WAN Contracts in Edinburgh

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 89 116
Rank change year-on-year +30 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing WAN 16 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.98% 1.16% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.05% 14.02% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 2
10th Percentile £650 - £368
25th Percentile £659 £500 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +31.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £805 £588 £425
90th Percentile £830 £600 £433
Scotland median daily rate £688 £500 £323
% change year-on-year +37.50% +55.04% -1.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 107 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.37% 8.28% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 72 98
10th Percentile £178 £163 £261
25th Percentile £284 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +4.97% +7.74%
75th Percentile £646 £526 £575
90th Percentile £750 £575 £641
Scotland median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile £14.60 £24.08 £34.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £28.32 £41.56
Median hourly rate £18.27 £36.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% -22.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.19 £52.50
90th Percentile - £51.18 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £26.00 £10.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year +144.59% -77.62% -26.36%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) IaaS
2 3 (18.75%) iPaaS
2 3 (18.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) SAN
2 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
3 2 (12.50%) BGP
3 2 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) OSPF
3 2 (12.50%) VXLAN
3 2 (12.50%) Wireless
3 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) MPLS
4 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Technical Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) J2EE
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Client/Server
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) N-Tier
3 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) BYOD
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) IoT
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
2 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Awareness
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) SOA
3 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCNP
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (37.50%) F5
4 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
5 2 (12.50%) Arista
5 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
5 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 2 (12.50%) Databricks
5 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
5 2 (12.50%) McAfee
5 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds