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 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 105 140 180
Rank change year-on-year +35 +40 -3
Contract jobs citing WAN 788 982 1,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.13% 1.94% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.75% 15.91% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 622 748
10th Percentile £263 £250 £212
25th Percentile £353 £340 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +5.11% +3.53%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £540
90th Percentile £738 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 33 46
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.59 £22.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +35.06%
75th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £47.06
90th Percentile £75.24 £83.20 £51.11
UK median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +33.33%

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 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in England

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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 27 April 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 +12 230 £500 - 109
South East +3 166 £450 - 77
Midlands +29 165 £375 +5.19% 72
West Midlands +35 154 £375 +6.99% 52
South West +29 108 £650 +33.33% 33
North of England +1 81 £475 +26.67% 74
North West -27 42 £463 +8.82% 51
Yorkshire +39 37 £505 +68.33% 18
East of England -5 21 £525 +52.17% 38
East Midlands 0 9 £630 +96.88% 19
North East +15 2 £400 -15.79% 5
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 31 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.63%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.38%) nginx
5 2 (0.25%) Confluence
5 2 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 39 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.13%) RMDS
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (13.45%) Azure
2 68 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (8.25%) AWS
4 42 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (4.57%) IaaS
6 34 (4.31%) SaaS
7 33 (4.19%) PaaS
8 24 (3.05%) GCP
9 14 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.89%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.63%) Cloudflare
11 5 (0.63%) Mimecast
11 5 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.38%) GitHub
12 3 (0.38%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.38%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 525 (66.62%) LAN
2 257 (32.61%) Firewall
3 232 (29.44%) VPN
4 201 (25.51%) BGP
5 191 (24.24%) MPLS
6 153 (19.42%) SD-WAN
7 123 (15.61%) Wireless
8 122 (15.48%) IPsec
9 119 (15.10%) Wi-Fi
10 103 (13.07%) DNS
11 97 (12.31%) OSPF
12 81 (10.28%) DHCP
13 79 (10.03%) Network Security
14 65 (8.25%) WLAN
15 60 (7.61%) Junos
16 53 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
16 53 (6.73%) VoIP
17 46 (5.84%) Cisco Nexus
18 43 (5.46%) TCP/IP
19 41 (5.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.63%) MySQL
3 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.51%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) Git
5 1 (0.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
General
1 170 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 121 (15.36%) Public Sector
3 99 (12.56%) Finance
4 61 (7.74%) Telecoms
5 57 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.78%) Mandarin Language
9 13 (1.65%) Banking
9 13 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.14%) Legal
12 8 (1.02%) Marketing
12 8 (1.02%) Military
13 7 (0.89%) Aeronautics
13 7 (0.89%) Back Office
13 7 (0.89%) Electronics
13 7 (0.89%) Local Government
14 6 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 225 (28.55%) Network Engineer
2 211 (26.78%) Architect
3 153 (19.42%) Network Architect
4 68 (8.63%) WAN Engineer
5 57 (7.23%) Senior
6 48 (6.09%) Support Engineer
7 44 (5.58%) Network Support
8 37 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
9 36 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 32 (4.06%) Senior Network Engineer
12 30 (3.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 28 (3.55%) 3rd Line Support
14 26 (3.30%) Cisco Engineer
14 26 (3.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 25 (3.17%) Analyst
15 25 (3.17%) Lead
16 22 (2.79%) Consultant
17 21 (2.66%) IT Engineer
17 21 (2.66%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.40%) LDAP
2 9 (1.14%) Web Services
3 8 (1.02%) Middleware
4 6 (0.76%) EDI
5 5 (0.63%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.63%) JSON
6 4 (0.51%) XML
7 3 (0.38%) XMPP
8 2 (0.25%) HTML
8 2 (0.25%) Jinja
8 2 (0.25%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.25%) RESTful
8 2 (0.25%) XSLT
8 2 (0.25%) YANG
9 1 (0.13%) .NET
9 1 (0.13%) Kafka
9 1 (0.13%) LAMP
9 1 (0.13%) LAPP Stack
9 1 (0.13%) libvirt
9 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (17.01%) Data Centre
2 112 (14.21%) PKI
3 40 (5.08%) Video Conferencing
4 27 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.66%) Clustering
6 20 (2.54%) Driving Licence
6 20 (2.54%) NHS
7 18 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.78%) CCTV
8 14 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) CMDB
13 5 (0.63%) Replication
13 5 (0.63%) SCADA
13 5 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.51%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 158 (20.05%) Windows
2 70 (8.88%) Windows Server
3 58 (7.36%) Linux
4 29 (3.68%) Windows 10
5 26 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 17 (2.16%) Unix
7 15 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.27%) Android
10 9 (1.14%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.38%) CentOS
12 3 (0.38%) Debian
13 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (11.68%) ITIL
3 85 (10.79%) Network Design
4 78 (9.90%) Network Management
5 75 (9.52%) Migration
6 72 (9.14%) Load Balancing
7 64 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (7.11%) Change Management
9 52 (6.60%) Network Architecture
9 52 (6.60%) Project Management
10 50 (6.35%) Project Delivery
11 49 (6.22%) Customer Service
11 49 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (5.46%) Customer Requirements
12 43 (5.46%) Technical Leadership
13 42 (5.33%) Business Strategy
13 42 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (5.20%) Agile
15 39 (4.95%) Zero Trust
16 31 (3.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (4.70%) PowerShell
2 23 (2.92%) Python
3 16 (2.03%) SQL
4 5 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (0.51%) Java
6 3 (0.38%) Bash
7 2 (0.25%) C#
7 2 (0.25%) Perl
8 1 (0.13%) C
8 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 348 (44.16%) Security Cleared
2 161 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 139 (17.64%) Cisco Certification
4 95 (12.06%) Degree
5 88 (11.17%) CCNP
6 82 (10.41%) DV Cleared
7 75 (9.52%) CCNA
8 31 (3.93%) CCIE
9 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.03%) JNCIA
11 9 (1.14%) CCIE Data Center
11 9 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (1.02%) BC Cleared
12 8 (1.02%) HND
12 8 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (0.76%) CCDP
13 6 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.76%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.33%) SLA
2 23 (2.92%) QA
3 18 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.27%) ISO 9000
4 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (1.02%) NCSC
6 4 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) COBIT
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 101 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 77 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
5 18 (2.28%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.27%) Firmware
7 10 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.63%) vSphere
10 4 (0.51%) XenApp
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) iptables
12 1 (0.13%) NFS
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (5.08%) SCCM
2 35 (4.44%) FortiGate
3 24 (3.05%) Endace
4 20 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.16%) Terraform
6 15 (1.90%) Ansible
7 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.14%) Kubernetes
9 8 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.02%) Nagios
9 8 (1.02%) NetBackup
9 8 (1.02%) SCOM
10 7 (0.89%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.76%) Autotask
11 6 (0.76%) VxRail
12 5 (0.63%) Nessus
12 5 (0.63%) OpenView
13 3 (0.38%) AppManager
13 3 (0.38%) OPNET
Vendors
1 379 (48.10%) Cisco
2 225 (28.55%) Juniper
3 110 (13.96%) Microsoft
4 103 (13.07%) Palo Alto
5 100 (12.69%) VMware
6 72 (9.14%) F5
7 59 (7.49%) Fortinet
8 50 (6.35%) CheckPoint
9 41 (5.20%) Aruba
9 41 (5.20%) Meraki
10 29 (3.68%) Citrix
11 26 (3.30%) SolarWinds
12 23 (2.92%) HP
13 21 (2.66%) Zscaler
14 17 (2.16%) Infoblox
15 15 (1.90%) SAP
16 12 (1.52%) Nokia
16 12 (1.52%) ServiceNow
16 12 (1.52%) Splunk
17 11 (1.40%) Extreme Networks