WAN Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing WAN 1 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.58% 8.91% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 28.13% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Farnborough

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 32 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.28% 31.68% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile £300 £350 -
25th Percentile £389 £513 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £604 £275
Median % change year-on-year -23.01% +119.64% -50.00%
75th Percentile £487 £666 £366
90th Percentile £601 £725 £490
Hampshire median daily rate £510 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -14.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

WAN job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing WAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing WAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing WAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA