WAN Contracts in Essex

Wide Area Network (WAN)
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 32 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -16
Contract jobs citing WAN 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.41% 2.03% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.71% 12.20% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £336 £268
25th Percentile £613 £338 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £350 £419
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -16.42% +4.69%
75th Percentile £638 £406 £481
90th Percentile - £496 £538
East of England median daily rate £525 £340 £400
% change year-on-year +54.41% -15.00% +55.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £13.15 - -
25th Percentile £13.59 - -
Median hourly rate £14.31 - £26.00
75th Percentile £15.04 - -
90th Percentile £15.47 - -
East of England median hourly rate £12.86 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 41 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 13.15% 16.67% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 34
10th Percentile £250 £120 £168
25th Percentile £391 £239 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £518 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +18.29% +88.65%
75th Percentile £563 £596 £572
90th Percentile £600 £649 £605
East of England median daily rate £410 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -13.68% +11.76% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £18.18
25th Percentile £10.42 - £18.55
Median hourly rate £11.64 - £20.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.29%
75th Percentile £13.59 - £27.81
90th Percentile £14.89 - £28.41
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £52.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -59.12% +238.71% -15.16%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for WAN in Essex

WAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for WAN in Essex

WAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for WAN in Essex

WAN
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Essex region over the 6 months to 9 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
Chelmsford - 2 - -
WAN
East of England

WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Service Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) IT4IT
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) SFIA
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ECDL
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 22301
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sparx