WAAS Contracts in the North West

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for WAAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAAS over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 158 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Contract jobs citing WAAS 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.093% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 0.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £285 £360 -
25th Percentile £300 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £415 - -
England median daily rate £325 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -20.00% +8.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

WAAS 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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 374 438 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.60% 13.59% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 320 336
10th Percentile £195 £288 £181
25th Percentile £320 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +11.73% +21.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £12.43
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £16.29
Median hourly rate £33.62 £31.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +71.23% -61.52%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £37.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £52.13 £63.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

WAAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing WAAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for WAAS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAAS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for WAAS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAAS in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAAS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAAS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for WAAS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cheshire +7 7 £325 -18.75%
WAAS
England

WAAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft