LAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 145 147
Rank change year-on-year +48 +2 -37
Permanent jobs citing LAN 196 112 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.32% 1.94% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.76% 10.33% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 162 103 143
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,550 £29,900
25th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,313 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.88% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50,250 £53,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,045 1,084 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.37% 18.74% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 777 510 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,156
90th Percentile £68,300 £73,075 £75,000
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the West Midlands

LAN
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +10 59 £42,000 -23.64% 8
Worcestershire -8 30 £48,500 +6.57% 1
Warwickshire +37 26 £37,500 -29.91% 6
Staffordshire -34 26 £34,500 -1.43% 10
Shropshire +6 25 £36,500 +40.38%
Coventry +22 8 £15,922 -58.10%
Solihull - 5 £65,000 - 8
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Wednesbury -6 1 - - 1
Brierley Hill - 1 £26,000 -
Walsall - 1 - -
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 18 (9.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 38 (19.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.55%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (25.51%) Azure
3 18 (9.18%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (1.53%) Google Workspace
4 3 (1.53%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.02%) AWS
5 2 (1.02%) Azure Stack
5 2 (1.02%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.51%) GCP
6 1 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (85.71%) WAN
2 67 (34.18%) Firewall
3 55 (28.06%) WLAN
4 54 (27.55%) SD-WAN
5 51 (26.02%) TCP/IP
6 50 (25.51%) MPLS
7 37 (18.88%) DNS
7 37 (18.88%) Wireless
8 35 (17.86%) BGP
9 34 (17.35%) DHCP
10 33 (16.84%) OSPF
10 33 (16.84%) VLAN
11 28 (14.29%) VPN
12 25 (12.76%) VoIP
12 25 (12.76%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (9.69%) Network Security
14 16 (8.16%) SAN
15 10 (5.10%) Intrusion Detection
16 9 (4.59%) Ethernet
17 8 (4.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.55%) MySQL
4 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.02%) Power BI
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 70 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.22%) Finance
2 22 (11.22%) Retail
3 14 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.59%) Law
6 9 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.06%) Local Government
8 5 (2.55%) Automotive
9 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Electronics
10 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (28.06%) Analyst
2 36 (18.37%) Network Analyst
3 34 (17.35%) Network Operations Analyst
3 34 (17.35%) Operations Analyst
4 30 (15.31%) Senior
5 21 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (10.20%) Administrator
7 19 (9.69%) Network Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) IT Support
9 15 (7.65%) IT Technician
10 14 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 14 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
11 11 (5.61%) Senior Network Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Help Desk Analyst
13 9 (4.59%) 1st Line Support Technician
13 9 (4.59%) ICT Assistant
13 9 (4.59%) ICT Support
13 9 (4.59%) Support Assistant
13 9 (4.59%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.55%) HTML
2 2 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.67%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.59%) Wiki
5 7 (3.57%) CCTV
5 7 (3.57%) FMCG
6 6 (3.06%) Cyberattack
6 6 (3.06%) IoT
7 5 (2.55%) Clustering
7 5 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.04%) PKI
8 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) EPoS
9 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Replication
10 1 (0.51%) SCADA
10 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (35.71%) Windows
2 42 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.71%) Windows 10
4 17 (8.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (6.63%) Linux
6 12 (6.12%) Windows 7
7 10 (5.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (3.06%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.04%) CentOS
10 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.02%) Android
11 2 (1.02%) SUSE
11 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (11.73%) Customer Service
3 23 (11.73%) Patch Management
4 22 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.69%) CRM
6 17 (8.67%) Project Delivery
7 15 (7.65%) Network Monitoring
8 14 (7.14%) Roadmaps
9 13 (6.63%) Asset Management
10 11 (5.61%) ERP
10 11 (5.61%) Network Virtualisation
11 10 (5.10%) Change Management
11 10 (5.10%) Critical Thinking
11 10 (5.10%) ITIL
11 10 (5.10%) Mentoring
11 10 (5.10%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (5.10%) Time Management
12 9 (4.59%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.78%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.73%) SQL
3 9 (4.59%) Perl
3 9 (4.59%) Python
4 5 (2.55%) PHP
5 4 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 52 (26.53%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (21.94%) CCNP
3 39 (19.90%) CCNA
4 31 (15.82%) CCIE
5 25 (12.76%) CCDP
5 25 (12.76%) Degree
6 10 (5.10%) DBS Check
6 10 (5.10%) Security Cleared
7 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 7 (3.57%) MCSE
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (2.04%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.53%) CCDA
12 2 (1.02%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.02%) CISA
12 2 (1.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.61%) SLA
2 7 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (34.18%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.22%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.59%) vSphere
5 8 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.57%) Firmware
7 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.55%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.04%) VMware Server
10 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.55%) SCCM
2 5 (2.55%) vCenter Server
3 4 (2.04%) Autotask
3 4 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.53%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.02%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.51%) Nagios
6 1 (0.51%) SCOM
6 1 (0.51%) Terraform
6 1 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 47 (23.98%) Cisco
3 43 (21.94%) VMware
4 25 (12.76%) Juniper
5 12 (6.12%) Aruba
5 12 (6.12%) Veeam
6 11 (5.61%) CheckPoint
7 10 (5.10%) HP
8 9 (4.59%) Meraki
9 8 (4.08%) Citrix
9 8 (4.08%) Dell
9 8 (4.08%) Ekahau
9 8 (4.08%) Sophos
10 7 (3.57%) Nokia
10 7 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless
11 6 (3.06%) Apple
11 6 (3.06%) Ericsson
12 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
13 4 (2.04%) EqualLogic