LAN Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Local Area Network (LAN)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.79% 1.75% 4.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% 8.93% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - £300 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £734
90th Percentile - - £750
South West median daily rate £500 £456 £650
% change year-on-year +9.59% -29.81% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
75th Percentile £12.69 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £12.56 £11.91 £28.25
% change year-on-year +5.46% -57.84% -42.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 56 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.33% 19.65% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 41
10th Percentile £205 £300 £345
25th Percentile £206 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -0.36% +19.57%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £688
90th Percentile £616 £715 £776
South West median daily rate £500 £548 £535
% change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
75th Percentile £12.69 - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £21.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

LAN job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing LAN

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 6 £400 -
LAN
South West

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
2 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support
1 4 (66.67%) IT Support Specialist
1 4 (66.67%) Junior
1 4 (66.67%) Junior IT Support
1 4 (66.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) FinOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) NetScout
2 1 (16.67%) VMware