%) Network Architect
4 54 (8.63%) Senior
5 41 (6.55%) Support Engineer
6 32 (5.11%) IT Engineer
7 29 (4.63%) IT Support
7 29 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
8 28 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (4.31%) Analyst
9 27 (4.31%) Technical Architect
10 22 (3.51%) Lead
11 19 (3.04%) Cisco Engineer
11 19 (3.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 19 (3.04%) Consultant
12 18 (2.88%) 2nd Line Support
12 18 (2.88%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.72%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (2.56%) Desktop Support
15 14 (2.24%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.08%) Middleware
1 13 (2.08%) Web Services
2 9 (1.44%) 802.1X
3 6 (0.96%) XML
4 5 (0.80%) JSON
4 5 (0.80%) LDAP
4 5 (0.80%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.48%) .NET
5 3 (0.48%) J2EE
5 3 (0.48%) Jinja
5 3 (0.48%) RESTful
5 3 (0.48%) Software Packaging
5 3 (0.48%) XMPP
5 3 (0.48%) YANG
6 2 (0.32%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.32%) XSLT
7 1 (0.16%) EDI
7 1 (0.16%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.16%) libvirt
7 1 (0.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 118 (18.85%) Data Centre
2 29 (4.63%) Driving Licence
2 29 (4.63%) PKI
3 25 (3.99%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (2.72%) Clustering
4 17 (2.72%) Public Cloud
4 17 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.08%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.08%) CMDB
6 13 (2.08%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.44%) NHS
8 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.12%) Replication
9 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.80%) CCTV
10 5 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.80%) iPhone
11 4 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 162 (25.88%) Windows
2 65 (10.38%) Windows Server
3 51 (8.15%) Linux
4 45 (7.19%) Windows 10
5 32 (5.11%) Mac OS
6 22 (3.51%) Unix
7 16 (2.56%) Windows 7
8 12 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.60%) Android
10 9 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (1.12%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.64%) CentOS
14 3 (0.48%) Debian
15 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.32%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.32%) zOS
16 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (12.62%) ITIL
3 60 (9.58%) Migration
4 57 (9.11%) Customer Service
5 49 (7.83%) Agile
5 49 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (7.67%) Project Delivery
7 47 (7.51%) Change Management
8 46 (7.35%) Business Strategy
9 43 (6.87%) Project Management
10 42 (6.71%) Network Management
11 37 (5.91%) Customer Requirements
11 37 (5.91%) Zero Trust
12 30 (4.79%) Network Architecture
13 28 (4.47%) Kalman Filter
13 28 (4.47%) Open Source
14 27 (4.31%) Decision-Making
14 27 (4.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (4.15%) Asset Management
15 26 (4.15%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.23%) PowerShell
2 25 (3.99%) Python
3 10 (1.60%) Bash
3 10 (1.60%) SQL
4 3 (0.48%) Java
5 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 207 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 119 (19.01%) Cisco Certification
3 89 (14.22%) Degree
4 76 (12.14%) DV Cleared
5 75 (11.98%) CCNP
6 70 (11.18%) CCNA
7 63 (10.06%) SC Cleared
8 29 (4.63%) CCIE
9 15 (2.40%) JNCIA
10 14 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.44%) CCIE Data Center
13 8 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.96%) JNCIS
16 5 (0.80%) CCSA
16 5 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.42%) SLA
2 18 (2.88%) QA
3 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.48%) NCSC
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 78 (12.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.79%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.35%) Firmware
4 21 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (2.56%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.28%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (1.28%) vSphere
8 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.64%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.48%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.48%) Docker
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.48%) XenApp
11 2 (0.32%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.16%) NFS
12 1 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 52 (8.31%) SCCM
2 20 (3.19%) FortiGate
3 16 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.40%) Terraform
5 14 (2.24%) Ansible
6 11 (1.76%) NetBackup
6 11 (1.76%) SolarWinds Orion
7 10 (1.60%) SCOM
8 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.44%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.28%) Nagios
9 8 (1.28%) VxRail
10 6 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.96%) Autotask
10 6 (0.96%) Kubernetes
11 5 (0.80%) OpenView
12 4 (0.64%) Nessus
13 3 (0.48%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 281 (44.89%) Cisco
2 133 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 101 (16.13%) Juniper
4 96 (15.34%) VMware
5 79 (12.62%) Palo Alto
6 50 (7.99%) F5
7 47 (7.51%) CheckPoint
8 41 (6.55%) Aruba
8 41 (6.55%) Fortinet
9 32 (5.11%) HP
10 30 (4.79%) Meraki
11 26 (4.15%) Citrix
12 25 (3.99%) SolarWinds
13 21 (3.35%) Infoblox
13 21 (3.35%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.24%) Brocade
14 14 (2.24%) Dell
15 13 (2.08%) Zscaler
16 12 (1.92%) Apple
16 12 (1.92%) Google