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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 96 71
Rank change year-on-year +49 -25 -5
Contract jobs citing WAN 28 8 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.83% 0.50% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 7.92% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 24
10th Percentile £225 £264 £241
25th Percentile £313 £316 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £351 £456
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -23.18% +46.00%
75th Percentile £541 £431 £556
90th Percentile £609 £475 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £313 £450
% change year-on-year +60.80% -30.56% +18.42%
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% -9.54%

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 98 101 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.91% 6.35% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 82 130
10th Percentile £266 £319 £183
25th Percentile £316 £363 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £600 £684 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -2.11% +8.57% +2.94%
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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 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 10 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
Leeds +34 15 £463 +27.50% 11
Wakefield - 11 - - 1
Bradford +2 2 £295 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Google Sheets
3 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (78.57%) LAN
2 14 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.14%) DHCP
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.14%) Wireless
4 1 (3.57%) Broadband
4 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.57%) PSTN
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) LAN Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) WAN Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Network Technician
4 1 (3.57%) Project Officer
4 1 (3.57%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) XML
1 2 (7.14%) XSLT
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.14%) EPoS
4 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.57%) LIMS
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.86%) Linux
4 3 (10.71%) Unix
5 2 (7.14%) Debian
5 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.14%) zOS
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (39.29%) Break/Fix
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Agile
5 2 (7.14%) Architectural Design
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.14%) E-Commerce
5 2 (7.14%) High Availability
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.14%) Logistics
5 2 (7.14%) Network Architecture
5 2 (7.14%) Network Design
5 2 (7.14%) Network Management
5 2 (7.14%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Project Management
5 2 (7.14%) SOA
5 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CCNA
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 2 (7.14%) CCENT
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
2 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Cisco
2 14 (50.00%) Aruba
3 13 (46.43%) Juniper
3 13 (46.43%) Meraki
4 12 (42.86%) Citrix
5 11 (39.29%) 3Com
5 11 (39.29%) Brocade
6 4 (14.29%) VMware
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.14%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.57%) F5
8 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.57%) Google
8 1 (3.57%) HP
8 1 (3.57%) NetApp
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (3.57%) Sophos