WAN Contracts in the City of London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 127 128
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 -25
Contract jobs citing WAN 29 46 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.32% 1.26% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.62% 12.57% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 46
10th Percentile £129 £258 £409
25th Percentile £438 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +7.26% -1.63%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £638
90th Percentile £729 £803 £700
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -13.64% +9.89% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.58
25th Percentile - - £39.06
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £43.56
90th Percentile - - £44.13
Central London median hourly rate - - £41.25

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 213 366 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.67% 10.06% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 250 323
10th Percentile £215 £248 £313
25th Percentile £350 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £615
90th Percentile £773 £758 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) LAN
2 13 (44.83%) SD-WAN
3 10 (34.48%) Firewall
4 8 (27.59%) WLAN
5 7 (24.14%) Wireless
6 3 (10.34%) BGP
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (10.34%) IPsec
6 3 (10.34%) OSPF
6 3 (10.34%) Unified Communications
6 3 (10.34%) VPN
6 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (3.45%) DNS
7 1 (3.45%) MPLS
7 1 (3.45%) Multicast
7 1 (3.45%) Network Security
7 1 (3.45%) SAN
7 1 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
1 6 (20.69%) Consultant
1 6 (20.69%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Network Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Security Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Network Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Technician
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support
4 2 (6.90%) IT Technician
4 2 (6.90%) Junior
4 2 (6.90%) Junior IT Support
4 2 (6.90%) Junior IT Technician
4 2 (6.90%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Network Design Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) Kafka
1 1 (3.45%) LDAP
1 1 (3.45%) Middleware
1 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) iPhone
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) IVR
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
2 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Asset Management
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
4 3 (10.34%) Data Encryption
4 3 (10.34%) Database Security
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) IT Strategy
4 3 (10.34%) Key Management
4 3 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (10.34%) Security Auditing
4 3 (10.34%) SIEM
4 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (3.45%) Perl
2 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) CCIE
4 1 (3.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) FortiGate
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Juniper
3 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) Aruba
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) BT
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) Genesys
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Kenna
5 1 (3.45%) Riverbed
5 1 (3.45%) Terracotta
5 1 (3.45%) VMware