WAN Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 35 54
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing WAN 5 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.92% 3.79% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.09% 26.83% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - £453 £313
25th Percentile £513 £521 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £574 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +20.79% -3.80%
75th Percentile £538 £626 £519
90th Percentile - £641 £538
South East median daily rate £458 £488 £419
% change year-on-year -6.05% +16.42% -11.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 55 41 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.15% 14.14% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 87
10th Percentile £130 £140 £203
25th Percentile £388 £296 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +3.81% +3.96%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £555
90th Percentile £640 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.05% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 18
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.51
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
75th Percentile - - £44.06
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year -22.05% +7.78% +28.87%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

WAN job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN

WAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing WAN

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -16 5 £525 -4.98% 9
WAN
South East

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) IPv6
5 1 (20.00%) Multicast
5 1 (20.00%) SNMP
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
5 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CCDA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Arista
4 1 (20.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) VMware