WAN Specialist Contracts in England

Wide Area Network Specialist (WAN Specialist)
UK > England

The median Wide Area Network Specialist (WAN Specialist) daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 539 -
Rank change year-on-year +61 - -
Contract jobs requiring a WAN Specialist 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £479 £551 -
25th Percentile £488 £609 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% - -
75th Percentile £641 £809 -
90th Percentile £750 £864 -
UK median daily rate £513 £713 -
% change year-on-year -28.07% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

WAN Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured WAN Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WAN Specialist in England

WAN Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WAN Specialist in England

WAN Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN Specialist in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WAN Specialist in England

WAN Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN Specialist in England

WAN Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
London +48 8 £513 -28.07%
WAN Specialist
UK

WAN Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, WAN Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring WAN Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
2 7 (87.50%) BGP
3 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (75.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
4 5 (62.50%) OSPF
4 5 (62.50%) VPN
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) IPsec
6 3 (37.50%) Analytics
6 3 (37.50%) Network Security
7 2 (25.00%) VPLS
7 2 (25.00%) Network Management
7 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (25.00%) Multicast
7 2 (25.00%) IGMP
7 2 (25.00%) Network Design
7 2 (25.00%) CCIE
7 2 (25.00%) CCNP
7 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (25.00%) Terraform
7 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

WAN Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
2 7 (87.50%) BGP
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
3 6 (75.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (62.50%) OSPF
4 5 (62.50%) VPN
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) IPsec
6 3 (37.50%) Network Security
7 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
7 2 (25.00%) IGMP
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) Multicast
7 2 (25.00%) VPLS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Fortinet