LAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 228 139 253
Rank change year-on-year -89 +114 +6
Contract jobs citing LAN 120 437 461
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 1.81% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.82% 15.62% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 283 323
10th Percentile £293 £325 £263
25th Percentile £394 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +3.68% +8.76%
75th Percentile £628 £619 £573
90th Percentile £748 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £457 £475 £434
% change year-on-year -3.89% +9.51% +8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 22 23
10th Percentile - £47.50 £22.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £51.25 £28.41
Median hourly rate £19.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.67% +57.89% -27.48%
75th Percentile £19.50 £77.81 £65.54
90th Percentile - £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £27.21
% change year-on-year -65.38% +138.93% +20.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,798 4,427
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.49% 11.61% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,870 3,025
10th Percentile £300 £343 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.80 £19.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +16.13% +22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

LAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN.

LAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

LAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN.

LAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.33%) Azure
2 18 (15.00%) AWS
3 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.00%) GCP
5 4 (3.33%) IaaS
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.50%) GitHub
6 3 (2.50%) PaaS
6 3 (2.50%) Route 53
6 3 (2.50%) Serverless
6 3 (2.50%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 92 (76.67%) WAN
2 47 (39.17%) Firewall
3 40 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 33 (27.50%) Wireless
5 30 (25.00%) WLAN
6 26 (21.67%) VPN
6 26 (21.67%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (18.33%) BGP
8 20 (16.67%) OSPF
9 19 (15.83%) Network Security
10 12 (10.00%) MPLS
11 11 (9.17%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (9.17%) DHCP
11 11 (9.17%) VoIP
12 10 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (7.50%) DNS
13 9 (7.50%) Internet
13 9 (7.50%) NX-OS
14 8 (6.67%) SAN
14 8 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.67%) JIRA
1 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.83%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) Gradle
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Banking
6 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Aviation
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (28.33%) Architect
2 33 (27.50%) Network Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 15 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Senior
6 9 (7.50%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Azure Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Consultant
8 6 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.00%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Lead
10 4 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) IT Support
10 4 (3.33%) Network Specialist
10 4 (3.33%) Network Technical Architect
10 4 (3.33%) Programme Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) Middleware
2 5 (4.17%) Web Services
3 2 (1.67%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.67%) LDAP
4 1 (0.83%) .NET
4 1 (0.83%) J2EE
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) OAuth
4 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.83%) SAML
4 1 (0.83%) XML
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.17%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.17%) PKI
4 3 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) CCTV
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) IoT
5 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.83%) IVR
6 1 (0.83%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
6 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.17%) Windows
2 16 (13.33%) Linux
3 13 (10.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (12.50%) Agile
1 15 (12.50%) Change Management
2 14 (11.67%) IT Strategy
3 13 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (10.00%) Analytics
5 11 (9.17%) Migration
5 11 (9.17%) Technology Strategy
6 10 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 10 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 10 (8.33%) Waterfall
7 8 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (6.67%) Data Science
7 8 (6.67%) Data Strategy
7 8 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (6.67%) Machine Learning
7 8 (6.67%) Network Architecture
7 8 (6.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 8 (6.67%) PRINCE2
7 8 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.67%) Python
2 5 (4.17%) Bash
3 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.50%) SQL
4 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.83%) Java
5 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (20.83%) CCNP
3 15 (12.50%) CCIE
4 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.67%) CCNA
6 7 (5.83%) Degree
6 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.00%) JNCIA
8 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.50%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (2.50%) CCSA
9 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.50%) PMP
10 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.83%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.33%) QA
1 10 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) COBIT
5 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.50%) Docker
4 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.67%) vSphere
5 2 (1.67%) XenApp
6 1 (0.83%) Firmware
6 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.83%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Ansible
3 4 (3.33%) Terraform
4 3 (2.50%) Nessus
4 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (1.67%) VxRail
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (54.17%) Cisco
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 22 (18.33%) Palo Alto
4 18 (15.00%) VMware
5 16 (13.33%) F5
6 13 (10.83%) Juniper
7 12 (10.00%) Fortinet
8 10 (8.33%) Aruba
9 9 (7.50%) CheckPoint
10 8 (6.67%) Databricks
11 6 (5.00%) Citrix
12 5 (4.17%) Blue Coat
12 5 (4.17%) Splunk
13 4 (3.33%) HP
13 4 (3.33%) Infoblox
13 4 (3.33%) Zscaler
14 3 (2.50%) Dell
14 3 (2.50%) Genesys
14 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
14 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds