WAN Contracts in West Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 97 78
Rank change year-on-year +47 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing WAN 25 7 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.52% 0.43% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.60% 6.54% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 24
10th Percentile £313 £251 £241
25th Percentile £338 £322 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £456
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -12.27% +32.25%
75th Percentile £563 £531 £556
90th Percentile £615 £550 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £505 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +68.33% -33.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.87 £27.25 £17.64
% change year-on-year -8.73% +54.48% -7.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 107 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.48% 6.57% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 85 128
10th Percentile £273 £315 £179
25th Percentile £319 £369 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £550
90th Percentile £640 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £453 £475 £427
% change year-on-year -4.63% +11.24% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.02
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% +0.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £33.75 £21.32
90th Percentile £16.66 - £23.53
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £18.20
% change year-on-year +71.87% -41.58% +3.97%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Leeds +35 13 £463 +15.55% 9
Wakefield - 11 - - 1
Bradford +2 1 £375 -
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (88.00%) LAN
2 13 (52.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (12.00%) DHCP
3 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 2 (8.00%) SAN
4 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
4 2 (8.00%) Wireless
5 1 (4.00%) Broadband
5 1 (4.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.00%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) LAN Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) IT Technician
4 1 (4.00%) Network Technician
4 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) LDAP
1 2 (8.00%) XML
1 2 (8.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.00%) EPoS
3 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.00%) LIMS
4 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
5 2 (8.00%) Debian
5 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.00%) zOS
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) Break/Fix
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.00%) Agile
5 2 (8.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.00%) High Availability
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.00%) Logistics
5 2 (8.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (8.00%) Network Design
5 2 (8.00%) Network Management
5 2 (8.00%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (8.00%) RBAC
5 2 (8.00%) SOA
5 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) CCNA
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CCENT
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) MCSA
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Nessus
2 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Cisco
2 14 (56.00%) Aruba
3 13 (52.00%) Juniper
3 13 (52.00%) Meraki
4 12 (48.00%) Citrix
5 11 (44.00%) 3Com
5 11 (44.00%) Brocade
6 5 (20.00%) VMware
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
9 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
9 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (4.00%) HP
9 1 (4.00%) NetApp
9 1 (4.00%) Oracle
9 1 (4.00%) Sophos