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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 182 317
Rank change year-on-year -43 +135 -45
Contract jobs citing LAN 175 362 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 1.43% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.47% 14.04% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 199 210
10th Percentile £183 £208 £208
25th Percentile £350 £336 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +5.79% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £578
90th Percentile £745 £750 £677
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +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 £65.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -64.66% +191.11% -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 1,672 2,578 3,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.47% 10.20% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,816 2,601
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% - +13.46%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £656
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 48 90
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.48
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.27 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +30.12% -43.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £67.44 £44.33
90th Percentile £59.75 £75.00 £65.93
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.02%

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 7 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 7 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 +18 29 £500 -11.50% 6
West London +17 4 £600 +189.16% 4
East London -2 3 £125 -50.50% 5
South London -2 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 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.14%) MS Visio
3 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.57%) Azure
2 38 (21.71%) AWS
3 23 (13.14%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.71%) GCP
5 7 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.00%) IaaS
5 7 (4.00%) SaaS
6 6 (3.43%) Mimecast
6 6 (3.43%) WhatsApp
7 5 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.86%) OCI
8 4 (2.29%) PaaS
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.71%) Route 53
9 3 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 135 (77.14%) WAN
2 97 (55.43%) Firewall
3 57 (32.57%) Wireless
4 53 (30.29%) VPN
5 52 (29.71%) BGP
6 51 (29.14%) OSPF
7 34 (19.43%) DNS
8 31 (17.71%) DHCP
9 30 (17.14%) WLAN
10 29 (16.57%) SD-WAN
11 28 (16.00%) MPLS
12 27 (15.43%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (13.71%) Cisco Nexus
14 23 (13.14%) IPsec
15 20 (11.43%) EIGRP
15 20 (11.43%) VLAN
16 19 (10.86%) Network Security
17 17 (9.71%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (9.71%) TCP/IP
18 14 (8.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) MySQL
2 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Git
2 1 (0.57%) Gradle
2 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.14%) Finance
3 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.71%) Mandarin Language
6 6 (3.43%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.86%) Banking
8 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Aviation
9 2 (1.14%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (36.57%) Network Engineer
2 18 (10.29%) Architect
2 18 (10.29%) Senior
3 13 (7.43%) IT Engineer
3 13 (7.43%) IT Support
4 12 (6.86%) Network Specialist
4 12 (6.86%) Support Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.57%) Desktop Support
7 8 (4.57%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Consultant
9 6 (3.43%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (3.43%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) IT Technician
9 6 (3.43%) Support Technician
9 6 (3.43%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.43%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.29%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.71%) LDAP
3 3 (1.71%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.14%) Jinja
4 2 (1.14%) JSON
4 2 (1.14%) RESTful
4 2 (1.14%) XML
4 2 (1.14%) YANG
5 1 (0.57%) EDI
5 1 (0.57%) LAMP
5 1 (0.57%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.57%) libvirt
5 1 (0.57%) Middleware
5 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.14%) Data Centre
2 19 (10.86%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (10.29%) PKI
4 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.29%) CMDB
6 4 (2.29%) iPhone
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.71%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.14%) CCTV
8 2 (1.14%) Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.71%) Windows
2 20 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.14%) Mac OS
4 11 (6.29%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.71%) Linux
6 6 (3.43%) Unix
7 5 (2.86%) Android
8 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.71%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.57%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.57%) ITIL
2 27 (15.43%) Change Management
2 27 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (11.43%) Migration
4 19 (10.86%) Kalman Filter
5 15 (8.57%) Customer Service
5 15 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (8.00%) Agile
6 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (6.86%) Server Management
8 11 (6.29%) Asset Management
8 11 (6.29%) Capacity Management
8 11 (6.29%) Computer Science
8 11 (6.29%) Problem Management
9 10 (5.71%) Cloud Security
9 10 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
9 10 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (5.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.71%) Python
2 11 (6.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.29%) Bash
3 4 (2.29%) SQL
4 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.57%) Java
5 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (23.43%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (17.71%) CCNP
3 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 24 (13.71%) Degree
5 23 (13.14%) CCNA
6 12 (6.86%) CCIE
6 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.14%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.43%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.14%) PMP
12 2 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (1.14%) RIBA
13 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.57%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.00%) SLA
2 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.14%) NCSC
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 27 (15.43%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.29%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.43%) Firmware
6 3 (1.71%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.71%) Docker
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.57%) Ceph
8 1 (0.57%) iptables
8 1 (0.57%) KVM
8 1 (0.57%) NFS
8 1 (0.57%) Samba
8 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (6.86%) Terraform
2 9 (5.14%) SCCM
3 8 (4.57%) Ansible
3 8 (4.57%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.29%) SCOM
6 4 (2.29%) VxRail
7 3 (1.71%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.71%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.71%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.14%) Nessus
8 2 (1.14%) Nmap
8 2 (1.14%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.57%) OPNET
9 1 (0.57%) SELinux
9 1 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 96 (54.86%) Cisco
2 46 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 40 (22.86%) Palo Alto
4 30 (17.14%) F5
5 28 (16.00%) Juniper
6 21 (12.00%) Fortinet
7 20 (11.43%) CheckPoint
7 20 (11.43%) VMware
8 15 (8.57%) Infoblox
9 14 (8.00%) SolarWinds
10 13 (7.43%) ServiceNow
11 12 (6.86%) Aruba
12 9 (5.14%) Dell
12 9 (5.14%) HP
13 7 (4.00%) Google
13 7 (4.00%) TOWER Software
14 6 (3.43%) Commvault
14 6 (3.43%) Meraki
15 5 (2.86%) Blue Coat
15 5 (2.86%) Extreme Networks