Local Area Network (LAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 219 269
Rank change year-on-year +58 +50 -62
Permanent jobs citing LAN 1,819 1,707 2,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 1.68% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.46% 10.82% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 1,299 1,856
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,650 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £61,563
90th Percentile £71,100 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

LAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for LAN in the UK

LAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAN over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAN in the UK

LAN
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 1,677 £45,000 - 339
UK excluding London +28 1,294 £42,500 +2.41% 256
Work from Home +62 627 £50,000 - 118
London +89 461 £55,000 - 99
North of England +38 385 £40,000 -11.11% 83
Midlands +45 251 £42,000 +6.05% 49
South East -1 248 £42,500 +6.25% 52
North West +28 206 £42,500 -5.56% 54
West Midlands +70 204 £40,313 -4.30% 34
South West +58 202 £45,000 +5.88% 25
Yorkshire +77 153 £42,500 -5.56% 23
East of England +34 138 £42,500 +11.84% 33
Scotland -84 43 £35,000 -6.04% 11
East Midlands -37 38 £45,000 +21.27% 15
North East -18 37 £37,750 -11.18% 6
Wales +18 36 £40,500 -10.00% 8
Northern Ireland +12 7 £37,500 -11.76% 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - -

LAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 226 (12.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (10.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.93%) IIS
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint 2010
4 16 (0.88%) SharePoint 2013
5 10 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
6 9 (0.49%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) Apache
10 4 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.16%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) Moodle
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.055%) CMS
13 1 (0.055%) Confluence
Applications
1 211 (11.60%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) Revit
5 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.22%) Epicor Tropos
4 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.055%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 686 (37.71%) Azure
2 673 (37.00%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (11.21%) Entra ID
4 189 (10.39%) AWS
5 64 (3.52%) OneDrive
6 61 (3.35%) IaaS
7 60 (3.30%) SaaS
8 49 (2.69%) PaaS
9 48 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
10 46 (2.53%) GCP
11 32 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.43%) Power Platform
13 23 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.04%) Mimecast
16 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 13 (0.71%) Google Workspace
17 13 (0.71%) Rubrik
18 12 (0.66%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 1,527 (83.95%) WAN
2 760 (41.78%) Firewall
3 465 (25.56%) VPN
4 432 (23.75%) Wi-Fi
5 382 (21.00%) Wireless
6 367 (20.18%) DNS
7 347 (19.08%) TCP/IP
8 330 (18.14%) DHCP
9 244 (13.41%) SD-WAN
10 243 (13.36%) Network Security
11 240 (13.19%) WLAN
12 216 (11.87%) MPLS
13 192 (10.56%) VLAN
14 177 (9.73%) Internet
15 168 (9.24%) BGP
16 159 (8.74%) OSPF
17 124 (6.82%) SAN
18 121 (6.65%) VoIP
19 68 (3.74%) IPsec
20 65 (3.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 17 (0.93%) MySQL
3 15 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.77%) Power BI
5 10 (0.55%) DB2
6 7 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.22%) QlikView
10 3 (0.16%) Big Data
10 3 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.16%) EDRMS
10 3 (0.16%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.16%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.11%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.055%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 14 (0.77%) JIRA
2 8 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.38%) Git
4 4 (0.22%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.055%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 540 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 181 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (9.29%) Finance
4 111 (6.10%) Retail
4 111 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 85 (4.67%) Law
6 70 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 50 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 46 (2.53%) Legal
11 39 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (0.99%) Banking
13 18 (0.99%) Local Government
13 18 (0.99%) Police
14 14 (0.77%) Marketing
15 13 (0.71%) Advertising
16 12 (0.66%) Games
17 11 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 401 (22.05%) Network Engineer
2 264 (14.51%) Analyst
3 246 (13.52%) Senior
4 233 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 168 (9.24%) Support Engineer
6 155 (8.52%) IT Support
7 122 (6.71%) IT Engineer
8 93 (5.11%) Senior Network Engineer
9 89 (4.89%) Architect
10 84 (4.62%) Network Analyst
11 78 (4.29%) IT Analyst
12 72 (3.96%) 2nd Line Support
13 63 (3.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 63 (3.46%) Lead
14 62 (3.41%) IT Manager
14 62 (3.41%) Service Analyst
15 61 (3.35%) Consultant
15 61 (3.35%) Support Analyst
16 60 (3.30%) Service Desk Analyst
17 58 (3.19%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.65%) 802.1X
2 23 (1.26%) LDAP
3 10 (0.55%) SAML
4 8 (0.44%) .NET
4 8 (0.44%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (0.44%) XML
5 7 (0.38%) EDI
5 7 (0.38%) HTML
6 5 (0.27%) XMPP
7 4 (0.22%) Akka
7 4 (0.22%) Web Services
8 3 (0.16%) Middleware
9 2 (0.11%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.11%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.11%) LAMP
9 2 (0.11%) Node.js
9 2 (0.11%) React
9 2 (0.11%) RESTful
9 2 (0.11%) ServiceStack
9 2 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 283 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 123 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.95%) Driving Licence
4 61 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 53 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.75%) PKI
7 49 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.98%) CCTV
9 30 (1.65%) Cyberattack
10 29 (1.59%) Client/Server
10 29 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 26 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 25 (1.37%) IoT
13 22 (1.21%) NHS
14 17 (0.93%) Replication
14 17 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (0.88%) Clustering
15 16 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 16 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (0.82%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 787 (43.27%) Windows
2 385 (21.17%) Windows Server
3 186 (10.23%) Linux
4 178 (9.79%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.51%) Android
6 75 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 73 (4.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 64 (3.52%) Mac OS
9 57 (3.13%) Apple iOS
10 54 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 51 (2.80%) Ubuntu
12 46 (2.53%) VMS
13 42 (2.31%) Windows 7
14 27 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 23 (1.26%) CentOS
16 18 (0.99%) VyOS
17 15 (0.82%) Mac OS X
17 15 (0.82%) Unix
17 15 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
18 7 (0.38%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (18.69%) ITIL
2 330 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
3 327 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 270 (14.84%) Customer Service
5 191 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
6 136 (7.48%) Roadmaps
7 133 (7.31%) Agile
8 127 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 110 (6.05%) Project Management
10 109 (5.99%) Service Delivery
11 105 (5.77%) Project Delivery
12 103 (5.66%) Migration
13 102 (5.61%) Mentoring
14 92 (5.06%) Information Security
15 86 (4.73%) Change Management
16 85 (4.67%) Presales
17 82 (4.51%) Service Management
18 79 (4.34%) Stakeholder Management
19 74 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
20 73 (4.01%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 184 (10.12%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.32%) SQL
3 87 (4.78%) Python
4 50 (2.75%) Bash
5 18 (0.99%) Perl
6 6 (0.33%) C#
6 6 (0.33%) Java
7 3 (0.16%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.11%) Bicep
8 2 (0.11%) Korn
8 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.11%) PHP
9 1 (0.055%) VBA
Qualifications
1 341 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 254 (13.96%) Degree
3 226 (12.42%) CCNA
4 183 (10.06%) Security Cleared
5 169 (9.29%) CCNP
6 89 (4.89%) SC Cleared
7 84 (4.62%) DV Cleared
8 81 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 77 (4.23%) CCIE
10 53 (2.91%) CISSP
11 50 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (2.58%) CCDP
13 44 (2.42%) DBS Check
14 41 (2.25%) JNCIA
15 38 (2.09%) MCSE
16 34 (1.87%) Azure Certification
17 31 (1.70%) A+ Certification
18 28 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
19 25 (1.37%) AWS Certification
20 22 (1.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.88%) SLA
2 62 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.26%) NIST
6 19 (1.04%) GDPR
7 16 (0.88%) QA
8 15 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.27%) IASME
10 5 (0.27%) NCSC
10 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.11%) ITGC
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.055%) COBIT
13 1 (0.055%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 705 (38.76%) Active Directory
2 327 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 222 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 76 (4.18%) vSphere
5 60 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 24 (1.32%) Firmware
9 18 (0.99%) XenApp
10 15 (0.82%) XenDesktop
11 11 (0.60%) Docker
12 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.33%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.22%) NFS
14 4 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 189 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 85 (4.67%) SCCM
3 68 (3.74%) Ansible
4 63 (3.46%) Terraform
5 49 (2.69%) WSUS
6 34 (1.87%) FortiGate
7 25 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.82%) Nmap
9 15 (0.82%) Puppet
10 14 (0.77%) Autotask
11 13 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.66%) SmoothWall
13 11 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.44%) McAfee ePO
15 8 (0.44%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.38%) Backup Exec
16 7 (0.38%) Nagios
16 7 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 788 (43.32%) Microsoft
2 609 (33.48%) Cisco
3 475 (26.11%) VMware
4 178 (9.79%) Juniper
5 167 (9.18%) Fortinet
5 167 (9.18%) Meraki
6 123 (6.76%) Aruba
7 118 (6.49%) HP
8 106 (5.83%) Palo Alto
9 99 (5.44%) Citrix
10 85 (4.67%) Veeam
11 75 (4.12%) SolarWinds
12 70 (3.85%) CheckPoint
13 59 (3.24%) Dell
14 57 (3.13%) Google
15 56 (3.08%) Ruckus Wireless
16 46 (2.53%) Apple
17 39 (2.14%) Nokia
18 29 (1.59%) F5
18 29 (1.59%) Sophos