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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 195 320
Rank change year-on-year -19 +125 -44
Contract jobs citing LAN 187 352 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.07% 1.36% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.24% 13.60% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 189 195
10th Percentile £195 £210 £211
25th Percentile £325 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +13.43%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £575
90th Percentile £744 £778 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - - £39.79
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £41.37
Median hourly rate £20.40 £20.00 £44.37
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -54.92% -11.26%
75th Percentile £23.80 £65.00 £48.06
90th Percentile - - £58.04
England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -65.38% +188.89% -4.76%

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 1,664 2,589 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.01% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,817 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +4.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 82
10th Percentile £14.46 £20.11 £20.90
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.09% +27.41% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.35
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +12 27 £400 -17.95% 21
West London +15 3 £525 +153.01% 3
East London -3 3 £125 -50.50% 3
South London 0 2 £450 -10.00% 2
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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.35%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) Azure
2 39 (20.86%) AWS
3 24 (12.83%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.95%) GCP
5 7 (3.74%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.21%) SaaS
7 5 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.67%) IaaS
7 5 (2.67%) Mimecast
7 5 (2.67%) OCI
7 5 (2.67%) WhatsApp
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.60%) PaaS
8 3 (1.60%) Route 53
8 3 (1.60%) Serverless
9 2 (1.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 148 (79.14%) WAN
2 104 (55.61%) Firewall
3 62 (33.16%) VPN
3 62 (33.16%) Wireless
4 55 (29.41%) OSPF
5 54 (28.88%) BGP
6 41 (21.93%) DNS
7 38 (20.32%) DHCP
8 32 (17.11%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (16.04%) WLAN
10 29 (15.51%) MPLS
10 29 (15.51%) SD-WAN
11 26 (13.90%) IPsec
12 23 (12.30%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (11.76%) VLAN
14 21 (11.23%) Network Security
15 20 (10.70%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (10.70%) EIGRP
16 19 (10.16%) TCP/IP
17 15 (8.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.07%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
3 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Git
2 1 (0.53%) Gradle
2 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.65%) Finance
3 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.88%) Mandarin Language
6 9 (4.81%) Banking
7 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.21%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Front Office
10 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.07%) Aviation
11 2 (1.07%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.07%) Military
11 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (33.16%) Network Engineer
2 20 (10.70%) Senior
3 19 (10.16%) Architect
4 17 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.95%) IT Support
5 13 (6.95%) Network Specialist
6 12 (6.42%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Cisco Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Network Architect
9 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Desktop Support
11 7 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (3.74%) Project Manager
12 6 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.21%) IT Support Technician
12 6 (3.21%) Support Technician
12 6 (3.21%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.21%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.74%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.14%) LDAP
2 4 (2.14%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.07%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.07%) Jinja
3 2 (1.07%) JSON
3 2 (1.07%) RESTful
3 2 (1.07%) Software Packaging
3 2 (1.07%) XML
3 2 (1.07%) YANG
4 1 (0.53%) EDI
4 1 (0.53%) LAMP
4 1 (0.53%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.53%) libvirt
4 1 (0.53%) Middleware
4 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.90%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.70%) PKI
2 20 (10.70%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.67%) NHS
6 4 (2.14%) CMDB
6 4 (2.14%) iPhone
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.60%) CCTV
7 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Clustering
8 2 (1.07%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.07%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.07%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.99%) Windows
2 23 (12.30%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.56%) Mac OS
4 11 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.35%) Linux
6 5 (2.67%) Android
6 5 (2.67%) Unix
7 3 (1.60%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.53%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.04%) ITIL
2 27 (14.44%) Change Management
3 26 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (11.23%) Migration
5 17 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 17 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 15 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (7.49%) Agile
8 13 (6.95%) Project Management
8 13 (6.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (6.42%) Asset Management
9 12 (6.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (5.88%) Network Architecture
10 11 (5.88%) Problem Management
10 11 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (5.88%) Threat Management
11 10 (5.35%) Capacity Management
11 10 (5.35%) Cloud Security
11 10 (5.35%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.09%) Python
2 14 (7.49%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.67%) SQL
4 4 (2.14%) Bash
5 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) Java
6 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (18.18%) CCNP
3 25 (13.37%) Degree
4 24 (12.83%) Security Cleared
5 23 (12.30%) CCNA
6 13 (6.95%) SC Cleared
7 12 (6.42%) CCIE
8 9 (4.81%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.60%) MCSE
13 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.07%) PMP
13 2 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.53%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.76%) SLA
2 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.60%) QA
3 2 (1.07%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (14.97%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.81%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.74%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.21%) Firmware
6 5 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.60%) Docker
9 2 (1.07%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.07%) vSphere
10 1 (0.53%) Ceph
10 1 (0.53%) iptables
10 1 (0.53%) KVM
10 1 (0.53%) Lustre
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.53%) NFS
10 1 (0.53%) Samba
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.88%) FortiGate
1 11 (5.88%) Terraform
2 8 (4.28%) SCCM
3 7 (3.74%) Ansible
4 6 (3.21%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.60%) SCOM
7 3 (1.60%) TrustSec
7 3 (1.60%) VxRail
8 2 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.07%) Nessus
8 2 (1.07%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.07%) Nmap
8 2 (1.07%) OpenNMS
8 2 (1.07%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.07%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 101 (54.01%) Cisco
2 48 (25.67%) Microsoft
3 45 (24.06%) Palo Alto
4 34 (18.18%) F5
5 26 (13.90%) Juniper
6 24 (12.83%) CheckPoint
6 24 (12.83%) Fortinet
7 19 (10.16%) VMware
8 15 (8.02%) Infoblox
9 13 (6.95%) ServiceNow
9 13 (6.95%) SolarWinds
10 11 (5.88%) Aruba
10 11 (5.88%) Meraki
11 8 (4.28%) Dell
11 8 (4.28%) Google
12 7 (3.74%) TOWER Software
13 6 (3.21%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (3.21%) HP
14 5 (2.67%) Blue Coat
14 5 (2.67%) Citrix