WAN Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer)
England > Midlands

The median Wide Area Network Engineer (WAN Engineer) daily rate in the Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 143 195
Rank change year-on-year +51 +52 -48
Contract jobs requiring a WAN Engineer 47 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.72% 0.64% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.68% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £248 £313 -
25th Percentile £274 £334 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £294
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +27.66% +106.14%
75th Percentile £375 £425 £431
90th Percentile £376 £456 £443
England median daily rate £350 £413 £438
% change year-on-year -15.15% -5.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,509 3,258 4,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.60% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,291 3,547
10th Percentile £213 £223 £208
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 175
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.74% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

WAN Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured WAN Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Engineer in the Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for WAN Engineer in the Midlands

WAN Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN Engineer in the Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for WAN Engineer in the Midlands

WAN Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +59 47 £350 -17.65% 5
WAN Engineer
England

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, WAN Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring WAN Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) WAN
2 42 (89.36%) Juniper
2 42 (89.36%) Security Cleared
3 41 (87.23%) IPsec
4 40 (85.11%) MPLS
5 39 (82.98%) BGP
6 37 (78.72%) PKI
7 27 (57.45%) VPN
8 25 (53.19%) Load Balancing
8 25 (53.19%) Junos
9 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
10 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
11 8 (17.02%) Cisco
12 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
13 5 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (10.64%) Network Monitoring
13 5 (10.64%) Security Monitoring
13 5 (10.64%) Proactive Monitoring
13 5 (10.64%) CCNP
13 5 (10.64%) DNS
13 5 (10.64%) ISO 9000
13 5 (10.64%) Windows
13 5 (10.64%) Linux
13 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (6.38%) Change Management
14 3 (6.38%) CCNA
14 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (6.38%) Fujitsu
15 2 (4.26%) Cisco IOS
15 2 (4.26%) Project Delivery

WAN Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 47 (100.00%) WAN
2 41 (87.23%) IPsec
3 40 (85.11%) MPLS
4 39 (82.98%) BGP
5 27 (57.45%) VPN
6 25 (53.19%) Junos
7 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
8 5 (10.64%) DNS
9 2 (4.26%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (4.26%) Firewall
9 2 (4.26%) LAN
10 1 (2.13%) CATAPAN
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (2.13%) HSRP
10 1 (2.13%) OSPF
10 1 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (2.13%) VLAN
General
1 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
2 2 (4.26%) Aviation
3 1 (2.13%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 37 (78.72%) PKI
2 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Load Balancing
2 5 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (10.64%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (10.64%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (10.64%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (6.38%) Change Management
4 2 (4.26%) ITIL
4 2 (4.26%) Mentoring
4 2 (4.26%) Project Delivery
5 1 (2.13%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (2.13%) High Availability
5 1 (2.13%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.13%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (2.13%) Network Design
5 1 (2.13%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (2.13%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 42 (89.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) CCNP
3 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.38%) CCNA
5 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.26%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) ISO 9000
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 42 (89.36%) Juniper
2 8 (17.02%) Cisco
3 3 (6.38%) Fujitsu
4 1 (2.13%) F5
4 1 (2.13%) McAfee