WAN Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Wide Area Network (WAN)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing WAN 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.80% 0.86% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.70% 11.76% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £330 £563 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £575 £290
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +98.28% -27.50%
75th Percentile £340 £588 £295
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £250 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -56.52% +53.23% -6.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 17 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.24% 7.33% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 19
10th Percentile £187 £213 £248
25th Percentile £253 £244 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £381 £340
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +12.13% -24.44%
75th Percentile £298 £420 £531
90th Percentile £369 £513 £625
South Wales median daily rate £290 £275 £350
% change year-on-year +5.45% -21.43% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £46.41 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -2.29% - -

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

WAN job vacancy trend in Cardiff

WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing WAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Modbus
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) 3D Printing
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Enablement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco