LAN Jobs in the South East

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 193 175 196
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -34
Permanent jobs citing LAN 238 259 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.34% 1.88% 1.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.51% 10.53% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 210 188 304
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,938 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £56,938 £51,563 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,797 2,459 3,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.70% 17.88% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,887 1,448 1,867
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,550
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in the South East.

Salary trend for LAN in the South East

LAN
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the South East

LAN
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the South East 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -3 95 £45,000 +30.43% 6
Thames Valley -25 67 £42,000 -6.13% 22
Surrey +8 46 £50,000 +42.86% 2
Berkshire +16 39 £42,000 +21.74% 13
Oxfordshire +13 26 £41,250 -5.17% 6
Kent -39 14 £40,000 - 7
East Sussex +12 9 £55,000 +35.80%
West Sussex +23 6 £40,000 -4.76% 2
Buckinghamshire -53 3 £45,000 -14.29% 3
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (10.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.10%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 43 (18.07%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 93 (39.08%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (32.77%) Azure
3 36 (15.13%) AWS
4 25 (10.50%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (4.62%) SaaS
6 8 (3.36%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.68%) IaaS
7 4 (1.68%) PaaS
8 3 (1.26%) Dropbox
8 3 (1.26%) Google Drive
8 3 (1.26%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Akamai
10 1 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.42%) GCP
10 1 (0.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 176 (73.95%) WAN
2 95 (39.92%) Firewall
3 63 (26.47%) Wireless
4 58 (24.37%) Wi-Fi
5 54 (22.69%) VPN
6 45 (18.91%) TCP/IP
7 39 (16.39%) DNS
8 26 (10.92%) DHCP
9 22 (9.24%) Network Security
10 21 (8.82%) VLAN
11 20 (8.40%) WLAN
12 17 (7.14%) OSPF
13 16 (6.72%) SD-WAN
13 16 (6.72%) VoIP
14 12 (5.04%) Internet
15 11 (4.62%) SAN
16 10 (4.20%) NAS
16 10 (4.20%) SSL
17 9 (3.78%) BGP
18 8 (3.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.62%) MySQL
2 7 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.10%) InfluxDB
3 5 (2.10%) MariaDB
3 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.52%) JIRA
3 5 (2.10%) Git
4 4 (1.68%) MSBuild
4 4 (1.68%) TeamCity
General
1 103 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.98%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (6.72%) Finance
3 16 (6.72%) Telecoms
4 13 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.78%) Advertising
5 9 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.36%) Legal
7 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.68%) Games
9 3 (1.26%) Banking
9 3 (1.26%) Electronics
9 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (26.05%) Network Engineer
2 46 (19.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (12.61%) Support Engineer
4 25 (10.50%) Senior
5 22 (9.24%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.98%) Analyst
7 15 (6.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 15 (6.30%) Project Engineer
8 14 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
9 13 (5.46%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.04%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (5.04%) IT Support
10 12 (5.04%) Lead
11 11 (4.62%) IT Analyst
11 11 (4.62%) IT Technician
11 11 (4.62%) Service Manager
11 11 (4.62%) Team Leader
12 10 (4.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (4.20%) Technical Manager
12 10 (4.20%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.68%) .NET
2 2 (0.84%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.42%) EDI
3 1 (0.42%) LDAP
3 1 (0.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.55%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.98%) Driving Licence
3 18 (7.56%) PKI
4 12 (5.04%) CCTV
4 12 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.62%) Client/Server
5 11 (4.62%) NHS
6 9 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.10%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.10%) PMI
9 4 (1.68%) Replication
9 4 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.26%) Clustering
11 2 (0.84%) IoT
11 2 (0.84%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 118 (49.58%) Windows
2 52 (21.85%) Windows Server
3 36 (15.13%) Windows 10
4 23 (9.66%) Linux
5 20 (8.40%) Mac OS
6 15 (6.30%) Apple iOS
6 15 (6.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (5.46%) Android
7 13 (5.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.78%) Windows 7
9 8 (3.36%) Ubuntu
9 8 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (2.52%) Windows 8
11 5 (2.10%) CentOS
11 5 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.68%) Mac OS X
12 4 (1.68%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (22.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 51 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 32 (13.45%) ITIL
5 25 (10.50%) Service Delivery
6 22 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (7.98%) Information Security
8 17 (7.14%) Incident Management
8 17 (7.14%) Presales
9 16 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (6.30%) Mentoring
11 14 (5.88%) Project Management
12 13 (5.46%) Project Delivery
13 12 (5.04%) Decision-Making
13 12 (5.04%) Infrastructure Management
13 12 (5.04%) Roadmaps
14 11 (4.62%) Mathematics
14 11 (4.62%) Time Management
15 10 (4.20%) Computer Science
15 10 (4.20%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.87%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.98%) Python
3 17 (7.14%) Bash
4 6 (2.52%) SQL
5 5 (2.10%) Perl
6 1 (0.42%) Korn
6 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (11.76%) Degree
2 27 (11.34%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.14%) CCNA
5 14 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.46%) DBS Check
7 10 (4.20%) MCP
7 10 (4.20%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.78%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.36%) CCIE
9 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.36%) MCSE
10 7 (2.94%) CCNP
11 6 (2.52%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.10%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.26%) MCSA
14 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (4.62%) GDPR
3 10 (4.20%) SLA
4 6 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (30.25%) Active Directory
2 47 (19.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (16.81%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.04%) vSphere
5 8 (3.36%) Firmware
6 7 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.84%) Docker
8 2 (0.84%) KVM
8 2 (0.84%) QEMU
8 2 (0.84%) Xen
9 1 (0.42%) NFS
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.46%) SCCM
3 12 (5.04%) FortiGate
4 10 (4.20%) Ansible
5 9 (3.78%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.52%) SmoothWall
6 6 (2.52%) VxRail
7 5 (2.10%) Puppet
7 5 (2.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 5 (2.10%) Terraform
8 4 (1.68%) WSUS
9 3 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.42%) Nessus
11 1 (0.42%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 119 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 82 (34.45%) VMware
3 63 (26.47%) Cisco
4 30 (12.61%) Aruba
5 24 (10.08%) HP
5 24 (10.08%) Juniper
6 17 (7.14%) Fortinet
7 15 (6.30%) Meraki
8 14 (5.88%) Google
9 13 (5.46%) Dell
10 9 (3.78%) Ubiquiti
11 8 (3.36%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.52%) Citrix
12 6 (2.52%) Draytek
12 6 (2.52%) Veeam
13 5 (2.10%) BT
13 5 (2.10%) Mitel
14 4 (1.68%) ConnectWise
14 4 (1.68%) Webroot
15 3 (1.26%) 3PAR