WAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 80 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 +11
Contract jobs citing WAN 509 707 722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.46% 3.10% 2.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 20.17% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 434 471
10th Percentile £263 £263 £205
25th Percentile £350 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £411
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.42% +2.74%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £538
90th Percentile £710 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.23 £19.50 £17.32
Median hourly rate £24.87 £54.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.64% +143.69% +12.50%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £52.34
90th Percentile £67.02 £83.20 £56.49
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £57.33 £31.75
% change year-on-year -57.81% +80.57% +41.61%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,310 3,505 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.99% 15.37% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,883 2,194 2,716
10th Percentile £205 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% +5.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 304 248
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.39
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.04
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -4.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in the UK excluding London

WAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
South East -6 169 £458 +1.67% 54
Midlands +20 146 £375 +1.69% 52
West Midlands +22 136 £375 +7.07% 37
South West +6 90 £650 +35.06% 31
North of England -23 69 £400 - 94
Yorkshire +31 36 £463 +37.04% 33
North West -47 31 £350 -17.65% 56
East of England -23 18 £525 +54.98% 33
Scotland +7 15 £550 +10.00% 15
East Midlands -2 9 £543 +55.00% 15
Wales -2 4 £263 -19.23% 13
North East +8 2 £400 +30.61% 5
WAN
UK

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 16 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.39%) Confluence
3 2 (0.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.20%) Azure
2 37 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (6.29%) IaaS
3 32 (6.29%) PaaS
4 31 (6.09%) SaaS
5 30 (5.89%) Cloud Computing
6 24 (4.72%) AWS
7 5 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.79%) GCP
8 4 (0.79%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.59%) GitHub
9 3 (0.59%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.39%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.39%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.20%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 325 (63.85%) LAN
2 147 (28.88%) MPLS
3 143 (28.09%) VPN
4 119 (23.38%) Firewall
5 115 (22.59%) BGP
6 88 (17.29%) Wi-Fi
7 81 (15.91%) IPsec
8 68 (13.36%) SD-WAN
9 60 (11.79%) Junos
10 57 (11.20%) DNS
11 46 (9.04%) Wireless
12 45 (8.84%) DHCP
13 36 (7.07%) Cisco Firepower
14 34 (6.68%) Network Security
15 30 (5.89%) WLAN
16 27 (5.30%) SSL
17 24 (4.72%) OSPF
17 24 (4.72%) SAN
18 22 (4.32%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (4.32%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.38%) JIRA
1 7 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.20%) Hudson
General
1 113 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 79 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 55 (10.81%) Finance
4 43 (8.45%) Telecoms
5 30 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.95%) Aerospace
7 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.38%) Aeronautics
10 6 (1.18%) Back Office
10 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Legal
11 5 (0.98%) Military
11 5 (0.98%) Retail
12 4 (0.79%) Marketing
13 3 (0.59%) Automotive
13 3 (0.59%) Electronics
13 3 (0.59%) Local Government
13 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (34.38%) Architect
2 132 (25.93%) Network Architect
3 126 (24.75%) Network Engineer
4 48 (9.43%) WAN Engineer
5 41 (8.06%) Network Support
6 35 (6.88%) Senior
7 33 (6.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 32 (6.29%) Support Engineer
9 28 (5.50%) 3rd Line Support
10 27 (5.30%) Analyst
11 26 (5.11%) 2nd Line Support
12 20 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.93%) Technical Architect
13 18 (3.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 18 (3.54%) Senior Network Engineer
14 17 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.14%) Lead
16 13 (2.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 13 (2.55%) Project Manager
17 11 (2.16%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.36%) Web Services
2 11 (2.16%) Middleware
3 3 (0.59%) .NET
3 3 (0.59%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.59%) EDI
3 3 (0.59%) J2EE
3 3 (0.59%) XMPP
4 2 (0.39%) XML
4 2 (0.39%) XSLT
5 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.29%) Data Centre
2 64 (12.57%) PKI
3 16 (3.14%) Clustering
3 16 (3.14%) Public Cloud
3 16 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.95%) Operational Technology
5 14 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.55%) Client/Server
7 10 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.77%) NHS
9 8 (1.57%) CMDB
10 5 (0.98%) SCADA
11 4 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.79%) Replication
11 4 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.59%) AS400
12 3 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.59%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 106 (20.83%) Windows
2 53 (10.41%) Linux
3 39 (7.66%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.95%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.55%) Unix
6 11 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.79%) CentOS
10 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.59%) Android
11 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.59%) Debian
12 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.39%) zOS
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (14.54%) Network Management
2 65 (12.77%) Network Design
2 65 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (12.18%) Load Balancing
4 52 (10.22%) ITIL
5 45 (8.84%) Business Strategy
5 45 (8.84%) Project Delivery
6 44 (8.64%) Customer Requirements
7 37 (7.27%) Project Management
7 37 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
8 36 (7.07%) Migration
9 35 (6.88%) Zero Trust
10 32 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (5.89%) Agile
12 27 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (5.30%) Open Source
13 26 (5.11%) Analytics
14 25 (4.91%) Decision-Making
14 25 (4.91%) Network Architecture
15 23 (4.52%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (1.18%) SQL
3 5 (0.98%) Bash
3 5 (0.98%) Python
4 3 (0.59%) Java
5 1 (0.20%) Bicep
5 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 272 (53.44%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.45%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (14.34%) DV Cleared
5 51 (10.02%) Degree
6 46 (9.04%) CCNA
7 45 (8.84%) CCNP
8 14 (2.75%) CCIE
9 13 (2.55%) JNCIA
10 11 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.77%) CCIE Data Center
12 8 (1.57%) HND
12 8 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.98%) BC Cleared
13 5 (0.98%) CCSA
13 5 (0.98%) JNCIS
13 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.13%) SLA
2 19 (3.73%) QA
3 10 (1.96%) ISO 9000
4 5 (0.98%) NCSC
5 3 (0.59%) GDPR
5 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 64 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (11.98%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.93%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.93%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.16%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.57%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.98%) vSphere
8 4 (0.79%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.59%) XenApp
10 2 (0.39%) Firmware
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (5.50%) SCCM
2 26 (5.11%) Endace
3 13 (2.55%) FortiGate
4 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
4 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.96%) vCenter Server
5 8 (1.57%) Nagios
5 8 (1.57%) NetBackup
5 8 (1.57%) SCOM
6 6 (1.18%) Autotask
6 6 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.98%) OpenView
7 5 (0.98%) Terraform
7 5 (0.98%) VxRail
8 3 (0.59%) AppManager
8 3 (0.59%) Nessus
9 2 (0.39%) Ansible
9 2 (0.39%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 223 (43.81%) Cisco
2 178 (34.97%) Juniper
3 78 (15.32%) VMware
4 61 (11.98%) Microsoft
5 50 (9.82%) F5
6 47 (9.23%) Palo Alto
7 30 (5.89%) CheckPoint
8 29 (5.70%) Aruba
9 25 (4.91%) Fortinet
9 25 (4.91%) Meraki
10 21 (4.13%) Citrix
11 14 (2.75%) Zscaler
12 12 (2.36%) SolarWinds
13 11 (2.16%) 3Com
13 11 (2.16%) Brocade
14 10 (1.96%) Apple
14 10 (1.96%) NetApp
14 10 (1.96%) Nokia
15 9 (1.77%) HP
15 9 (1.77%) SAP