LAN Contracts in London

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 215 188 329
Rank change year-on-year -27 +141 -60
Contract jobs citing LAN 182 369 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.45% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.90% 14.25% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 202 198
10th Percentile £187 £213 £210
25th Percentile £350 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £583
90th Percentile £745 £773 £675
England median daily rate £473 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - - £39.55
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £41.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £41.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% -8.82% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £48.58
90th Percentile - - £59.93
England median hourly rate £23.15 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -64.38% +188.89% -30.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in London

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for LAN in London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in London

LAN
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the London region 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
Central London +11 29 £500 -9.09% 10
West London +16 4 £600 +150.00% 2
East London -4 3 £125 -50.50% 5
South London -4 2 £450 -14.29%
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.20%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.49%) MS Visio
3 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.27%) Azure
2 40 (21.98%) AWS
3 23 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.59%) GCP
5 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.85%) IaaS
5 7 (3.85%) SaaS
6 6 (3.30%) Mimecast
6 6 (3.30%) WhatsApp
7 5 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.75%) OCI
8 4 (2.20%) PaaS
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.65%) Route 53
9 3 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 142 (78.02%) WAN
2 101 (55.49%) Firewall
3 59 (32.42%) Wireless
4 57 (31.32%) VPN
5 55 (30.22%) BGP
5 55 (30.22%) OSPF
6 39 (21.43%) DNS
7 35 (19.23%) DHCP
8 31 (17.03%) WLAN
9 30 (16.48%) SD-WAN
10 29 (15.93%) MPLS
10 29 (15.93%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (14.29%) IPsec
12 25 (13.74%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (12.09%) VLAN
14 20 (10.99%) EIGRP
14 20 (10.99%) Network Security
15 19 (10.44%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (10.44%) TCP/IP
16 14 (7.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) MySQL
2 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) Gradle
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.03%) Finance
3 18 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.04%) Mandarin Language
6 7 (3.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.10%) Aviation
10 2 (1.10%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Legal
10 2 (1.10%) Military
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (35.16%) Network Engineer
2 20 (10.99%) Senior
3 19 (10.44%) Architect
4 14 (7.69%) IT Support
4 14 (7.69%) Network Specialist
4 14 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 13 (7.14%) IT Engineer
6 11 (6.04%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (6.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (6.04%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.95%) Network Architect
8 8 (4.40%) Desktop Support
9 7 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.30%) Consultant
10 6 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) IT Technician
10 6 (3.30%) Support Technician
10 6 (3.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.85%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.20%) LDAP
2 4 (2.20%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.65%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.10%) Jinja
4 2 (1.10%) JSON
4 2 (1.10%) RESTful
4 2 (1.10%) XML
4 2 (1.10%) YANG
5 1 (0.55%) EDI
5 1 (0.55%) LAMP
5 1 (0.55%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.55%) libvirt
5 1 (0.55%) Middleware
5 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.74%) Data Centre
2 21 (11.54%) PKI
3 20 (10.99%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.20%) CMDB
7 4 (2.20%) iPhone
8 3 (1.65%) CCTV
8 3 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.65%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.65%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.10%) Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.98%) Windows
2 21 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.79%) Mac OS
4 11 (6.04%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.49%) Linux
6 6 (3.30%) Unix
7 5 (2.75%) Android
8 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.65%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.55%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.03%) ITIL
2 29 (15.93%) Change Management
3 27 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (12.09%) Migration
5 19 (10.44%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (8.79%) Customer Service
6 16 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (8.24%) Agile
7 15 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (6.59%) Asset Management
8 12 (6.59%) Problem Management
8 12 (6.59%) Server Management
9 11 (6.04%) Capacity Management
9 11 (6.04%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (5.49%) Network Architecture
10 10 (5.49%) Network Monitoring
10 10 (5.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (5.49%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.89%) Python
2 13 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.20%) Bash
3 4 (2.20%) SQL
4 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.55%) Java
5 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (23.63%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (18.13%) CCNP
3 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 25 (13.74%) Degree
5 24 (13.19%) CCNA
6 13 (7.14%) SC Cleared
7 12 (6.59%) CCIE
8 9 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.95%) DV Cleared
9 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.30%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.10%) PMP
13 2 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.55%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.55%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.09%) SLA
2 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 30 (16.48%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.04%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (5.49%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.30%) Firmware
6 4 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.65%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.65%) Docker
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.10%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.55%) Ceph
9 1 (0.55%) iptables
9 1 (0.55%) KVM
9 1 (0.55%) NFS
9 1 (0.55%) Samba
9 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) Terraform
2 10 (5.49%) FortiGate
3 9 (4.95%) SCCM
4 8 (4.40%) Ansible
5 7 (3.85%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.20%) Kubernetes
7 4 (2.20%) SCOM
7 4 (2.20%) VxRail
8 3 (1.65%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.65%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.10%) Nessus
9 2 (1.10%) Nmap
9 2 (1.10%) OpenNMS
9 2 (1.10%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.55%) SELinux
Vendors
1 99 (54.40%) Cisco
2 50 (27.47%) Microsoft
3 44 (24.18%) Palo Alto
4 33 (18.13%) F5
5 30 (16.48%) Juniper
6 23 (12.64%) Fortinet
7 22 (12.09%) CheckPoint
8 21 (11.54%) VMware
9 15 (8.24%) Infoblox
9 15 (8.24%) SolarWinds
10 13 (7.14%) ServiceNow
11 12 (6.59%) Aruba
12 9 (4.95%) Dell
13 8 (4.40%) Google
13 8 (4.40%) HP
14 7 (3.85%) Meraki
14 7 (3.85%) TOWER Software
15 6 (3.30%) Commvault
15 6 (3.30%) Extreme Networks
16 5 (2.75%) Citrix