LAN Jobs in Birmingham

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 105 122
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -34
Permanent jobs citing LAN 60 25 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.91% 1.39% 2.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.31% 9.29% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 47 24 67
10th Percentile £27,350 £38,375 £31,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £66,375
90th Percentile £60,800 - £73,450
West Midlands median annual salary £40,313 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.88% +3.66%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 392 269 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.49% 14.97% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 298 193 336
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,550 £30,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,238 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,375 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAN in Birmingham.

Salary trend for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in Birmingham

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.33%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 56 (93.33%) WAN
2 33 (55.00%) Firewall
3 16 (26.67%) Network Security
4 14 (23.33%) MPLS
4 14 (23.33%) TCP/IP
4 14 (23.33%) WLAN
5 11 (18.33%) SD-WAN
5 11 (18.33%) VPN
6 9 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (15.00%) VLAN
7 8 (13.33%) VoIP
7 8 (13.33%) Wireless
8 7 (11.67%) BGP
8 7 (11.67%) OSPF
8 7 (11.67%) SAN
9 6 (10.00%) DNS
10 5 (8.33%) DHCP
11 3 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (3.33%) IPsec
12 2 (3.33%) WAAS
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Law
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Senior
2 13 (21.67%) Network Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Administrator
4 9 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (13.33%) IT Administrator
5 8 (13.33%) IT Systems Administrator
5 8 (13.33%) Network Manager
6 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) IT Technician
7 5 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) ICT Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Wiki
2 7 (11.67%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.33%) IoT
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) CCTV
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.67%) Windows 7
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.33%) Linux
5 2 (3.33%) SUSE
5 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.33%) Patch Management
3 10 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.33%) Network Management
6 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (6.67%) CRM
7 4 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.67%) ITIL
7 4 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) Perl
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (15.00%) Python
2 5 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (18.33%) CCNP
3 8 (13.33%) CCNA
3 8 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.67%) JNCIA
5 2 (3.33%) CCDA
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) Cisco
2 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
3 17 (28.33%) Juniper
4 12 (20.00%) Aruba
5 9 (15.00%) VMware
6 8 (13.33%) CheckPoint
7 7 (11.67%) Citrix
7 7 (11.67%) Nokia
7 7 (11.67%) Veeam
8 6 (10.00%) Ericsson
8 6 (10.00%) Meraki
9 5 (8.33%) HP
9 5 (8.33%) Sophos
10 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
11 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
12 2 (3.33%) Avaya
12 2 (3.33%) F5
12 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
12 2 (3.33%) Snow
13 1 (1.67%) Adobe