WAN Contracts in the East Midlands

Wide Area Network (WAN)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing WAN 9 27 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.16% 2.59% 3.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.78% 16.88% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 30
10th Percentile £419 £165 £181
25th Percentile £523 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £320 £350
Median % change year-on-year +96.88% -8.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £806 £441 £450
90th Percentile £1,013 £528 £550
England median daily rate £500 £463 £440
% change year-on-year +8.11% +5.11% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.90
25th Percentile - - £20.13
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £23.38
90th Percentile - - £23.60
England median hourly rate £24.69 £60.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -58.86% +130.77% +36.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 92 160 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.90% 15.36% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 123 121
10th Percentile £176 £231 £176
25th Percentile £313 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £363
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +22.76% +0.69%
75th Percentile £584 £622 £475
90th Percentile £653 £700 £550
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 15
10th Percentile £12.47 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.00 £14.82
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.26 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +11.30% +33.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £36.25 £23.00
90th Percentile - £40.25 £23.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WAN in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for WAN in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Leicestershire +6 4 £560 +124.00% 4
Derbyshire +1 2 - - 5
Lincolnshire +10 1 £350 +11.11%
Nottinghamshire +5 1 £800 +326.67% 6
WAN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (11.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) Ethereal
3 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
4 1 (11.11%) Multicast
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Network Support
2 2 (22.22%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Director
3 1 (11.11%) Market Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) OpenView
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) SAP