WAN Contracts in the Channel Islands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > Channel Islands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Channel Islands 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 21.05% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £743 - -
75th Percentile £779 - -
90th Percentile £814 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Channel Islands

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 the Channel Islands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 36.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £754 - -
90th Percentile £799 - -
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.96% +2.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Channel Islands

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the Channel Islands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Channel Islands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the Channel Islands.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the Channel Islands

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Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Jersey - 4 £743 -
WAN
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Channel Islands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Network Performance Management
1 3 (75.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki