Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 221 276
Rank change year-on-year +57 +55 -61
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,802 1,700 2,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 1.71% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.37% 10.88% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,521 1,283 1,867
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +62 1,662 £45,000 - 345
UK excluding London +27 1,278 £42,500 +2.41% 263
Work from Home +66 616 £50,000 - 176
London +88 462 £55,000 - 114
North of England +36 386 £40,000 -11.11% 86
Midlands +45 249 £42,000 +9.09% 44
South East +4 239 £45,000 +12.50% 62
North West +25 208 £42,500 -5.56% 60
West Midlands +71 203 £40,313 -4.02% 26
South West +37 195 £42,500 +0.59% 23
Yorkshire +75 153 £42,500 -5.56% 22
East of England +24 141 £43,750 +9.38% 32
Scotland -79 44 £35,000 -11.39% 8
North East -19 38 £38,000 -10.59% 4
East Midlands -31 37 £45,000 +21.27% 18
Wales +21 35 £40,500 -10.00% 10
Northern Ireland +5 7 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1

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
1 219 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 192 (10.65%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.94%) IIS
3 17 (0.94%) SharePoint 2010
3 17 (0.94%) SharePoint 2013
4 10 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.50%) Skype for Business
6 8 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
8 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) Moodle
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.055%) Confluence
Applications
1 205 (11.38%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) Revit
5 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.22%) Epicor Tropos
5 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.055%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 679 (37.68%) Azure
2 667 (37.01%) Microsoft 365
3 203 (11.27%) Entra ID
4 187 (10.38%) AWS
5 64 (3.55%) OneDrive
6 60 (3.33%) SaaS
7 59 (3.27%) IaaS
8 48 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
8 48 (2.66%) PaaS
9 47 (2.61%) GCP
10 32 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.44%) Power Platform
12 23 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 16 (0.89%) Mimecast
16 13 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (0.72%) Rubrik
17 12 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
18 11 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,508 (83.68%) WAN
2 749 (41.56%) Firewall
3 463 (25.69%) VPN
4 436 (24.20%) Wi-Fi
5 379 (21.03%) Wireless
6 364 (20.20%) DNS
7 347 (19.26%) TCP/IP
8 326 (18.09%) DHCP
9 245 (13.60%) Network Security
10 242 (13.43%) SD-WAN
11 240 (13.32%) WLAN
12 215 (11.93%) MPLS
13 189 (10.49%) VLAN
14 175 (9.71%) Internet
15 169 (9.38%) BGP
16 159 (8.82%) OSPF
17 121 (6.71%) SAN
18 119 (6.60%) VoIP
19 69 (3.83%) IPsec
20 64 (3.55%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.05%) MySQL
3 15 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.78%) Power BI
5 10 (0.55%) DB2
6 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.22%) QlikView
9 3 (0.17%) Big Data
9 3 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.17%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (0.78%) JIRA
2 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.39%) Git
4 4 (0.22%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 535 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 180 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (9.38%) Finance
4 112 (6.22%) Retail
5 108 (5.99%) Telecoms
6 85 (4.72%) Law
7 69 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
9 51 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 50 (2.77%) Manufacturing
11 45 (2.50%) Legal
12 39 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.11%) Banking
15 18 (1.00%) Local Government
15 18 (1.00%) Police
16 16 (0.89%) Marketing
17 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 12 (0.67%) Games
19 11 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 389 (21.59%) Network Engineer
2 262 (14.54%) Analyst
3 238 (13.21%) Senior
4 229 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 159 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 154 (8.55%) IT Support
7 117 (6.49%) IT Engineer
8 88 (4.88%) Architect
9 86 (4.77%) Senior Network Engineer
10 81 (4.50%) IT Analyst
11 79 (4.38%) Network Analyst
12 70 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support
13 66 (3.66%) Lead
14 65 (3.61%) Service Analyst
15 63 (3.50%) IT Manager
16 62 (3.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 62 (3.44%) Service Desk Analyst
17 61 (3.39%) Support Analyst
18 60 (3.33%) Consultant
19 58 (3.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.66%) 802.1X
2 22 (1.22%) LDAP
3 10 (0.55%) SAML
4 9 (0.50%) HTML
5 8 (0.44%) .NET
5 8 (0.44%) WebSphere MQ
5 8 (0.44%) XML
6 6 (0.33%) EDI
7 5 (0.28%) XMPP
8 4 (0.22%) Akka
8 4 (0.22%) Web Services
9 3 (0.17%) Middleware
10 2 (0.11%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.11%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.11%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.11%) Node.js
10 2 (0.11%) React
10 2 (0.11%) RESTful
10 2 (0.11%) ServiceStack
10 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 284 (15.76%) Data Centre
2 120 (6.66%) Management Information System
3 87 (4.83%) Driving Licence
4 57 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.72%) PKI
7 48 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 36 (2.00%) CCTV
9 29 (1.61%) Client/Server
9 29 (1.61%) Cyberattack
9 29 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 26 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 25 (1.39%) IoT
12 22 (1.22%) NHS
13 17 (0.94%) Replication
14 16 (0.89%) Clustering
14 16 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 16 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
15 15 (0.83%) Fat Client
15 15 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 781 (43.34%) Windows
2 382 (21.20%) Windows Server
3 187 (10.38%) Linux
4 174 (9.66%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.55%) Android
6 76 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 75 (4.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 60 (3.33%) Mac OS
9 57 (3.16%) Apple iOS
10 54 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 52 (2.89%) Ubuntu
12 47 (2.61%) VMS
13 39 (2.16%) Windows 7
14 27 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 22 (1.22%) CentOS
16 18 (1.00%) Unix
16 18 (1.00%) VyOS
17 15 (0.83%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
19 8 (0.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (18.87%) ITIL
2 322 (17.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 321 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 270 (14.98%) Customer Service
5 194 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 137 (7.60%) Agile
6 137 (7.60%) Roadmaps
7 126 (6.99%) Disaster Recovery
8 110 (6.10%) Project Management
9 109 (6.05%) Service Delivery
10 108 (5.99%) Project Delivery
11 105 (5.83%) Mentoring
12 102 (5.66%) Migration
13 94 (5.22%) Information Security
14 87 (4.83%) Change Management
14 87 (4.83%) Presales
15 81 (4.50%) Service Management
16 78 (4.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (4.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 72 (4.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 177 (9.82%) PowerShell
2 113 (6.27%) SQL
3 84 (4.66%) Python
4 45 (2.50%) Bash
5 18 (1.00%) Perl
6 6 (0.33%) C#
6 6 (0.33%) Java
7 4 (0.22%) PHP
8 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.11%) Bicep
9 2 (0.11%) Korn
9 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.055%) VBA
Qualifications
1 332 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
2 252 (13.98%) Degree
3 217 (12.04%) CCNA
4 173 (9.60%) Security Cleared
5 167 (9.27%) CCNP
6 85 (4.72%) SC Cleared
7 77 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 76 (4.22%) DV Cleared
9 75 (4.16%) CCIE
10 51 (2.83%) CISSP
10 51 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (2.50%) CCDP
12 44 (2.44%) DBS Check
13 40 (2.22%) JNCIA
14 39 (2.16%) MCSE
15 33 (1.83%) Azure Certification
16 29 (1.61%) A+ Certification
17 24 (1.33%) AWS Certification
18 23 (1.28%) PMI Certification
19 22 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.88%) SLA
2 63 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (1.44%) NIST
5 24 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.05%) GDPR
7 15 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 15 (0.83%) QA
8 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.33%) NCSC
10 5 (0.28%) IASME
10 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.11%) COBIT
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.11%) ITGC
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.055%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 702 (38.96%) Active Directory
2 324 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 217 (12.04%) Hyper-V
4 76 (4.22%) vSphere
5 60 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (1.28%) Firmware
9 19 (1.05%) XenApp
10 16 (0.89%) XenDesktop
11 10 (0.55%) Docker
12 8 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.33%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.28%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.17%) NFS
17 2 (0.11%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 189 (10.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (4.66%) SCCM
3 67 (3.72%) Ansible
4 63 (3.50%) Terraform
5 49 (2.72%) WSUS
6 33 (1.83%) FortiGate
7 22 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (1.11%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.83%) Nmap
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 14 (0.78%) Autotask
11 13 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.67%) SmoothWall
13 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.44%) McAfee ePO
15 8 (0.44%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.39%) Backup Exec
16 7 (0.39%) Nagios
16 7 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 781 (43.34%) Microsoft
2 602 (33.41%) Cisco
3 474 (26.30%) VMware
4 177 (9.82%) Juniper
5 164 (9.10%) Fortinet
6 162 (8.99%) Meraki
7 122 (6.77%) Aruba
8 115 (6.38%) HP
9 106 (5.88%) Palo Alto
10 100 (5.55%) Citrix
11 85 (4.72%) Veeam
12 76 (4.22%) SolarWinds
13 70 (3.88%) CheckPoint
14 60 (3.33%) Dell
15 57 (3.16%) Ruckus Wireless
16 54 (3.00%) Google
17 43 (2.39%) Apple
18 38 (2.11%) Nokia
19 30 (1.66%) Sophos
20 28 (1.55%) F5