WAN Contracts in Cumbria

Wide Area Network (WAN)
North West > Cumbria

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing WAN 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.77% 2.90% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.95% 7.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £430 -
25th Percentile £613 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.40% - -
75th Percentile - £588 -
90th Percentile - £610 -
North West median daily rate £425 £413 £350
% change year-on-year +3.03% +17.86% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 27 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 15.42% 39.13% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 7
10th Percentile £463 £425 -
25th Percentile £515 £446 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £486 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% +1.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 - £556
90th Percentile £672 £506 £575
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.39 - -
Median hourly rate £41.23 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.04%
75th Percentile £44.07 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Cumbria

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Cumbria

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Cumbria

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Barrow-in-Furness -16 4 £672 +34.40%
WAN
North West

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 5 (71.43%) Converged Networks
1 5 (71.43%) ISDN
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
1 5 (71.43%) Skype
1 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) NetScaler
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Voice Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Impact Assessments
1 5 (71.43%) Service Design
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Meraki
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto