WAN Contracts in England

Wide Area Network (WAN)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 132 186
Rank change year-on-year +24 +54 -12
Contract jobs citing WAN 767 996 1,150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.07% 1.99% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.53% 16.30% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 626 746
10th Percentile £263 £250 £210
25th Percentile £350 £348 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £545
90th Percentile £738 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 46
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.59 £21.81 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.69 £61.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.53% +134.62% +35.06%
75th Percentile £40.00 £80.25 £47.78
90th Percentile £75.24 £83.48 £54.08
UK median hourly rate £24.69 £61.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -59.53% +134.62% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,938 6,112 7,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 12.24% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 4,015 5,213
10th Percentile £206 £237 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 434 305
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in England

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in England

WAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WAN in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WAN in England

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in England

WAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WAN in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for WAN in England

WAN
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +15 227 £500 -4.76% 129
Midlands +29 166 £375 +3.45% 61
South East -2 165 £450 - 73
West Midlands +30 155 £375 +7.14% 45
South West +33 101 £650 +33.33% 34
North of England -11 75 £450 +20.00% 86
Yorkshire +38 38 £513 +64.00% 27
North West -30 35 £425 +3.03% 54
East of England -17 18 £525 +50.00% 33
East Midlands 0 9 £630 +80.00% 15
North East +12 2 £400 -15.79% 5
WAN
UK

WAN
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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.39%) nginx
3 3 (0.39%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 38 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.13%) RMDS
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 103 (13.43%) Azure
2 65 (8.47%) AWS
3 62 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
5 36 (4.69%) IaaS
6 34 (4.43%) SaaS
7 33 (4.30%) PaaS
8 23 (3.00%) GCP
9 12 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 6 (0.78%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.65%) Cloudflare
11 5 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.39%) GitHub
12 3 (0.39%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.39%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.39%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 503 (65.58%) LAN
2 252 (32.86%) Firewall
3 229 (29.86%) VPN
4 194 (25.29%) BGP
5 191 (24.90%) MPLS
6 149 (19.43%) SD-WAN
7 119 (15.51%) IPsec
7 119 (15.51%) Wi-Fi
8 118 (15.38%) Wireless
9 102 (13.30%) DNS
10 92 (11.99%) OSPF
11 80 (10.43%) DHCP
12 73 (9.52%) Network Security
13 63 (8.21%) WLAN
14 61 (7.95%) Junos
15 52 (6.78%) Cisco ASA
16 47 (6.13%) VoIP
17 46 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
18 41 (5.35%) TCP/IP
19 39 (5.08%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.65%) MySQL
3 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (0.65%) JIRA
4 2 (0.26%) Git
5 1 (0.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
General
1 173 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 113 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 95 (12.39%) Finance
4 60 (7.82%) Telecoms
5 58 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 13 (1.69%) Banking
9 12 (1.56%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.17%) Legal
12 8 (1.04%) Military
13 7 (0.91%) Aeronautics
13 7 (0.91%) Back Office
14 6 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.78%) Marketing
14 6 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.65%) Electronics
15 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (29.07%) Network Engineer
2 203 (26.47%) Architect
3 152 (19.82%) Network Architect
4 66 (8.60%) WAN Engineer
5 55 (7.17%) Senior
6 50 (6.52%) Support Engineer
7 43 (5.61%) Network Support
8 36 (4.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 34 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support
9 34 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (3.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 30 (3.91%) 3rd Line Support
10 30 (3.91%) Senior Network Engineer
11 27 (3.52%) Analyst
11 27 (3.52%) Lead
12 25 (3.26%) Cisco Engineer
12 25 (3.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 22 (2.87%) Consultant
14 21 (2.74%) Network Specialist
15 19 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.43%) LDAP
2 9 (1.17%) Web Services
3 7 (0.91%) Middleware
4 6 (0.78%) EDI
5 5 (0.65%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.65%) JSON
6 4 (0.52%) XML
7 3 (0.39%) XMPP
8 2 (0.26%) HTML
8 2 (0.26%) Jinja
8 2 (0.26%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.26%) RESTful
8 2 (0.26%) XSLT
8 2 (0.26%) YANG
9 1 (0.13%) .NET
9 1 (0.13%) Kafka
9 1 (0.13%) LAMP
9 1 (0.13%) LAPP Stack
9 1 (0.13%) libvirt
9 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 111 (14.47%) PKI
3 31 (4.04%) Video Conferencing
4 23 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.74%) Clustering
6 20 (2.61%) Driving Licence
7 18 (2.35%) NHS
8 17 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.83%) Operational Technology
10 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.56%) CCTV
12 11 (1.43%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.91%) CMDB
15 5 (0.65%) Replication
15 5 (0.65%) SCADA
15 5 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
16 4 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 155 (20.21%) Windows
2 69 (9.00%) Windows Server
3 60 (7.82%) Linux
4 29 (3.78%) Windows 10
5 25 (3.26%) Mac OS
6 17 (2.22%) Unix
7 15 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.56%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.30%) Android
11 8 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.78%) CentOS
13 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.39%) Debian
15 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.26%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (11.86%) ITIL
3 89 (11.60%) Network Design
4 79 (10.30%) Network Management
5 76 (9.91%) Load Balancing
6 72 (9.39%) Migration
7 61 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 58 (7.56%) Change Management
9 53 (6.91%) Project Management
10 52 (6.78%) Network Architecture
11 51 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
12 48 (6.26%) Project Delivery
13 47 (6.13%) Customer Service
14 44 (5.74%) Agile
14 44 (5.74%) Customer Requirements
15 43 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
16 42 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (5.35%) Business Strategy
18 39 (5.08%) Zero Trust
19 30 (3.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.22%) PowerShell
2 23 (3.00%) Python
3 16 (2.09%) SQL
4 6 (0.78%) Bash
5 5 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.52%) Java
7 2 (0.26%) C#
7 2 (0.26%) Perl
8 1 (0.13%) C
8 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 334 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 148 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 142 (18.51%) Cisco Certification
4 91 (11.86%) CCNP
5 89 (11.60%) Degree
6 82 (10.69%) DV Cleared
7 77 (10.04%) CCNA
8 31 (4.04%) CCIE
9 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.09%) JNCIA
11 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.17%) CCIE Data Center
13 8 (1.04%) BC Cleared
13 8 (1.04%) HND
13 8 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (0.78%) CCDP
14 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.78%) JNCIS
15 5 (0.65%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.35%) SLA
2 22 (2.87%) QA
3 19 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.30%) ISO 9000
4 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (1.04%) NCSC
6 4 (0.52%) GDPR
7 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) COBIT
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (12.91%) Active Directory
2 76 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (3.65%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.87%) VMware NSX
5 21 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.30%) Firmware
7 10 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
8 8 (1.04%) vSphere
9 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.52%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.39%) XenApp
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) iptables
12 1 (0.13%) NFS
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 39 (5.08%) SCCM
2 34 (4.43%) FortiGate
3 25 (3.26%) Endace
4 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (2.22%) Terraform
5 15 (1.96%) Ansible
6 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (1.04%) Nagios
8 8 (1.04%) NetBackup
8 8 (1.04%) SCOM
9 6 (0.78%) Autotask
9 6 (0.78%) VxRail
10 5 (0.65%) Nessus
10 5 (0.65%) OpenView
11 3 (0.39%) AppManager
11 3 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 375 (48.89%) Cisco
2 225 (29.34%) Juniper
3 106 (13.82%) Microsoft
4 103 (13.43%) Palo Alto
5 100 (13.04%) VMware
6 72 (9.39%) F5
7 61 (7.95%) Fortinet
8 50 (6.52%) CheckPoint
9 41 (5.35%) Aruba
10 40 (5.22%) Meraki
11 27 (3.52%) Citrix
12 23 (3.00%) HP
12 23 (3.00%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.74%) Zscaler
14 16 (2.09%) Infoblox
15 13 (1.69%) SAP
15 13 (1.69%) ServiceNow
16 12 (1.56%) Nokia
16 12 (1.56%) Splunk
17 11 (1.43%) Apple