WAN Optimisation Contracts

WAN Optimization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WAN Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 701 854
Rank change year-on-year +115 +153 -156
Contract jobs citing WAN Optimisation 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £476 - £577
25th Percentile £478 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £580
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -22.41% +16.58%
75th Percentile £509 - £583
90th Percentile £519 - £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

WAN Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

WAN Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK

WAN Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK

WAN Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN Optimisation in the UK

WAN Optimisation
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +128 4 £488 +8.33% 1
South East - 4 £488 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £488 - 1
Work from Home +125 1 - -

WAN Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) FCoE
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) Junos
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) NGFW
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Adaptive Security
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Information Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds