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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 0
Contract jobs citing LAN 2 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.64% 1.34% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.00% 13.33% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £319
25th Percentile £285 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £305 - £403
90th Percentile - - £416
South West median daily rate £325 £435 £450
% change year-on-year -25.29% -3.33% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
South West median hourly rate - £42.00 -

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 40 45 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.86% 10.04% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 36
10th Percentile £221 £220 £380
25th Percentile £270 £436 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% - +0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £691
90th Percentile £636 £623 £788
South West median daily rate £490 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -6.22% -0.48% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - £15.75 £23.63
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.74% -47.54%
75th Percentile - £17.25 £56.63
90th Percentile - - £73.65
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -5.85%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN 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 17 September 2025. 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 +20 1 £295 -26.25% 2
LAN
South West

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PC Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy