WAN Contracts in Oxfordshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 25 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing WAN 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.67% 2.00% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% 22.73% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £431 £428 £228
25th Percentile £458 - £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -
75th Percentile £538 - £533
90th Percentile - £510 £558
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -0.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 22 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.78% 8.80% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 24
10th Percentile £170 £213 £138
25th Percentile £363 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +38.46% +20.93%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £503
90th Percentile £538 £525 £800
South East median daily rate £488 £486 £450
% change year-on-year +0.26% +8.06% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +145.00% -58.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Oxfordshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +8 2 £463 +2.78% 2
Banbury - 2 £525 -
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Server Management
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) PaperCut
3 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Aruba
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Meraki
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Sage
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) WatchGuard
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto