WAN Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WAN over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 52 48
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing WAN 10 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.62% 0.38% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.66% 2.70% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £415 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £445 £538 £488
90th Percentile £471 - £555
East of England median daily rate £430 £525 £338
% change year-on-year -18.10% +55.56% -15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £12.86 -
% change year-on-year +133.28% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 79 74 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.62% 14.23% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 50
10th Percentile £355 £197 £270
25th Percentile £404 £235 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £515 £491 £494
90th Percentile £640 £588 £539
East of England median daily rate £490 £406 £475
% change year-on-year +20.62% -14.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 49 15
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £16.77
90th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £53.25
East of England median hourly rate £58.25 £21.46 £52.50
% change year-on-year +171.44% -59.12% +238.71%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Cambridgeshire

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Cambridgeshire

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Cambridgeshire

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Cambridge +9 4 £430 -18.10%
Huntingdon - 4 £475 -
Peterborough - 2 - - 3
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) LAN
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) WLAN
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (40.00%) NAS
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) PuTTY
4 2 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Network Management
2 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) NetApp
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Peregrine
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy