LAN Contracts in Wales

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 34 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing LAN 8 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.19% 4.76% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 29.00% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 11
10th Percentile £215 £273 £155
25th Percentile £220 £273 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £241 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year -35.67% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £292 £484 £538
90th Percentile £319 £536 £626
UK median daily rate £450 £461 £427
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.90% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.36 - -
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
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 100 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.84% 16.42% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 79 120
10th Percentile £170 £250 £199
25th Percentile £199 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -57.07% +13.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £383 £563 £588
90th Percentile £651 £640 £655
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £14.84 - £12.63
25th Percentile £15.56 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.17%
75th Percentile £17.97 - £47.40
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for LAN in Wales

LAN
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Wales 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 Wales 0 7 £220 -45.00% 10
Dyfed - 1 £300 -
LAN
UK

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (37.50%) Wireless
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) WLAN
5 1 (12.50%) Broadband
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DMVPN
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
5 1 (12.50%) IPsec
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Network Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) WatchGuard
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki