WAN Contracts in Scotland

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 107 132 148
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing WAN 15 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 1.36% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.22% 10.45% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 4
10th Percentile £280 £363 £175
25th Percentile £375 £450 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £283
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +76.99% -15.67%
75th Percentile £725 £550 £400
90th Percentile £750 £600 £423
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 241 354 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.18% 13.01% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 220 188
10th Percentile £188 £160 £208
25th Percentile £276 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +1.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 17
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £11.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.59% -74.96% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.55 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.00 £57.50
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Scotland

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +26 9 £700 +33.33% 2
Glasgow +9 6 £400 -8.57% 6
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) iPaaS
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) LAN
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) MPLS
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
4 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.67%) Internet
4 1 (6.67%) IPsec
4 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) ICT Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) J2EE
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) BYOD
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Agile
1 3 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (20.00%) High Availability
1 3 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (20.00%) SOA
1 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Data Strategy
2 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) Observium
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler