WAN Contracts in Birmingham

Wide Area Network (WAN)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 32 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing WAN 48 54 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.43% 6.10% 4.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.09% 36.73% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 29
10th Percentile £241 £276 -
25th Percentile £263 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £351 £372
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -5.78% -12.47%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £425
90th Percentile £656 £493 £450
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -35.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £14.25 -
90th Percentile £17.57 £14.70 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £13.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -35.00% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 133 147 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.83% 16.61% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 70 101
10th Percentile £200 £313 £163
25th Percentile £300 £383 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £500
90th Percentile £608 £731 £593
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £19.95 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -25.00% +48.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.84% +8.82% +13.33%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Birmingham

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
3 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (52.08%) MPLS
2 20 (41.67%) BGP
2 20 (41.67%) IPsec
3 18 (37.50%) LAN
4 13 (27.08%) VPN
5 9 (18.75%) Firewall
6 8 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (12.50%) Junos
8 5 (10.42%) Ethernet
9 4 (8.33%) DNS
9 4 (8.33%) Internet
9 4 (8.33%) SD-WAN
9 4 (8.33%) VLAN
10 3 (6.25%) ADSL
10 3 (6.25%) PSTN
10 3 (6.25%) VoIP
11 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (4.17%) SDH
11 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
12 1 (2.08%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Aeronautics
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Network Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) WAN Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Support Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (14.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Architect
7 5 (10.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Network Support
8 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
9 3 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 3 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Coordinator
9 3 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Network Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) PKI
2 6 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.25%) Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Load Balancing
2 7 (14.58%) Agile
3 5 (10.42%) Change Control
3 5 (10.42%) Change Management
3 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 4 (8.33%) ITIL
4 4 (8.33%) Order Management
4 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 4 (8.33%) Waterfall
5 3 (6.25%) CRM
5 3 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.25%) Quality Management
5 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery Management
5 3 (6.25%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 3 (6.25%) Validation
5 3 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (52.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.33%) BC Cleared
5 4 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.33%) CCNA
5 4 (8.33%) CCNP
6 2 (4.17%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) SLA
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.25%) Autotask
2 3 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) OpenView
3 1 (2.08%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) Juniper
2 15 (31.25%) Cisco
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.50%) F5
5 5 (10.42%) Aruba
6 4 (8.33%) VMware
7 3 (6.25%) Apple
7 3 (6.25%) BT
7 3 (6.25%) Datto
7 3 (6.25%) Openreach
8 2 (4.17%) Databricks
8 2 (4.17%) Fujitsu
9 1 (2.08%) Commvault
9 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.08%) IBM
9 1 (2.08%) NetApp
9 1 (2.08%) Nokia
9 1 (2.08%) Sophos