LAN Contracts in England

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 144 210
Rank change year-on-year -13 +66 -4
Contract jobs citing LAN 568 903 1,013
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.54% 1.89% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 15.06% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 566 678
10th Percentile £200 £229 £188
25th Percentile £313 £319 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £550
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £457 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -3.89% +10.47% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 48
10th Percentile £12.82 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £37.50 £17.22
Median hourly rate £23.15 £65.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.38% +188.89% -30.77%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £40.60 £80.25 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -65.65% +151.92% +12.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,995 8,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 12.56% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,907 5,307
10th Percentile £213 £240 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £618
90th Percentile £697 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 407 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in England.

Daily rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in England

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in England

LAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London -28 182 £475 -6.40% 67
South East -6 145 £400 -11.11% 50
South West +22 86 £650 +30.00% 30
Midlands +5 67 £470 +15.34% 52
North of England -26 63 £350 -12.50% 85
West Midlands +8 57 £457 +15.94% 36
Yorkshire +31 34 £325 -18.75% 24
North West -50 27 £350 -17.65% 55
East of England -23 18 £525 +31.25% 30
East Midlands -3 9 £543 +42.76% 16
North East +11 2 £400 +190.91% 6
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
Applications
1 49 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (15.85%) Azure
2 64 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (10.92%) AWS
4 37 (6.51%) IaaS
5 36 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (6.34%) SaaS
6 34 (5.99%) PaaS
7 16 (2.82%) GCP
8 11 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.06%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.06%) OCI
9 6 (1.06%) WhatsApp
10 5 (0.88%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.53%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.53%) Rubrik
11 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 456 (80.28%) WAN
2 202 (35.56%) Firewall
3 133 (23.42%) VPN
4 132 (23.24%) Wi-Fi
5 112 (19.72%) Wireless
6 82 (14.44%) DNS
7 80 (14.08%) DHCP
8 76 (13.38%) OSPF
9 75 (13.20%) BGP
10 65 (11.44%) SD-WAN
10 65 (11.44%) WLAN
11 62 (10.92%) MPLS
12 47 (8.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 42 (7.39%) Network Security
14 40 (7.04%) IPsec
15 39 (6.87%) VLAN
16 38 (6.69%) SAN
17 36 (6.34%) VoIP
18 35 (6.16%) Cisco ASA
19 34 (5.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.18%) MySQL
3 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (0.70%) JIRA
2 3 (0.53%) Git
2 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.18%) Gradle
3 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 157 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.26%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.86%) Finance
4 46 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.94%) Mandarin Language
8 11 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.76%) Legal
10 9 (1.58%) Banking
11 8 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.23%) Military
12 7 (1.23%) Retail
13 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 170 (29.93%) Network Engineer
2 150 (26.41%) Architect
3 114 (20.07%) Network Architect
4 47 (8.27%) Senior
5 39 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 28 (4.93%) IT Engineer
6 28 (4.93%) IT Support
6 28 (4.93%) Senior Network Engineer
7 27 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (4.58%) Analyst
9 22 (3.87%) Technical Architect
10 18 (3.17%) 2nd Line Support
10 18 (3.17%) Lead
11 17 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (2.82%) Cisco Engineer
12 16 (2.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 16 (2.82%) Desktop Support
13 14 (2.46%) Network Specialist
14 13 (2.29%) Hardware Engineer
14 13 (2.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.76%) Middleware
1 10 (1.76%) Web Services
2 9 (1.58%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.88%) LDAP
3 5 (0.88%) XML
4 4 (0.70%) JSON
4 4 (0.70%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.53%) Software Packaging
5 3 (0.53%) XMPP
6 2 (0.35%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.35%) Jinja
6 2 (0.35%) RESTful
6 2 (0.35%) XSLT
6 2 (0.35%) YANG
7 1 (0.18%) EDI
7 1 (0.18%) LAMP
7 1 (0.18%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.18%) libvirt
7 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (19.54%) Data Centre
2 29 (5.11%) Driving Licence
3 28 (4.93%) PKI
4 24 (4.23%) Video Conferencing
5 17 (2.99%) Clustering
6 16 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.11%) CMDB
8 12 (2.11%) Operational Technology
9 10 (1.76%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.58%) NHS
11 6 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.06%) Replication
11 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.88%) CCTV
12 5 (0.88%) iPhone
13 4 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.53%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 153 (26.94%) Windows
2 59 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 46 (8.10%) Linux
4 45 (7.92%) Windows 10
5 29 (5.11%) Mac OS
6 19 (3.35%) Unix
7 16 (2.82%) Windows 7
8 12 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.58%) Android
11 7 (1.23%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.70%) CentOS
12 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.53%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.35%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.35%) zOS
15 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (13.20%) ITIL
3 55 (9.68%) Migration
4 54 (9.51%) Customer Service
5 44 (7.75%) Agile
5 44 (7.75%) Business Strategy
5 44 (7.75%) Change Management
5 44 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (7.04%) Network Management
7 39 (6.87%) Project Delivery
8 38 (6.69%) Project Management
9 36 (6.34%) Customer Requirements
10 34 (5.99%) Zero Trust
11 28 (4.93%) Network Architecture
11 28 (4.93%) Open Source
12 27 (4.75%) Kalman Filter
13 25 (4.40%) Asset Management
14 24 (4.23%) Server Management
14 24 (4.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (4.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.87%) PowerShell
2 23 (4.05%) Python
3 10 (1.76%) Bash
3 10 (1.76%) SQL
4 3 (0.53%) Java
5 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 202 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 111 (19.54%) Cisco Certification
3 82 (14.44%) Degree
4 76 (13.38%) DV Cleared
5 69 (12.15%) CCNA
6 68 (11.97%) CCNP
7 59 (10.39%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.40%) CCIE
9 15 (2.64%) JNCIA
10 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.58%) CCIE Data Center
13 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.06%) JNCIS
15 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.88%) CCSA
15 5 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.33%) SLA
2 15 (2.64%) QA
3 6 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (15.67%) Active Directory
2 69 (12.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.70%) Firmware
4 21 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
5 15 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.29%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.41%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (1.23%) vSphere
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.70%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.53%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.53%) Docker
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.53%) XenApp
13 1 (0.18%) NFS
13 1 (0.18%) Samba
13 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 50 (8.80%) SCCM
2 20 (3.52%) FortiGate
3 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.46%) Terraform
4 11 (1.94%) NetBackup
5 10 (1.76%) Ansible
5 10 (1.76%) SCOM
6 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
6 9 (1.58%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.41%) Nagios
7 8 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
7 8 (1.41%) VxRail
8 6 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.06%) Autotask
8 6 (1.06%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.88%) OpenView
10 4 (0.70%) Nessus
11 3 (0.53%) OPNET
Vendors
1 252 (44.37%) Cisco
2 122 (21.48%) Microsoft
3 97 (17.08%) Juniper
4 86 (15.14%) VMware
5 76 (13.38%) Palo Alto
6 44 (7.75%) CheckPoint
7 43 (7.57%) F5
8 39 (6.87%) Aruba
9 36 (6.34%) Fortinet
10 31 (5.46%) HP
11 27 (4.75%) Meraki
12 24 (4.23%) SolarWinds
13 23 (4.05%) Citrix
14 20 (3.52%) Infoblox
15 18 (3.17%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.46%) Brocade
17 12 (2.11%) Dell
17 12 (2.11%) Google
18 11 (1.94%) 3Com
18 11 (1.94%) Apple