LAN Jobs in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 109 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing LAN 60 27 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.12% 1.43% 2.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.92% 9.75% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49 23 65
10th Percentile £28,175 £38,000 £35,685
25th Percentile £32,000 £52,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,000 - £68,250
West Midlands median annual salary £40,313 £40,000 £43,126
% change year-on-year +0.78% -7.25% +1.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 377 277 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.31% 14.69% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 306 198 335
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,988 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -2.17%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in Birmingham.

Salary trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Stack
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 56 (93.33%) WAN
2 35 (58.33%) Firewall
3 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
3 14 (23.33%) WLAN
4 13 (21.67%) MPLS
5 12 (20.00%) Network Security
6 11 (18.33%) SD-WAN
7 10 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (16.67%) VPN
7 10 (16.67%) Wireless
8 8 (13.33%) VLAN
9 7 (11.67%) BGP
9 7 (11.67%) OSPF
9 7 (11.67%) SAN
9 7 (11.67%) VoIP
10 6 (10.00%) DNS
11 5 (8.33%) DHCP
12 2 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (3.33%) IPsec
12 2 (3.33%) WAAS
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (3.33%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Network Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Administrator
2 10 (16.67%) Senior
2 10 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) IT Administrator
3 9 (15.00%) IT Systems Administrator
4 8 (13.33%) Network Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) IT Technician
6 5 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) ICT Support
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Wiki
2 6 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.33%) IoT
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) CCTV
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.67%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) SUSE
4 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (18.33%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (18.33%) Patch Management
3 10 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (8.33%) ITIL
4 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (6.67%) CRM
5 4 (6.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (6.67%) Housing Management
5 4 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (6.67%) People Management
5 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Perl
1 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (20.00%) CCNP
3 10 (16.67%) CCNA
4 8 (13.33%) Degree
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (6.67%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.33%) CCDA
6 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (41.67%) Cisco
2 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (28.33%) Juniper
4 11 (18.33%) Aruba
5 9 (15.00%) VMware
6 7 (11.67%) Citrix
6 7 (11.67%) Nokia
6 7 (11.67%) Veeam
7 6 (10.00%) Ericsson
8 5 (8.33%) CheckPoint
8 5 (8.33%) HP
8 5 (8.33%) Meraki
8 5 (8.33%) Sophos
9 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
10 2 (3.33%) Avaya
10 2 (3.33%) F5
10 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
10 2 (3.33%) Snow
11 1 (1.67%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.67%) Zscaler