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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 224 264
Rank change year-on-year +63 +40 -52
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,813 1,702 2,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.68% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.41% 10.81% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,293 1,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,350 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,475 £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 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

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 10 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 10 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 +74 1,671 £45,000 +0.90% 339
UK excluding London +24 1,286 £42,500 +2.41% 259
Work from Home +65 620 £50,000 - 121
London +93 463 £55,000 - 98
North of England +37 385 £40,000 -11.11% 86
Midlands +42 250 £42,000 +6.33% 50
South East +6 242 £45,000 +12.50% 53
North West +21 206 £42,500 -5.56% 56
West Midlands +63 204 £40,313 -4.02% 35
South West +57 200 £45,000 +5.88% 22
Yorkshire +78 153 £42,500 -5.56% 24
East of England +29 139 £42,500 +11.84% 34
Scotland -74 43 £35,000 -11.39% 10
North East -19 37 £37,750 -11.18% 6
East Midlands -37 37 £45,000 +21.27% 15
Wales +21 36 £40,500 -10.00% 8
Northern Ireland +6 7 £37,500 -11.76% 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
1 222 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (10.42%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.94%) IIS
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint 2010
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint 2013
5 10 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.50%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) Apache
10 4 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) Moodle
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.055%) CMS
13 1 (0.055%) Confluence
Applications
1 207 (11.42%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.99%) 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 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.22%) Epicor Tropos
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.055%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 684 (37.73%) Azure
2 668 (36.85%) Microsoft 365
3 202 (11.14%) Entra ID
4 188 (10.37%) AWS
5 64 (3.53%) OneDrive
6 61 (3.36%) IaaS
7 60 (3.31%) SaaS
8 49 (2.70%) PaaS
9 48 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
10 46 (2.54%) GCP
11 32 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.43%) Power Platform
13 23 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (0.88%) Mimecast
17 13 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 13 (0.72%) Rubrik
18 12 (0.66%) AWS Direct Connect
19 10 (0.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,518 (83.73%) WAN
2 755 (41.64%) Firewall
3 465 (25.65%) VPN
4 433 (23.88%) Wi-Fi
5 376 (20.74%) Wireless
6 367 (20.24%) DNS
7 347 (19.14%) TCP/IP
8 331 (18.26%) DHCP
9 246 (13.57%) Network Security
9 246 (13.57%) SD-WAN
10 239 (13.18%) WLAN
11 217 (11.97%) MPLS
12 187 (10.31%) VLAN
13 176 (9.71%) Internet
14 169 (9.32%) BGP
15 160 (8.83%) OSPF
16 125 (6.89%) SAN
17 120 (6.62%) VoIP
18 69 (3.81%) IPsec
19 64 (3.53%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 17 (0.94%) MySQL
3 15 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.77%) 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
8 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) QlikView
10 3 (0.17%) Big Data
10 3 (0.17%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.17%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.055%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 14 (0.77%) 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 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 181 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (9.32%) Finance
4 112 (6.18%) Telecoms
5 111 (6.12%) Retail
6 85 (4.69%) Law
7 70 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 52 (2.87%) Public Sector
10 50 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 46 (2.54%) Legal
12 39 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.05%) Banking
15 18 (0.99%) Local Government
15 18 (0.99%) Police
16 14 (0.77%) Marketing
17 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 12 (0.66%) Games
19 11 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 396 (21.84%) Network Engineer
2 264 (14.56%) Analyst
3 242 (13.35%) Senior
4 232 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 162 (8.94%) Support Engineer
6 153 (8.44%) IT Support
7 118 (6.51%) IT Engineer
8 90 (4.96%) Senior Network Engineer
9 89 (4.91%) Architect
10 83 (4.58%) Network Analyst
11 80 (4.41%) IT Analyst
12 70 (3.86%) 2nd Line Support
13 64 (3.53%) Service Analyst
14 63 (3.47%) IT Manager
14 63 (3.47%) Lead
15 62 (3.42%) Service Desk Analyst
16 61 (3.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 61 (3.36%) Consultant
17 59 (3.25%) Support Analyst
18 58 (3.20%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.65%) 802.1X
2 23 (1.27%) LDAP
3 10 (0.55%) SAML
4 8 (0.44%) .NET
4 8 (0.44%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (0.44%) XML
5 7 (0.39%) EDI
5 7 (0.39%) HTML
6 5 (0.28%) XMPP
7 4 (0.22%) Akka
7 4 (0.22%) Web Services
8 3 (0.17%) Middleware
9 2 (0.11%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.11%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.11%) LAMP
9 2 (0.11%) Node.js
9 2 (0.11%) React
9 2 (0.11%) RESTful
9 2 (0.11%) ServiceStack
9 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 284 (15.66%) Data Centre
2 123 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 88 (4.85%) Driving Licence
4 58 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.76%) PKI
7 49 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.99%) CCTV
9 30 (1.65%) Cyberattack
10 29 (1.60%) Client/Server
10 29 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 26 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 25 (1.38%) IoT
13 22 (1.21%) NHS
14 17 (0.94%) Replication
15 16 (0.88%) Clustering
15 16 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 16 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
16 15 (0.83%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 781 (43.08%) Windows
2 380 (20.96%) Windows Server
3 186 (10.26%) Linux
4 175 (9.65%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.52%) Android
6 75 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 73 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 60 (3.31%) Mac OS
9 57 (3.14%) Apple iOS
10 54 (2.98%) Windows Server 2012
11 51 (2.81%) Ubuntu
12 46 (2.54%) VMS
13 40 (2.21%) Windows 7
14 27 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 23 (1.27%) CentOS
16 18 (0.99%) VyOS
17 16 (0.88%) Unix
18 15 (0.83%) Mac OS X
18 15 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
19 7 (0.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (18.70%) ITIL
2 327 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
3 326 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 268 (14.78%) Customer Service
5 193 (10.65%) Cybersecurity
6 136 (7.50%) Roadmaps
7 135 (7.45%) Agile
8 127 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 111 (6.12%) Project Management
10 108 (5.96%) Service Delivery
11 106 (5.85%) Project Delivery
12 104 (5.74%) Mentoring
13 103 (5.68%) Migration
14 93 (5.13%) Information Security
15 88 (4.85%) Presales
16 86 (4.74%) Change Management
17 82 (4.52%) Service Management
18 80 (4.41%) Stakeholder Management
19 74 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
20 73 (4.03%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 180 (9.93%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.34%) SQL
3 87 (4.80%) Python
4 47 (2.59%) Bash
5 18 (0.99%) Perl
6 6 (0.33%) C#
6 6 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.11%) Bicep
8 2 (0.11%) Korn
8 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.11%) PHP
9 1 (0.055%) VBA
Qualifications
1 340 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 253 (13.95%) Degree
3 225 (12.41%) CCNA
4 179 (9.87%) Security Cleared
5 170 (9.38%) CCNP
6 88 (4.85%) SC Cleared
7 80 (4.41%) DV Cleared
8 79 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 77 (4.25%) CCIE
10 53 (2.92%) CISSP
11 50 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (2.59%) CCDP
13 44 (2.43%) DBS Check
14 41 (2.26%) JNCIA
15 38 (2.10%) MCSE
16 34 (1.88%) Azure Certification
17 31 (1.71%) A+ Certification
18 26 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
19 25 (1.38%) AWS Certification
20 22 (1.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.90%) SLA
2 63 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (1.32%) NIST
4 24 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.05%) GDPR
6 16 (0.88%) QA
7 15 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.28%) IASME
9 5 (0.28%) NCSC
9 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.055%) COBIT
12 1 (0.055%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 703 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 327 (18.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 218 (12.02%) Hyper-V
4 76 (4.19%) vSphere
5 60 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (1.27%) Firmware
9 18 (0.99%) XenApp
10 15 (0.83%) XenDesktop
11 11 (0.61%) 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
13 6 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.22%) NFS
14 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 186 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (4.63%) SCCM
3 68 (3.75%) Ansible
4 63 (3.47%) Terraform
5 49 (2.70%) WSUS
6 34 (1.88%) FortiGate
7 22 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.83%) Nmap
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 14 (0.77%) Autotask
11 13 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.66%) 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
1 784 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 605 (33.37%) Cisco
3 475 (26.20%) VMware
4 178 (9.82%) Juniper
5 168 (9.27%) Fortinet
6 165 (9.10%) Meraki
7 123 (6.78%) Aruba
8 116 (6.40%) HP
9 106 (5.85%) Palo Alto
10 99 (5.46%) Citrix
11 85 (4.69%) Veeam
12 75 (4.14%) SolarWinds
13 70 (3.86%) CheckPoint
14 59 (3.25%) Dell
15 56 (3.09%) Ruckus Wireless
16 53 (2.92%) Google
17 43 (2.37%) Apple
18 39 (2.15%) Nokia
19 29 (1.60%) F5
19 29 (1.60%) Sophos