WAN Contracts in the West Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 46 88
Rank change year-on-year +30 +42 -29
Contract jobs citing WAN 155 105 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.00% 4.46% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.85% 29.58% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 51 55
10th Percentile £263 £263 £225
25th Percentile £313 £286 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £488 £444 £450
90th Percentile £738 £525 £588
England median daily rate £500 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £13.25 - -
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £14.25 -
90th Percentile - £14.70 -
England median hourly rate £24.69 £61.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -59.53% +134.62% +35.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 389 355 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.08% 15.07% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 219 265
10th Percentile £200 £263 £164
25th Percentile £307 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +23.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £503
90th Percentile £689 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in the West Midlands

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Solihull 0 67 £375 +7.14% 8
Birmingham +16 55 £350 -0.14% 13
Warwickshire +19 21 £750 +42.86% 8
Worcestershire +12 5 £650 +52.94% 2
Shropshire +23 4 £300 -20.00% 3
WAN
England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.16%) Azure
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.29%) AWS
3 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 99 (63.87%) MPLS
2 81 (52.26%) BGP
3 80 (51.61%) IPsec
4 66 (42.58%) VPN
5 62 (40.00%) LAN
6 50 (32.26%) Junos
7 23 (14.84%) SD-WAN
8 18 (11.61%) DNS
8 18 (11.61%) Firewall
9 13 (8.39%) DHCP
9 13 (8.39%) VoIP
9 13 (8.39%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (7.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (5.81%) Internet
11 9 (5.81%) PBX
11 9 (5.81%) WLAN
12 8 (5.16%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (4.52%) ADSL
13 7 (4.52%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (4.52%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 23 (14.84%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.97%) Telecoms
3 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.16%) Finance
5 6 (3.87%) Back Office
6 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.29%) Aviation
7 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.65%) Local Government
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (29.68%) WAN Engineer
2 42 (27.10%) Network Engineer
3 38 (24.52%) Network Support
4 28 (18.06%) Architect
5 26 (16.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 25 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
7 21 (13.55%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (13.55%) Support Engineer
8 19 (12.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 19 (12.26%) Network Architect
9 11 (7.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Network Support Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Administrator
13 6 (3.87%) Analyst
13 6 (3.87%) Support Analyst
13 6 (3.87%) Technical Support
13 6 (3.87%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.81%) Web Services
2 2 (1.29%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (43.87%) PKI
2 22 (14.19%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.58%) AS400
5 3 (1.94%) Clustering
5 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.19%) Windows
2 12 (7.74%) Linux
3 8 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.58%) CentOS
4 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.94%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.19%) Load Balancing
2 26 (16.77%) Network Design
3 17 (10.97%) ITIL
4 13 (8.39%) Network Architecture
5 12 (7.74%) Incident Management
5 12 (7.74%) Project Delivery
6 11 (7.10%) Analytics
6 11 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (6.45%) Architectural Design
7 10 (6.45%) Change Management
7 10 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (5.81%) Change Control
8 9 (5.81%) Data Analytics
8 9 (5.81%) Mentoring
8 9 (5.81%) Performance Management
8 9 (5.81%) Programme Management
8 9 (5.81%) SOA
8 9 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (5.81%) Storage Management
9 8 (5.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.52%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.58%) Bash
Qualifications
1 91 (58.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 26 (16.77%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (11.61%) CCNP
5 12 (7.74%) CCNA
6 9 (5.81%) CCIE
6 9 (5.81%) CCIE Data Center
7 8 (5.16%) Degree
8 5 (3.23%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.58%) BC Cleared
9 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.94%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
1 7 (4.52%) SLA
2 5 (3.23%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 12 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.52%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.58%) VMware Server
5 4 (2.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.58%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.94%) Autotask
3 3 (1.94%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.94%) OpenView
3 3 (1.94%) SCCM
4 1 (0.65%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (56.77%) Juniper
2 51 (32.90%) Cisco
3 14 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.03%) VMware
4 6 (3.87%) Aruba
4 6 (3.87%) F5
4 6 (3.87%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.87%) SAP
5 5 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.23%) Infoblox
5 5 (3.23%) Symantec
5 5 (3.23%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.94%) Apple
6 3 (1.94%) BT
6 3 (1.94%) Datto
6 3 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.94%) Fujitsu
6 3 (1.94%) McAfee
6 3 (1.94%) Openreach
7 2 (1.29%) Databricks