WAN Contracts in Leeds

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +31 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing WAN 14 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.77% 0.54% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.90% 8.86% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile £290 £264 £246
25th Percentile £313 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £506
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.93% +26.56%
75th Percentile £538 £431 £556
90th Percentile £620 £475 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £363 £450
% change year-on-year +17.16% -19.39% +44.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 79 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.48% 6.10% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 88
10th Percentile £286 £319 £239
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.70% +12.19%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £595
90th Percentile £646 - £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.87 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £16.07 - -
90th Percentile £17.39 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% -14.99%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wireless
3 1 (7.14%) Broadband
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) PSTN
3 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XML
1 2 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (21.43%) Unix
5 2 (14.29%) Debian
5 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
5 2 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Logistics
3 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Network Design
3 2 (14.29%) Network Management
3 2 (14.29%) Parallel Processing
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) SOA
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNA
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCENT
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) MCSA
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) Aruba
2 2 (14.29%) Juniper
2 2 (14.29%) Meraki
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Zscaler
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Forcepoint