LAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 108 104 116
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing LAN 408 561 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.01% 2.44% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.49% 16.15% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 365 443
10th Percentile £200 £250 £180
25th Percentile £269 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +13.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £525 £513
90th Percentile £710 £595 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £461 £427
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.90% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 26 47
10th Percentile £12.72 £21.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £34.56 £16.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.65% +197.73% -1.87%
75th Percentile £40.00 £75.00 £46.13
90th Percentile £42.40 £80.25 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £27.21
% change year-on-year -65.38% +138.93% +21.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,267 3,473 4,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.10% 15.10% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,187 2,638
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 312 242
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.82
Median hourly rate £45.88 £17.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.48% -17.44% -8.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.49 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for LAN in the UK excluding London

LAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East 0 146 £375 -16.67% 41
South West +23 86 £650 +30.00% 26
Midlands +13 73 £475 +22.58% 46
North of England -22 66 £325 -18.75% 82
West Midlands +26 61 £457 +12.02% 30
Yorkshire +26 37 £325 -21.21% 22
North West -42 27 £350 -12.50% 55
East of England -15 18 £525 +35.48% 34
Scotland +14 17 £450 - 7
East Midlands -1 11 £555 +58.57% 16
Wales -3 8 £241 -35.67% 10
North East +9 2 £400 +117.69% 5
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.25%) RMDS
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (11.27%) Azure
2 44 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (7.84%) IaaS
3 32 (7.84%) PaaS
4 30 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
5 29 (7.11%) SaaS
6 20 (4.90%) AWS
7 4 (0.98%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.74%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.74%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.49%) GCP
9 2 (0.49%) GitHub
9 2 (0.49%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.25%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.25%) OCI
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 328 (80.39%) WAN
2 117 (28.68%) Firewall
3 102 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 82 (20.10%) VPN
5 55 (13.48%) Wireless
6 42 (10.29%) DHCP
7 41 (10.05%) DNS
8 37 (9.07%) MPLS
9 36 (8.82%) SD-WAN
10 35 (8.58%) WLAN
11 29 (7.11%) SAN
12 23 (5.64%) VoIP
13 22 (5.39%) Network Security
14 21 (5.15%) OSPF
15 20 (4.90%) BGP
15 20 (4.90%) Internet
16 19 (4.66%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (4.41%) Cisco ASA
17 18 (4.41%) Ethernet
17 18 (4.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (0.98%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 28 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.62%) Finance
5 26 (6.37%) Telecoms
6 20 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.21%) Legal
8 8 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.96%) Retail
9 6 (1.47%) Back Office
10 5 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.23%) Military
11 4 (0.98%) Marketing
12 3 (0.74%) Automotive
12 3 (0.74%) Electronics
12 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 137 (33.58%) Architect
2 108 (26.47%) Network Architect
3 105 (25.74%) Network Engineer
4 27 (6.62%) Support Engineer
5 26 (6.37%) Senior
6 21 (5.15%) Analyst
6 21 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (4.66%) IT Engineer
7 19 (4.66%) Technical Architect
8 16 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
9 15 (3.68%) Hardware Engineer
10 14 (3.43%) IT Support
11 13 (3.19%) Lead
11 13 (3.19%) Technical Support
12 12 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (2.94%) Field Engineer
12 12 (2.94%) Project Manager
13 11 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
14 10 (2.45%) IT Analyst
14 10 (2.45%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.94%) Web Services
2 8 (1.96%) Middleware
3 3 (0.74%) .NET
3 3 (0.74%) J2EE
3 3 (0.74%) XMPP
4 2 (0.49%) XML
4 2 (0.49%) XSLT
5 1 (0.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (21.57%) Data Centre
2 29 (7.11%) Driving Licence
3 16 (3.92%) Clustering
4 13 (3.19%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.94%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.21%) CMDB
7 9 (2.21%) NHS
7 9 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.72%) PKI
9 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.98%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.98%) Replication
10 4 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (0.74%) AS400
11 3 (0.74%) Blog
11 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 124 (30.39%) Windows
2 46 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 38 (9.31%) Windows 10
4 37 (9.07%) Linux
5 17 (4.17%) Unix
6 15 (3.68%) Windows 7
7 12 (2.94%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (1.23%) Android
12 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.98%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.98%) CentOS
14 3 (0.74%) Debian
15 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.49%) zOS
16 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (11.76%) ITIL
3 46 (11.27%) Customer Service
4 40 (9.80%) Business Strategy
4 40 (9.80%) Network Management
5 38 (9.31%) Project Delivery
6 36 (8.82%) Migration
7 35 (8.58%) Customer Requirements
8 34 (8.33%) Project Management
9 33 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (7.84%) Zero Trust
11 30 (7.35%) Agile
12 27 (6.62%) Open Source
13 23 (5.64%) Decision-Making
14 21 (5.15%) Data Protection
15 20 (4.90%) Service Delivery
16 17 (4.17%) Network Architecture
17 16 (3.92%) Analytics
17 16 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
18 15 (3.68%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.13%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.47%) SQL
3 5 (1.23%) Bash
4 3 (0.74%) Python
5 2 (0.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 184 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 72 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 68 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 68 (16.67%) Degree
4 47 (11.52%) CCNA
4 47 (11.52%) SC Cleared
5 34 (8.33%) CCNP
6 14 (3.43%) JNCIA
7 12 (2.94%) CCIE
8 9 (2.21%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.23%) CCSA
11 5 (1.23%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.98%) HND
13 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.74%) ECDL
13 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.74%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.58%) SLA
2 13 (3.19%) QA
3 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) COBIT
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 61 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 60 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.66%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.17%) Firmware
5 14 (3.43%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.45%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.23%) vSphere
10 4 (0.98%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.74%) XenApp
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.25%) Docker
13 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 47 (11.52%) SCCM
2 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (2.45%) vCenter Server
4 8 (1.96%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.96%) Nagios
4 8 (1.96%) NetBackup
5 6 (1.47%) Autotask
5 6 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.47%) SCOM
6 5 (1.23%) OpenView
6 5 (1.23%) VxRail
7 3 (0.74%) AppManager
7 3 (0.74%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.49%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.49%) OPNET
8 2 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 161 (39.46%) Cisco
2 83 (20.34%) Microsoft
3 75 (18.38%) VMware
4 70 (17.16%) Juniper
5 32 (7.84%) Palo Alto
6 26 (6.37%) HP
7 25 (6.13%) Aruba
8 22 (5.39%) CheckPoint
9 19 (4.66%) Meraki
10 17 (4.17%) Fortinet
11 16 (3.92%) Citrix
12 11 (2.70%) 3Com
12 11 (2.70%) Brocade
12 11 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 10 (2.45%) NetApp
13 10 (2.45%) SAP
14 9 (2.21%) Apple
15 8 (1.96%) F5
15 8 (1.96%) Hitachi
15 8 (1.96%) Zscaler