WAN Contracts in London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 186 198 263
Rank change year-on-year +12 +65 -32
Contract jobs citing WAN 230 355 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.30% 1.31% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.43% 13.28% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 207 261
10th Percentile £228 £246 £225
25th Percentile £351 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £644 £646 £580
90th Percentile £775 £780 £700
England median daily rate £500 £463 £440
% change year-on-year +8.11% +5.11% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £29.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £42.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £20.25 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.85% +51.16% -14.00%
75th Percentile £24.00 - £47.48
90th Percentile £24.45 - £48.58
England median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +35.06%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,674 3,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.88% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,889 2,582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 52 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for WAN in London

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in London

WAN
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +20 33 £475 -13.64% 15
East London +2 8 £563 +122.77% 3
West London +17 5 £280 -6.67% 4
South London +7 2 £450 +69.81% 2
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.87%) Azure
2 35 (15.22%) AWS
3 21 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.96%) GCP
5 11 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.61%) IaaS
8 5 (2.17%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.30%) PaaS
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.87%) Route 53
11 2 (0.87%) SaaS
12 1 (0.43%) GitHub
12 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 164 (71.30%) LAN
2 122 (53.04%) Firewall
3 84 (36.52%) VPN
4 71 (30.87%) BGP
5 70 (30.43%) OSPF
6 69 (30.00%) SD-WAN
7 61 (26.52%) Wireless
8 41 (17.83%) DNS
9 37 (16.09%) Network Security
10 36 (15.65%) DHCP
11 34 (14.78%) MPLS
11 34 (14.78%) WLAN
12 31 (13.48%) IPsec
13 30 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (12.61%) Cisco ASA
15 24 (10.43%) VLAN
16 23 (10.00%) TCP/IP
17 20 (8.70%) EIGRP
18 19 (8.26%) VoIP
19 18 (7.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.87%) MySQL
2 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
General
1 57 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.00%) Finance
3 30 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.09%) Mandarin Language
6 13 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.22%) Banking
8 7 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Front Office
11 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Aviation
12 2 (0.87%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (32.17%) Network Engineer
2 21 (9.13%) Network Specialist
2 21 (9.13%) Senior
3 18 (7.83%) Architect
4 15 (6.52%) Support Engineer
5 14 (6.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 14 (6.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 13 (5.65%) Consultant
6 13 (5.65%) IT Engineer
7 11 (4.78%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.35%) Network Architect
8 10 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 9 (3.91%) Lead
9 9 (3.91%) Security Consultant
9 9 (3.91%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (3.48%) IT Support
11 7 (3.04%) Desktop Support
12 6 (2.61%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (2.61%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.61%) LDAP
2 2 (0.87%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.87%) HTML
2 2 (0.87%) Jinja
2 2 (0.87%) JSON
2 2 (0.87%) Middleware
2 2 (0.87%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.87%) RESTful
2 2 (0.87%) XML
2 2 (0.87%) YANG
3 1 (0.43%) .NET
3 1 (0.43%) Kafka
3 1 (0.43%) LAMP
3 1 (0.43%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (0.43%) libvirt
3 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.52%) PKI
2 31 (13.48%) Data Centre
3 23 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.48%) CCTV
6 6 (2.61%) NHS
7 5 (2.17%) Clustering
7 5 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.30%) Digital Signage
9 3 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.30%) iPhone
9 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.43%) Windows
2 28 (12.17%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.96%) Mac OS
4 10 (4.35%) Linux
4 10 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.17%) Android
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.87%) CentOS
7 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.87%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (15.65%) Change Management
2 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (13.91%) ITIL
3 32 (13.91%) Migration
4 26 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (10.87%) Cloud Security
5 25 (10.87%) Network Architecture
6 23 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (9.57%) Customer Service
7 22 (9.57%) Network Design
8 21 (9.13%) Agile
8 21 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (8.70%) Threat Management
10 18 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (7.39%) Project Management
12 15 (6.52%) SIEM
13 13 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (5.65%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (5.65%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.52%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.22%) Python
3 8 (3.48%) SQL
4 5 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.87%) C#
5 2 (0.87%) Perl
6 1 (0.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) Java
6 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (22.17%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 36 (15.65%) CCNP
3 36 (15.65%) Degree
4 29 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 23 (10.00%) CCNA
6 15 (6.52%) CCIE
7 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.17%) CCDP
9 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.30%) MCSE
12 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.87%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.87%) CCIP
12 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.87%) PMP
12 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.96%) SLA
2 14 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (3.48%) QA
5 3 (1.30%) NCSC
6 2 (0.87%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.48%) Firmware
4 8 (3.48%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.87%) vSphere
8 1 (0.43%) Ceph
8 1 (0.43%) iptables
8 1 (0.43%) KVM
8 1 (0.43%) Lustre
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.43%) NFS
8 1 (0.43%) Samba
8 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (9.13%) FortiGate
2 10 (4.35%) Terraform
3 7 (3.04%) Ansible
4 6 (2.61%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.74%) SCCM
6 3 (1.30%) Kibana
6 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.30%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (1.30%) TrustSec
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.87%) Nessus
7 2 (0.87%) Puppet
7 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.87%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.43%) OPNET
8 1 (0.43%) SCOM
8 1 (0.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 122 (53.04%) Cisco
2 59 (25.65%) Palo Alto
3 45 (19.57%) Microsoft
4 35 (15.22%) Juniper
5 29 (12.61%) Fortinet
6 27 (11.74%) F5
7 19 (8.26%) CheckPoint
8 18 (7.83%) VMware
9 17 (7.39%) Meraki
10 11 (4.78%) Extreme Networks
10 11 (4.78%) Infoblox
11 10 (4.35%) Aruba
12 7 (3.04%) Citrix
12 7 (3.04%) Splunk
12 7 (3.04%) TOWER Software
13 6 (2.61%) Dell
13 6 (2.61%) Google
13 6 (2.61%) HP
13 6 (2.61%) Huawei
13 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow