WAN Contracts in England

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 126 176
Rank change year-on-year +14 +50 -1
Contract jobs citing WAN 725 973 1,138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.99% 2.02% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.14% 16.46% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 596 746
10th Percentile £254 £250 £213
25th Percentile £350 £325 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £650 £584 £550
90th Percentile £724 £681 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 33 47
10th Percentile £13.78 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.86 £21.22 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £48.67
90th Percentile £75.24 £83.20 £58.39
UK median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -58.86% +71.43% +75.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

WAN 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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,788 5,911 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.24% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,859 5,152
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -2.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in England

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in England.

Daily rate trend for WAN in England

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in England

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in England.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in England

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WAN in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in England

WAN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +9 216 £500 -5.66% 111
South East +3 164 £425 -5.56% 55
Midlands +25 148 £375 +7.07% 57
West Midlands +24 139 £375 +7.14% 41
South West +20 93 £650 +33.33% 31
North of England -26 69 £413 +10.00% 88
Yorkshire +38 37 £500 +60.00% 27
North West -42 30 £350 -17.65% 55
East of England -12 18 £525 +55.56% 30
East Midlands -2 8 £700 +118.75% 16
North East +9 2 £400 +153.97% 6
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.14%) RMDS
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (13.79%) Azure
2 58 (8.00%) AWS
2 58 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
4 35 (4.83%) IaaS
5 34 (4.69%) SaaS
6 33 (4.55%) PaaS
7 23 (3.17%) GCP
8 11 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 6 (0.83%) OneDrive
10 5 (0.69%) Cloudflare
11 4 (0.55%) GitHub
11 4 (0.55%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.41%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.41%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.41%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.28%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (0.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 472 (65.10%) LAN
2 232 (32.00%) Firewall
3 206 (28.41%) VPN
4 182 (25.10%) MPLS
5 171 (23.59%) BGP
6 146 (20.14%) SD-WAN
7 114 (15.72%) Wi-Fi
8 102 (14.07%) Wireless
9 100 (13.79%) IPsec
10 92 (12.69%) DNS
11 80 (11.03%) OSPF
12 74 (10.21%) DHCP
13 62 (8.55%) Network Security
14 58 (8.00%) Junos
15 53 (7.31%) WLAN
16 42 (5.79%) Cisco Nexus
16 42 (5.79%) VoIP
17 41 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
18 39 (5.38%) Cisco Firepower
19 38 (5.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.28%) MySQL
3 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (0.69%) JIRA
4 2 (0.28%) Git
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) Katalon Studio
General
1 167 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.34%) Public Sector
3 96 (13.24%) Finance
4 56 (7.72%) Telecoms
5 51 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.07%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.93%) Banking
9 11 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
10 9 (1.24%) Legal
10 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.24%) Military
11 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.97%) Aeronautics
12 7 (0.97%) Back Office
13 6 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (28.55%) Network Engineer
2 192 (26.48%) Architect
3 146 (20.14%) Network Architect
4 54 (7.45%) WAN Engineer
5 53 (7.31%) Senior
6 49 (6.76%) Support Engineer
7 41 (5.66%) Network Support
8 37 (5.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 34 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support
11 31 (4.28%) 3rd Line Support
12 29 (4.00%) Analyst
12 29 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
13 26 (3.59%) Lead
14 25 (3.45%) Consultant
15 21 (2.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Cisco Engineer
15 21 (2.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 20 (2.76%) IT Engineer
17 18 (2.48%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.24%) Web Services
2 7 (0.97%) Middleware
3 6 (0.83%) LDAP
4 5 (0.69%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.69%) JSON
5 4 (0.55%) EDI
5 4 (0.55%) XML
6 3 (0.41%) XMPP
7 2 (0.28%) Jinja
7 2 (0.28%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.28%) RESTful
7 2 (0.28%) XSLT
7 2 (0.28%) YANG
8 1 (0.14%) .NET
8 1 (0.14%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.14%) HTML
8 1 (0.14%) Kafka
8 1 (0.14%) LAMP
8 1 (0.14%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.14%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 119 (16.41%) Data Centre
2 92 (12.69%) PKI
3 25 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
4 21 (2.90%) Clustering
4 21 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.62%) Driving Licence
6 17 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.21%) NHS
8 15 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.38%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.10%) CCTV
12 8 (1.10%) CMDB
13 5 (0.69%) Replication
13 5 (0.69%) SCADA
14 4 (0.55%) AS400
14 4 (0.55%) iPhone
14 4 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 147 (20.28%) Windows
2 64 (8.83%) Windows Server
3 57 (7.86%) Linux
4 28 (3.86%) Windows 10
5 22 (3.03%) Mac OS
6 16 (2.21%) Unix
7 13 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.10%) Android
9 8 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.55%) CentOS
13 3 (0.41%) Debian
13 3 (0.41%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.28%) zOS
15 1 (0.14%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (11.72%) ITIL
3 83 (11.45%) Network Design
4 79 (10.90%) Network Management
5 71 (9.79%) Load Balancing
6 62 (8.55%) Migration
7 55 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 52 (7.17%) Project Management
9 51 (7.03%) Change Management
10 48 (6.62%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (6.62%) Network Architecture
11 47 (6.48%) Customer Service
11 47 (6.48%) Project Delivery
12 45 (6.21%) Customer Requirements
13 41 (5.66%) Business Strategy
14 39 (5.38%) Zero Trust
15 36 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (4.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (4.55%) Agile
18 31 (4.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (5.38%) PowerShell
2 21 (2.90%) Python
3 14 (1.93%) SQL
4 6 (0.83%) Bash
5 5 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.55%) Java
7 2 (0.28%) Perl
8 1 (0.14%) Bicep
8 1 (0.14%) C
8 1 (0.14%) C#
8 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 308 (42.48%) Security Cleared
2 138 (19.03%) Cisco Certification
3 125 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 87 (12.00%) CCNP
5 84 (11.59%) DV Cleared
6 83 (11.45%) Degree
7 74 (10.21%) CCNA
8 31 (4.28%) CCIE
9 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.93%) JNCIA
11 9 (1.24%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (1.10%) HND
12 8 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (0.97%) BC Cleared
13 7 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.83%) JNCIS
15 5 (0.69%) CCDP
15 5 (0.69%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.52%) SLA
2 20 (2.76%) QA
3 19 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.38%) ISO 9000
4 10 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (0.97%) NCSC
6 4 (0.55%) GDPR
7 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) COBIT
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 89 (12.28%) Active Directory
2 77 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.31%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.38%) Firmware
7 10 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (0.97%) vSphere
10 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.55%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.41%) XenApp
13 1 (0.14%) Ceph
13 1 (0.14%) Docker
13 1 (0.14%) iptables
13 1 (0.14%) NFS
13 1 (0.14%) Samba
13 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 36 (4.97%) SCCM
2 27 (3.72%) FortiGate
3 26 (3.59%) Endace
4 16 (2.21%) Terraform
5 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (1.79%) Ansible
7 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.24%) Kubernetes
9 8 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.10%) Nagios
9 8 (1.10%) NetBackup
9 8 (1.10%) SCOM
10 6 (0.83%) Autotask
10 6 (0.83%) VxRail
11 5 (0.69%) Nessus
11 5 (0.69%) OpenView
12 3 (0.41%) AppManager
12 3 (0.41%) OPNET
Vendors
1 351 (48.41%) Cisco
2 204 (28.14%) Juniper
3 106 (14.62%) Microsoft
4 100 (13.79%) VMware
5 90 (12.41%) Palo Alto
6 76 (10.48%) F5
7 57 (7.86%) Fortinet
8 48 (6.62%) CheckPoint
9 41 (5.66%) Aruba
10 40 (5.52%) Meraki
11 27 (3.72%) Citrix
12 21 (2.90%) Zscaler
13 20 (2.76%) SolarWinds
14 19 (2.62%) HP
15 16 (2.21%) Infoblox
16 13 (1.79%) ServiceNow
17 12 (1.66%) Dell
17 12 (1.66%) Google
18 11 (1.52%) Nokia
18 11 (1.52%) SAP