LAN Jobs in the Thames Valley

Local Area Network (LAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 144 155
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing LAN 46 68 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 1.69% 1.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.47% 9.62% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27 55 91
10th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,089 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £48,223 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,500 £72,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.58% +7.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 711 707 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.37% 17.57% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 331 484 713
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the Thames Valley

LAN
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Berkshire +16 24 £37,500 -21.88% 7
Oxfordshire -19 18 £44,592 +8.76% 5
Buckinghamshire -19 5 £42,500 -22.73% 5
LAN
South East

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.52%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 46 (100.00%) WAN
2 28 (60.87%) Firewall
3 19 (41.30%) Network Security
4 17 (36.96%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (30.43%) VPN
6 10 (21.74%) MPLS
6 10 (21.74%) WLAN
7 9 (19.57%) DHCP
7 9 (19.57%) DNS
8 6 (13.04%) VoIP
9 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
9 4 (8.70%) VLAN
9 4 (8.70%) Wireless
10 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
11 2 (4.35%) 4G
11 2 (4.35%) 5G
11 2 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (4.35%) NGFW
12 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.17%) Local Government
4 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) IT Technician
4 7 (15.22%) Field Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Network Field Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior VoIP Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) VoIP Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support
7 3 (6.52%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (6.52%) Support Technician
8 2 (4.35%) Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Service Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) EDI
2 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.17%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) EPoS
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.35%) Android
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) CentOS
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.26%) ITIL
3 11 (23.91%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (17.39%) Presales
6 7 (15.22%) Change Control
6 7 (15.22%) Network Architecture
7 6 (13.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Change Management
9 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
9 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.70%) Inventory Management
9 4 (8.70%) Project Management
9 4 (8.70%) Service Delivery
9 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Management
10 3 (6.52%) Analytical Thinking
10 3 (6.52%) Data Security
10 3 (6.52%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.70%) Bash
1 4 (8.70%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (30.43%) CCNA
4 13 (28.26%) CCNP
5 10 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (21.74%) Degree
6 6 (13.04%) CTC Cleared
6 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
7 3 (6.52%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.17%) MCITP
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.17%) Nessus
3 1 (2.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Cisco
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
3 11 (23.91%) Fortinet
4 9 (19.57%) Palo Alto
5 8 (17.39%) HP
6 6 (13.04%) Infoblox
6 6 (13.04%) VMware
7 3 (6.52%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.35%) Citrix
8 2 (4.35%) Juniper
8 2 (4.35%) WatchGuard
9 1 (2.17%) Apple
9 1 (2.17%) Dell
9 1 (2.17%) Meraki
9 1 (2.17%) ProCurve
9 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.17%) Snow
9 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.17%) Splunk