WAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 76 82 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +6
Contract jobs citing WAN 507 668 713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.50% 2.90% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.50% 19.25% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 421 466
10th Percentile £263 £263 £200
25th Percentile £350 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £538 £519
90th Percentile £700 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 28 41
10th Percentile £13.55 £17.45 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.60 £21.15 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.87 £57.33 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.62% +154.80% +13.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £69.56 £50.77
90th Percentile £75.24 £89.00 £56.70
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,271 3,471 4,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.05% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,184 2,631
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 313 243
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.23 £59.75
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the UK excluding London 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
South East +3 164 £425 -5.56% 56
Midlands +25 148 £375 +7.07% 56
West Midlands +24 139 £375 +7.14% 41
South West +20 93 £650 +33.33% 30
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
Scotland +25 15 £550 +10.00% 17
East Midlands -2 8 £700 +118.75% 15
North East +9 2 £400 +153.97% 6
Wales +1 2 £263 -22.22% 8
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.20%) RMDS
2 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.26%) Azure
2 38 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (6.31%) IaaS
3 32 (6.31%) PaaS
4 31 (6.11%) SaaS
5 30 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
6 22 (4.34%) AWS
7 5 (0.99%) Entra ID
7 5 (0.99%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.59%) GCP
8 3 (0.59%) GitHub
8 3 (0.59%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.39%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.39%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.20%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.20%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 328 (64.69%) LAN
2 146 (28.80%) MPLS
3 139 (27.42%) VPN
4 119 (23.47%) Firewall
5 114 (22.49%) BGP
6 89 (17.55%) Wi-Fi
7 78 (15.38%) IPsec
8 70 (13.81%) SD-WAN
9 58 (11.44%) Junos
10 55 (10.85%) DNS
11 49 (9.66%) Wireless
12 42 (8.28%) DHCP
13 35 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
14 31 (6.11%) WLAN
15 30 (5.92%) Network Security
16 27 (5.33%) SSL
17 25 (4.93%) SAN
18 24 (4.73%) OSPF
19 23 (4.54%) Ethernet
19 23 (4.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (0.99%) JIRA
3 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.20%) Hudson
General
1 106 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 52 (10.26%) Finance
4 45 (8.88%) Telecoms
5 30 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.96%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.38%) Aeronautics
8 7 (1.38%) Back Office
8 7 (1.38%) Legal
8 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.38%) Military
8 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (0.99%) Retail
10 4 (0.79%) Marketing
11 3 (0.59%) Automotive
11 3 (0.59%) Electronics
11 3 (0.59%) Local Government
11 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 174 (34.32%) Architect
2 132 (26.04%) Network Architect
3 131 (25.84%) Network Engineer
4 47 (9.27%) WAN Engineer
5 40 (7.89%) Network Support
6 36 (7.10%) Senior
7 33 (6.51%) Support Engineer
8 31 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 28 (5.52%) 3rd Line Support
10 26 (5.13%) 2nd Line Support
11 23 (4.54%) Analyst
12 22 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.94%) Senior Network Engineer
14 18 (3.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 17 (3.35%) Technical Architect
16 16 (3.16%) Lead
16 16 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (2.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 13 (2.56%) Project Manager
18 11 (2.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.37%) Web Services
2 8 (1.58%) Middleware
3 3 (0.59%) .NET
3 3 (0.59%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.59%) EDI
3 3 (0.59%) J2EE
3 3 (0.59%) XMPP
4 2 (0.39%) XML
4 2 (0.39%) XSLT
5 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 90 (17.75%) Data Centre
2 63 (12.43%) PKI
3 17 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.16%) Clustering
5 15 (2.96%) Operational Technology
6 14 (2.76%) Driving Licence
6 14 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.56%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.78%) NHS
10 8 (1.58%) CMDB
11 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.99%) SCADA
11 5 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (0.79%) AS400
12 4 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.79%) Replication
13 3 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.59%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 107 (21.10%) Windows
2 51 (10.06%) Linux
3 40 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.55%) Windows 10
5 15 (2.96%) Unix
6 11 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (1.38%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.79%) CentOS
10 3 (0.59%) Android
10 3 (0.59%) Debian
11 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.39%) zOS
12 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (14.79%) Network Management
2 67 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (12.82%) Network Design
4 62 (12.23%) Load Balancing
5 50 (9.86%) ITIL
6 44 (8.68%) Customer Requirements
7 42 (8.28%) Business Strategy
8 40 (7.89%) Project Delivery
9 37 (7.30%) Technical Leadership
10 36 (7.10%) Migration
11 35 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 35 (6.90%) Zero Trust
12 33 (6.51%) Project Management
13 28 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (5.33%) Open Source
15 26 (5.13%) Decision-Making
15 26 (5.13%) Network Architecture
16 25 (4.93%) Data Protection
17 24 (4.73%) Customer Service
18 23 (4.54%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.93%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.18%) SQL
3 5 (0.99%) Bash
3 5 (0.99%) Python
4 3 (0.59%) Java
5 1 (0.20%) Bicep
5 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 275 (54.24%) Security Cleared
2 104 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 79 (15.58%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (14.60%) DV Cleared
5 53 (10.45%) Degree
6 49 (9.66%) CCNA
7 46 (9.07%) CCNP
8 13 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.56%) CCIE
8 13 (2.56%) JNCIA
9 9 (1.78%) CCIE Data Center
10 8 (1.58%) HND
10 8 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (1.18%) BC Cleared
11 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.99%) CCSA
12 5 (0.99%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.59%) ECDL
14 3 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.73%) SLA
2 17 (3.35%) QA
3 10 (1.97%) ISO 9000
4 5 (0.99%) NCSC
5 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.39%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) COBIT
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 64 (12.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (12.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.94%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.94%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.58%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.99%) vSphere
8 4 (0.79%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.59%) XenApp
10 2 (0.39%) Firmware
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Docker
11 1 (0.20%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 31 (6.11%) SCCM
2 26 (5.13%) Endace
3 12 (2.37%) FortiGate
4 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (1.97%) vCenter Server
6 8 (1.58%) Nagios
6 8 (1.58%) NetBackup
7 7 (1.38%) SCOM
8 6 (1.18%) Autotask
8 6 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.99%) OpenView
9 5 (0.99%) Terraform
9 5 (0.99%) VxRail
10 3 (0.59%) AppManager
10 3 (0.59%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.59%) Nessus
11 2 (0.39%) Ansible
11 2 (0.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 228 (44.97%) Cisco
2 177 (34.91%) Juniper
3 80 (15.78%) VMware
4 60 (11.83%) Microsoft
5 44 (8.68%) F5
5 44 (8.68%) Palo Alto
6 28 (5.52%) CheckPoint
7 26 (5.13%) Aruba
8 25 (4.93%) Fortinet
9 24 (4.73%) Meraki
10 19 (3.75%) Citrix
11 12 (2.37%) SolarWinds
11 12 (2.37%) Zscaler
12 11 (2.17%) 3Com
12 11 (2.17%) Brocade
12 11 (2.17%) HP
13 10 (1.97%) NetApp
13 10 (1.97%) Nokia
13 10 (1.97%) SAP
14 9 (1.78%) Apple