LAN Contracts with Work from Home Options

Local Area Network (LAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 226 149 260
Rank change year-on-year -77 +111 +6
Contract jobs citing LAN 122 418 445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 1.70% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.95% 14.63% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 268 310
10th Percentile £275 £325 £263
25th Percentile £332 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £609 £559
90th Percentile £745 £700 £640
UK median daily rate £450 £461 £427
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.90% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 22 23
10th Percentile - £47.50 £22.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £51.25 £28.41
Median hourly rate £19.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.67% +57.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £19.50 £77.81 £65.54
90th Percentile - £80.25 £66.00
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,858 4,298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 11.60% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,891 2,912
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 105
10th Percentile £12.75 £22.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +18.36% +14.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

LAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LAN trend for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN.

LAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LAN over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

LAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LAN.

LAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.31%) Azure
2 16 (13.11%) AWS
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.92%) GCP
5 5 (4.10%) IaaS
6 4 (3.28%) PaaS
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.46%) Route 53
7 3 (2.46%) Serverless
7 3 (2.46%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.64%) GitHub
8 2 (1.64%) SaaS
9 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.82%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (76.23%) WAN
2 49 (40.16%) Firewall
3 36 (29.51%) SD-WAN
3 36 (29.51%) Wireless
4 30 (24.59%) VPN
5 27 (22.13%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (22.13%) WLAN
6 19 (15.57%) BGP
7 18 (14.75%) OSPF
8 17 (13.93%) Network Security
9 12 (9.84%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (9.02%) DHCP
10 11 (9.02%) MPLS
10 11 (9.02%) VoIP
11 10 (8.20%) DNS
11 10 (8.20%) Internet
11 10 (8.20%) SAN
12 9 (7.38%) TCP/IP
13 8 (6.56%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (6.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.64%) JIRA
1 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.82%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) Gradle
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.93%) Finance
3 11 (9.02%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.02%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Automotive
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Local Government
8 1 (0.82%) Military
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (27.05%) Architect
2 30 (24.59%) Network Engineer
3 18 (14.75%) Network Architect
4 13 (10.66%) Senior
5 12 (9.84%) Technical Architect
6 8 (6.56%) IT Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Consultant
7 7 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 5 (4.10%) Network Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) Middleware
2 5 (4.10%) LDAP
2 5 (4.10%) Web Services
3 2 (1.64%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.64%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.82%) .NET
4 1 (0.82%) J2EE
4 1 (0.82%) JSON
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.82%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.82%) SAML
4 1 (0.82%) XML
4 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.10%) PKI
4 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.28%) NHS
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.64%) IoT
6 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.82%) BYOD
7 1 (0.82%) CCTV
7 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.82%) FMCG
7 1 (0.82%) IVR
7 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.67%) Windows
2 16 (13.11%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.66%) Linux
4 3 (2.46%) Unix
5 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.82%) CentOS
6 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) Solaris
6 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (10.66%) Change Management
3 12 (9.84%) Agile
4 11 (9.02%) IT Strategy
5 10 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (7.38%) Analytics
6 9 (7.38%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (7.38%) Migration
6 9 (7.38%) Roadmaps
7 8 (6.56%) Customer Service
7 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (6.56%) Project Management
7 8 (6.56%) Technology Strategy
8 7 (5.74%) High Availability
8 7 (5.74%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (5.74%) ITIL
8 7 (5.74%) PRINCE2
8 7 (5.74%) Service Management
8 7 (5.74%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.74%) Python
2 5 (4.10%) Bash
3 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.46%) SQL
5 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.82%) Java
6 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (18.85%) CCNP
3 13 (10.66%) CCIE
4 10 (8.20%) CCNA
4 10 (8.20%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.92%) Degree
6 6 (4.92%) JNCIA
7 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.46%) CCIE Data Center
8 3 (2.46%) CCSA
9 2 (1.64%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.64%) CCENT
9 2 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.64%) MCSA
9 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.64%) PMP
9 2 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) SLA
2 9 (7.38%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.82%) COBIT
6 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.82%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (13.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (12.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.28%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.46%) Docker
4 3 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.64%) vSphere
5 2 (1.64%) XenApp
6 1 (0.82%) Firmware
6 1 (0.82%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.82%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) FortiGate
2 5 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.46%) Ansible
3 3 (2.46%) Nessus
3 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (2.46%) Terraform
3 3 (2.46%) TrustSec
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.64%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.64%) VxRail
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.82%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (55.74%) Cisco
2 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
3 22 (18.03%) Palo Alto
4 20 (16.39%) VMware
5 15 (12.30%) F5
6 12 (9.84%) Fortinet
6 12 (9.84%) Juniper
7 9 (7.38%) Aruba
8 7 (5.74%) CheckPoint
9 6 (4.92%) Citrix
10 5 (4.10%) Blue Coat
10 5 (4.10%) Databricks
10 5 (4.10%) Genesys
10 5 (4.10%) Splunk
11 4 (3.28%) Google
11 4 (3.28%) HP
11 4 (3.28%) Infoblox
12 3 (2.46%) Dell
12 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds