LAN Contracts in the Midlands

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 62 75 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing LAN 73 91 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.71% 2.77% 2.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.73% 18.02% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 82
10th Percentile £200 £194 £164
25th Percentile £300 £294 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £700 £509 £450
90th Percentile £775 £569 £550
England median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £20.60 - £19.08
25th Percentile £21.25 - £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.88
90th Percentile - - £23.40
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 464 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.23% 15.38% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 331 390
10th Percentile £200 £248 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.13 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the Midlands

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +26 61 £457 +12.02% 29
East Midlands -1 11 £555 +58.57% 15
LAN
England

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (6.85%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.37%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) Azure
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.37%) AWS
3 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 65 (89.04%) WAN
2 19 (26.03%) Firewall
2 19 (26.03%) MPLS
2 19 (26.03%) VPN
3 16 (21.92%) DHCP
4 15 (20.55%) DNS
4 15 (20.55%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (17.81%) VoIP
6 11 (15.07%) SD-WAN
7 10 (13.70%) WLAN
8 9 (12.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (12.33%) PBX
9 8 (10.96%) BGP
9 8 (10.96%) Wireless
10 7 (9.59%) Cisco IOS
10 7 (9.59%) Junos
11 6 (8.22%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (8.22%) Internet
11 6 (8.22%) IPsec
11 6 (8.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 5 (6.85%) Back Office
4 5 (6.85%) Legal
5 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Advertising
7 1 (1.37%) Automotive
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (30.14%) Architect
2 18 (24.66%) Network Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Network Architect
4 9 (12.33%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Analyst
5 6 (8.22%) Network Support
5 6 (8.22%) Network Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Support Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.85%) Technical Support Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Server Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) VMWare Administrator
8 3 (4.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 3 (4.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) Web Services
2 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.48%) Clustering
2 4 (5.48%) PKI
3 3 (4.11%) AS400
3 3 (4.11%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) CMDB
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.77%) Windows
2 9 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.96%) Linux
4 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.85%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.48%) CentOS
5 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.11%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.37%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.81%) Analytics
2 12 (16.44%) Network Architecture
3 11 (15.07%) ITIL
4 10 (13.70%) Architectural Design
4 10 (13.70%) Programme Management
4 10 (13.70%) Project Delivery
5 9 (12.33%) Data Analytics
5 9 (12.33%) Load Balancing
5 9 (12.33%) Performance Management
5 9 (12.33%) SOA
5 9 (12.33%) Storage Management
6 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (9.59%) Technical Architecture
7 7 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (8.22%) Agile
8 6 (8.22%) Change Control
8 6 (8.22%) Data Protection
8 6 (8.22%) Network Design
8 6 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (8.22%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.48%) Bash
3 2 (2.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (35.62%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (19.18%) CCNA
3 14 (19.18%) CCNP
4 12 (16.44%) Degree
5 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
6 9 (12.33%) CCIE
6 9 (12.33%) CCIE Data Center
7 5 (6.85%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.22%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.48%) VMware Server
5 4 (5.48%) vSphere
6 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.37%) Docker
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) FortiGate
1 5 (6.85%) OpenView
1 5 (6.85%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.11%) Autotask
2 3 (4.11%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (4.11%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.11%) SCCM
3 2 (2.74%) SCOM
3 2 (2.74%) VxRail
4 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.37%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (46.58%) Cisco
2 14 (19.18%) VMware
3 12 (16.44%) Juniper
4 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (8.22%) Aruba
5 6 (8.22%) SAP
6 5 (6.85%) CheckPoint
6 5 (6.85%) F5
6 5 (6.85%) Infoblox
6 5 (6.85%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.85%) Symantec
6 5 (6.85%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.11%) Apple
7 3 (4.11%) Datto
8 2 (2.74%) Databricks
8 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.74%) McAfee
9 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.37%) Commvault
9 1 (1.37%) Sophos